Britain's M&S had Strong Christmas for Food, says NIQ
British retailer Marks & Spencer's food business enjoyed robust trading in the run-up to Christmas with sales up 6.8% in the four weeks to Dec. 28 and its market share rising to a record 4.8%, industry data showed on Wednesday.
Market researcher NIQ said M&S was the UK's second-fastest growing bricks-and-mortar food retailer after discounter Lidl, whose sales rose by 8.5%.
Online supermarket Ocado remained the fastest growing of all grocers with sales up 13.9%.
Most of NIQ's data echoed a report from rival market...
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