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B&M European Retail - Acquires “up to 51 Wilco stores”

October 2023

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  • Epic Code:
  • BME
  • Price:
  • 558p
For the longest time the Big Four grocers (Tesco, Asda, Sainsburys, Morrisons) appeared to have cornered the UK market but successive financial shocks and the Pandemic saw consumers embrace German-owned discounters Aldi and Lidl, whose respective market shares increased from 6.2% and 4.5% at the start of 2017 to 10.2% and 7.7% in August 2023. None of the Big Four could hold back the tide with Morrisons (from 10.9% to 8.7%) and the heavily indebted Asda (15.6% to 13.7%) suffering the most. However, sneaking up the rails almost un-noticed is B&M European Retail, the subject of this article, which sells both food & drink and non-groceries like kitchenware, garden equipment and home accessories. At the start of the Global Financial C ...

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