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In the fiscal year ending in December 2024, the Ocado Group generated **** million British pounds selling its advertising services. The services include selling Ocado's online store ad spaces to suppliers and other third parties. The income increased roughly 10 percent compared to the value reported for the fiscal year 2023.

A success story

Established in 2000, Ocado Group is one of the leading food and beverage online stores in the United Kingdom by e-commerce net sales. Despite being a purely online business, it also made it to the top 10 of UK grocery stores by market share. Additionally to its core business, the company offers automation and technology solutions for the online grocery retailing sector.

Pandemic boosts online grocery sales in the UK

In the United Kingdom, as in the rest of the world, lockdowns and stay-home advisories during the COVID-19 pandemic made online grocery shopping popular among shoppers. In 2024, the value of online food and grocery sales in the UK amounted to over ** billion British pounds. By 2025, the figure is expected to increase further to almost ** billion. In December 2023, the most popular grocery website in the UK based on desktop traffic share was Tesco's website. Tesco's visit share was more than ** percent. ASDA’s website ranked second with a ** percent share.