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Author: Leigh Sparks
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Category Archives: Market Shares
UK Grocery Market Share 1997-2019
One of the by-products of our data rich age, is that more data is available ever more frequently. Our attention spans have collapsed and if we don’t get a weekly, daily or hourly update then we begin to panic. And … Continue reading
Posted in Aldi, Asda, CMA, Competition, Competition and Markets Authority, Food, Food Retailing, Grocery, Lidl, Longitudinal Data, Market Shares, Morrisons, Retail Change, Retailers, Retailing, Sainsbury, Tesco, Uncategorized
Tagged Aldi, Asda, CMA, Concentration Ratio, Data, Discounters, Food retailing, Kantar Worldpanel, Lidl, Market share, Morrisons, Retail, Sainsbury, Tesco, UK Grocery, UK Grocery market
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Asda/Sainsbury’s vs the CMA: The verdict
If this was a boxing match, then the result was a clear knockout, perhaps to the surprise of some onlookers. As one of my followers on Twitter noted, it is nice to see a regulator regulating. In this case, it … Continue reading
Posted in Asda, CMA, Competition, Competition and Markets Authority, Consumer Choice, Consumers, Convenience stores, Cooperatives, Food Retailing, Internet shopping, Lidl, Market Shares, Regulation, Retail Change, Retail Policy, Retailing, Sainsbury, Supermarket, Uncategorized, Waitrose
Tagged Aldi, Asda, CMA, Competition, Consumers, Convenieince Stores, Discounters, Food retailing, Lidl, Market Shares, Online, Petrol, Retailing, Sainsbury's, Supermarkets, Tesco
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Retail Disruptors – the spectacular rise and impact of the hard discounters
The rise of the hard discounters is a well-observed phenomenon of continuing research endeavour and commentary. In the UK, as is well known, Aldi and Lidl have captured considerable market share over the last decade. ‘Retail Disruptors’ by Jan-Benedict Steenkamp … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Aldi, Competition, Consumer Choice, Discounters, Food Retailing, Jack's, Lidl, Market Shares, Pricing, Retail Change, Retailers, Strategy, Uncategorized
Tagged Aldi, Book, Competition, Consumer Choice, Discounters, Disruptors, Food retailing, Jack's, Lidl, Market share, Pricing, Strategy
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Challenging Times in Food Retailing, continued
The pressures in the food retailing sector – especially for the ‘legacy’ operators – are well known and continue to build. The rise of the discounters (see the last post), the continuing growth of the internet and the consumer demand … Continue reading
Posted in Aldi, Asda, CMA, Competition, Competition and Markets Authority, Consumer Change, Discounters, Food Retailing, Internet shopping, Jack's, Lidl, Market Shares, Mergers, Networks, Store Closures, Tesco
Tagged Aldi, Asda, CMA, Discounters, Grocery, Jack's, Lidl, Market share, Mergers, Sainsbury, Tesco
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Twenty One Years of UK Grocery Market Share
UK Grocery Market Shares are a little dependent on who you believe. In my case, I have chosen one group (initially TNS, subsequently taken over by Kantar) and stuck with them. I have wanted not to focus on the short-term … Continue reading
Posted in Aldi, Asda, Discounters, Food Retailing, Lidl, Market Shares, Retail Change, Sainsbury, Tesco, Uncategorized
Tagged Discounters, Kantar Worldpanel, Market share, Tesco, UK Grocery
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Talking Tesco (Again)
It has been quite a few weeks for Tesco, currently ending in the positive column. The recent interim results showed quite a lot of commercial progress and the intended restoration of the dividend cheered the City considerably. The trials of … Continue reading
Posted in Accounting, Booker, CMA, Competition, Competition and Markets Authority, Convenience stores, Finest, Food Retailing, International Retailing, Local Retailers, Market Shares, NTUC FairPrice, Profits, Retail Change, Retailers, Singapore, Suppliers, Tesco, Wholesaling
Tagged Accounting, Booker, CMA, Convenience stores, Court Case, Finest, Fraud, NTUC, Singapore, Suppliers, Takeover, Tesco, Wholesalers
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Turning Around another Supertanker; Marks and Spencer
It has been a while since I have written about Tesco, Marmite excepting, and the last few times I did, I used the analogy of a supertanker and the relative slowness at which lumbering retail giants see their strategies take … Continue reading
