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Asda was formed in 1965 following the merger of Asquiths and Associated Dairies, and has established itself as one of the UK’s biggest supermarket players. The grocer is renowned for its focus on everyday low prices and an extensive product assortment, operating mainly from large out-of-town supermarkets and hypermarkets across the UK. it was acquired by US retail titan Walmart in a £6.7bn deal. Walmart sought to reduce its exposure to the fiercely contested British market and, after a merger with Sainsbury’s was blocked by the Competition and Markets Authority, eventually sold a majority stake in Asda to petrol forecourt tycoons the Issa brothers in February 2021.
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Asda (Strategy)
Sportswear retailer Decathlon becomes the first seller to go live on George.com as Asda seeks to extend its ecommerce product range. Decathlon already has over 20 concessions in Asda supermarkets.
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Asda makes new senior appointments to ‘help drive 2025 growth ambitions’
Asda has today unveiled two new senior appointments to “help drive its growth ambitions in 2025”.
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Asda teams up with Decathlon for new sportswear partnership
George at Asda is adding hundreds of Decathlon products to its website under a new partnership.
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Analysis
Revealed: The UK’s top grocery innovators and what’s key to their success
As the most competitive retail sector in the UK, nothing comes easy for the grocers, making innovation and transformation an essential part of supermarket strategies as they fight for share of wallet.
Here we reveal three of the winning grocery innovations explored in Retail Week’s latest report, The Grocery Innovators: Redefining Food Retail -
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Ranking: The most sustainable retailers according to shoppers
New data collected by Lumina Intelligence exclusively for Retail Week shows customers believe Marks & Spencer and Tesco are the most sustainable retailers.
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Opinion
‘Mohsin Issa’s Asda departure paves the way for Lord Rose to bring much-needed stability’
With Asda sales tanking and its market share in free fall, Mohsin Issa stepping down from running the business finally paves the way for new leadership to bring a semblance of stability back to the business, writes news editor Hugh Radojev
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Rose steps up at Asda as co-owner Mohsin steps down
The supermarket today announced that co-owner Mohsin Issa would be relinquishing his executive role to focus on EG Group.
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Analysis
LIVE 2025 Retail Week x The Grocer: Meet the key speakers
Here are just some of the speakers that will be taking to the LIVE stage on February 11, 2025.
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News
Asda chair Lord Rose: ‘We can’t become a state where people just live on handouts’
Asda chair Lord Rose has warned that Britain’s “worklessness crisis” will take decades to address.
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Opinion
‘As Asda flounders and Aldi’s sales slow, the battle for this year’s Christmas table will dictate grocery success’
The seasonal showdown in grocery may be particularly interesting this year at the value end of the market where Aldi, Lidl and Asda will slug it out amid shifting dynamics, says George MacDonald
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Asda workers are staging protests as equal pay claim case kicks off
Some Asda workers are staging demonstrations in Manchester and Brighton as an equal pay claim against the retailer begins.
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Analysis
Power to the people: the age of striking retail workers
A rising number of retailers are facing threats of industrial action from employees with the help of trade unions. Retail Week delves into why retail workers are increasingly opting to strike
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Aldi to overtake Asda as UK’s third-largest supermarket in the next five years
Analysts have predicted that discounter Aldi will overtake Asda as the third-biggest supermarket in the UK within the next five years, based on current market share trends.
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Asda denies union claims that workers could strike at Skelton store
Asda has denied GMB claims that it’s facing another potential strike at one of its stores as health and safety concerns prompted the opening of a formal strike ballot.
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Analysis
Price, value and competition: The factors determining this year’s back-to-school winners and losers
As the majority of the back-to-school retail players lock prices across school uniforms and essentials again this year, Retail Week looks at the driving factors of the peak shopping period ahead of the return to school in August and September
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Opinion
‘Lord Rose’s intervention shows that Mohsin Issa has become an albatross around Asda’s neck’
In his hugely successful career, everything Mohsin Issa has touched has turned to gold – until, that is, he bought Asda. Now the harder he works and the more involved he becomes in turning the business around, the further it seems to drift into the doldrums, writes Hugh Radojev
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Asda chair says he is ‘embarrassed’ by performance as he urges co-owner to step back
Asda chair Lord Stuart Rose has said he is “embarrassed” by the supermarket giant’s market share retreat and called on co-owner Mohsin Issa to take a step back from the day-to-day running of the retailer.
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Analysis
Asda’s three new priorities to turnaround tumbling sales and evaporating market share
After a dismal set of financial results for the first half of the year, Asda has three new key priorities for the remainder of the year that it hopes will right the ship
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News
Asda owner has blamed the ‘challenging retail environment’ as revenues and like-for-likes slump
Asda owner Mohsin Issa has blamed what he called a “challenging retail environment” for falling revenues and a slump in like-for-like sales at the grocer.
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Asda owners to invest £30m into supermarket chain to arrest sales slump
Asda co-owner Mohsin Issa is set to inject £30m into the supermarket chain in a bid to reverse its sales slump trend.