In the Media

• 09/01/2019 - Retail Gazette

  Grocers rake in record £29.3bn Christmas sales

  
  

  Grocers around the UK have posted record sales of £29.3 billion over the crucial Christmas trading period, bucking the challenging conditions that plague other retailers.
  
  According to insights firm Kantar Worldpanel, for the 12 weeks ending December 31, a lower inflation rate of 1.3 per cent affected overall grocery sales.
  
  However, consumers still spent £450 million on groceries compared to the previous year in the same period.

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• 09/01/2019 - New York Times

  Asda the Best Christmas Performer of UK's Big Four Grocers-Kantar Worldpanel

  
  

  Asda was the best performer of Britain's big four supermarket groups in the key Christmas quarter, though all lost market share to discounters Aldi [ALDIEI.UL] and Lidl, industry data showed on Tuesday.
  
  Market researcher Kantar Worldpanel said sales at Walmart's Asda, which has agreed to be taken over by Sainsbury's, rose 0.7 percent in the 12 weeks to Dec. 30. Market leader Tesco's sales rose 0.6 percent, whiles sales at No. 4 Morrisons edged up 0.1 percent. Sales at Sainsbury's fell 0.4 percent.

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• 08/01/2019 - Reuters

  Asda the best Christmas performer of UK's big four grocers - Kantar Worldpanel

  
  

  Asda was the best performer of Britain’s big four supermarket groups in the key Christmas quarter, though all lost market share to discounters Aldi [ALDIEI.UL] and Lidl, industry data showed on Tuesday.
  
  Market researcher Kantar Worldpanel said sales at Walmart’s Asda, which has agreed to be taken over by Sainsbury’s, rose 0.7 percent in the 12 weeks to Dec. 30. Market leader Tesco’s sales rose 0.6 percent, whiles sales at No. 4 Morrisons edged up 0.1 percent. Sales at Sainsbury’s fell 0.4 percent.

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• 08/01/2019 - Financial Times

  UK’s organic food industry seeks European-style growth

  
  

  The terms “organic” and “sustainable” are now prominent on the menus of fashionable restaurants and food shops in the UK, even though a few decades ago they were hardly used. Yet organic products are still a small fraction of the overall food market, and regular buyers remain largely an affluent few.
  
  Guy Singh-Watson, the founder of one of the UK’s largest organic vegetable box delivery companies, hopes this will change. “I just hate the fact that the food choices we make have become defining of status and class,” he says.
  

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• 08/01/2019 - European SuperMarket Magazine

  Two Thirds Of UK Shoppers Visited Aldi Or Lidl Over Christmas: Kantar Worldpanel

  
  

  Two thirds of UK shoppers visited an Aldi or Lidl outlet in the 12 week period to 30 December, according to Kantar Worldpanel’s market share figures for the period.
  
  Aldi posted sales growth of 10.4% for the period, while Lidl saw growth of 9.4%, as the discounters outperformed their peers in the busiest shopping period of the year.
  
  Aldi and Lidl hold 7.4% and 5.4% of the UK market respectively, according to Kantar Worldpanel.

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• 07/01/2019 - The Guardian

  In a lather: sales of barred soap are up – but is it better at cleaning than a shower gel?

  
  

  News that, in a bid to cut down on plastic, consumers are turning back to barred soap for personal hygiene, has the market analysts who notice such things all aglow. “For the first time this century,” Kantar Worldpanel’s strategic insight director, Tim Nancholas, recently said, “barred soap is making a return.”
  
  Right up there on the list of easy ways to reduce your plastic use is switching from shower gel to solid soap. Bea Johnson,says she buys bars of Good Soap at Whole Foods to serve as shampoo, facial cleanser, handwash, body wash and shaving agent.

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