Asda

Receive free UK retail industry updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK retail industrynews every morning. Asda executives were accused of damaging the company’s brand after an “extraordinary”…

After 21 years as part of Walmart, UK supermarket chain Asda was sold to the Issa Brothers and TDR Capital in 2020 for more than £6bn. As it moves away from the US retailer, a large amount of technology spread across Asda’s 29…

Asda has chosen Workday for its internal people management to keep track of and look after its 140,000 global employees. The software company was chosen as part of the supermarket’s ongoing digital transformation as it works to…

Asda’s private equity owner has claimed the value of its investment in the supermarket chain has soared by nearly 20 times as it gears up for a potential bid for the pharmacy chain Boots. The London-based TDR Capital said its stake as…

To continue reading please register or login to your OHW+ account.More than 6,000 warehouse staff, clerical workers and HGV drivers based at Asda distribution centres have voted that they are ready to take industrial action over pay. The…

Asda is facing potential disruption to supermarket deliveries after thousands of lorry drivers, warehouse staff and clerical workers voted to reject a pay offer. Almost 70% of the GMB union’s 8,000 members within Asda’s distribution…

Asda has revealed it chartered its own cargo ship to ensure key festive items such as toys, clothing and decorations reach its stores, in the latest example of the extreme measures retailers are taking to mitigate pre-Christmas supply…

The former boss of Marks & Spencer has been appointed chairman of Asda as the supermarket chain searches for a replacement chief executive. Lord Rose of Monewden, 72, was hired by Mohsin and Zuber Issa, who own Asda, after the…