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Tesco has cheered its highest market share since 2016 after ringing up an increase in gross sales because it stated prospects switched to the grocery store over the essential Christmas shopping season.
The UK’s greatest supermarket chain reported UK and Ireland like-for-like gross sales, excluding gas and VAT, up 3.7% over the six weeks to January 4 and report buying and selling within the week earlier than Christmas.
It stated gross sales over its third quarter earlier than the Christmas interval lifted 2.8% throughout the 13 weeks to November 23, with gross sales up 3.1% in whole over the 19 weeks to January 4.
Tesco stated it benefited from investments in costs as prospects switched to the chain, with latest business figures from Kantar displaying its market share reached a nine-year excessive of 28.5% within the 12 weeks to December 29.
It stated it remained on monitor with not too long ago upgraded full-year revenue steerage for round £2.9 billion in retail underlying earnings.
But the gross sales development is decrease than the 6% development it notched up the earlier Christmas.
Ken Murphy, chief govt at Tesco, stated: “We invested to carry one of the best worth, high quality and repair to everybody, regardless of how or the place they shopped with us.
“As a outcome, we delivered our greatest ever Christmas, with continued market share development and switching good points.”
