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Co-op, Ocado See Sales Up By A Fifth In UK Market: Kantar

UK retailers The Co-operative and Ocado have seen their sales rise by a fifth (+20.0% and +19.4%) respectively, according to the latest market share data f...

UK Retail Readies For Coronavirus Lockdown Easing With New Guidance

The British retail industry's lobby group and its main trade union issued new guidance to retailers in preparation for an anticipated easing by the governm...

Paper Products Firm Essity Sees Sales Soar In Q1 As Shoppers Stock Up

Swedish paper products and hygiene firm Essity said that its net sales increased 10.0% in the first quarter of its financial year, to SEK 33.7 billion (&eu...

Tesco 'Would Likely Be Receptive' To Offer For Central European Business, Analyst Suggests

Tesco would likely be receptive to an 'attractive unsolicited offer' for its Central European operations, should one materialise, a leading retail analyst...

Premier Foods Sees Profit At Top End Of Market Estimates

Premier Foods has said that it expects annual trading profit to be at the top end of market expectations, as the coronavirus pandemic fuelled a short-term...

Russia's X5 Retail Group Sees Like-For-Like Sales Up In First Quarter

Russia's X5 Retail Group has announced a 5.7% increase in like-for-like sales in the first quarter of its financial year. Net retail sales at the group,...

Dagrofa 'Well On Its Way' To Achieving Business Turnaround

Danish retailer Dagrofa has posted an operating profit of DKK 200 million (€26.8 million) in full-year 2019, which is up DKK 87 million on the previou...

UK Sees ‘Historic Drop’ In Retail Sales In March: BRC-KPMG

Retail sales in the UK decreased by 4.3% in the five weeks to 4 April, compared to a drop of 1.8% in the same period last year, according to the latest dat...