date:Jan 17, 2014
Sales at UK online supermarket Ocado in the six weeks to 5 January grew 21.3% to 111.1 million, which the company says reflected extra capacity and strong trading in the run up to Christmas. Average order size rose 0.8% to 111.60 in the period.
The strong growth beat estimates from analysts participating in a Bloomberg News survey of 19.5% improvement.
Tim Steiner, Ocado chief executive officer, said that they are pleased with the progress in our underlying trading reflecting the further impr