Aldi news

The latest 12 week data release from Kantar Worldpanel to 12 October 2014, shows GB grocery market growth remains sluggish, on just 0.4%.  The latest measure of inflation shows prices falling by 0.2%, indicating that while the market is struggling for value growth, the volume uplift is slightly stronger.  Amongst the leading four retailers it is again only Asda that sustained positive growth over ...

Discounter Aldi plans to invest another $700m AUD in its Australian expansion to Western Australia and South Australia. Close to $4bn AUD total investment Over the next few years, Aldi Australia plans to invest $400m-$450m AUD in Western Australia (WA) and $200m-$300m AUD in South Australia (SA), bringing total investment in the country to almost $4bn AUD since entering the market in 2001....

Many retailers have sought to imitate it, but Trader Joe’s remains a relatively unique concept in global grocery retailing. Part of the Aldi Group, it’s a retailer that blends gourmet, health, ethnic and convenience elements to deliver an unmatched retail experience. With the retailer continuing to grow and expand across the US, we’ve identified the five key factors that support this. ...

Aldi UK has revealed impressive sales, up 35.7% to £5.27bn, for the year ending 31 December 2013. Profit for the discounter's UK and Ireland operations has also seen stellar growth with pre-tax profits up 65.2% to £260.9m. 'Price war has benefited Aldi' Aldi's growth has accelerated further in the current financial year with market share according to Kantar now at 4.8% and customer numbers ...

Amid consistent outstanding performance, we explore five reasons why we expect Aldi to continue growing in the UK. 1. Keeping customers at the heart Aldi keeps its customers at the heart of everything it does, ensuring that the shopping experience is made as simple and stress-free as possible. This strategy is focused on the discounter's core model which ensures that prices and SKU count ...

Kantar Worldpanel's latest data release, for the 12 week period to 14 September 2014, indicates that growth in the GB grocery retailing market has slowed further, in fact remaining only marginally positive on 0.3%.  The lack of inflation (now at zero) remains a key underlying factor, though clearly volume growth remains notably restrained.  Once more only one of the leading four retailers, Asda, a...

In the latest Kantar Worldpanel results for the 12 weeks to 17 August 2014, we look at how Irish grocery retailers are continuing to drive traffic through stores. Tesco's market share continues to weaken In this period Tesco saw a slight recovery in performance with its sales falling by 5.5%, an improvement from 6.2% in the previous period. Tesco's Irish market share continues to weaken, de...

With grocery shoppers using more channels than ever before, retailers are developing new formats that cross traditional channel boundaries. In the past few years we have seen superstores move into convenience, hypermarkets devoting space to online fulfilment and foodservice solutions become part of the convenience channel. But perhaps one of the most active areas is the development of hybrid form...

Kantar Worldpanel's latest data, covering the 12 week period to 17 August 2014, shows that GB grocery retail growth continues to slow, falling to a 10-year low of 0.8% over the three month period. Sector inflation has also continued to fall, dropping to just 0.2%, putting a significant brake on value growth in the market, though indicating that volumes have grown. Among retailer fortunes, Aldi and...

Following the recent trend of moving away from selling sugary products at the checkout, Aldi has announced it will be introducing healthy checkouts in 2015. 16-week trial proved popular Aldi has trialled the healthy checkout initiative across a number of stores over a 16 week period to ensure that this is the right move for the discounter and its customers. Commenting on the trial, Gi...