Why Grocery Home Shopping 2000?

Conference Chairman.

Conference Agenda, Wednesday 1st March 2000.

Conference Agenda, Thursday 2nd March 2000.

Grocery Home Shopping Links

Why Grocery Home Shopping 2000?
 

US supermarket chains are taking a fresh hard look at their web strategies in the wake of Webvan Group's recent stock market valuation of $8 billion. In the UK, major retailers now lead the world in grocery home shopping. 

Tesco, Somerfield and Asda are committed to a battle for market share of the new sector. The UK grocery home shopping sector is now worth an estimated £130 million p.a.  Based upon current retailer expansion plans, the UK  sector will have grown to £820 million p.a. by 2001.  This will  represent over 1% of total UK grocery market sales. 

Grocery home shopping is significant also for durables. Tesco and Asda, like Streamline but with far greater resources, see their Grocery home shopping portal as increasingly important in their current expansion into clothing and durables. Kitchen ordering systems may revolutionise the durables market.

In the third annual Insight grocery home shopping conference, the key market players from the UK, the US and Europe will evaluate global progress to date and the shape of things to come. 
 
 

Conference Chairman

Stewart Oades is Managing Director of Retail-Europe for Exel Logistics and has previously worked for Salvesen Logistics and prior to that for Safeway where he held Logistics and Supply Chain roles.

Exel Logistics are one of the major global contract logistics providers working for many of the world's leading retail and consumer goods companies.  Exel have a strong commitment to the home shopping logistics market and have significant business in the UK and the USA.  Their major customers include Marks & Spencer, Safeway, Argos and Hoover in the UK and their Merchants Home Delivery business in North America works for most of the 'big ticket' retailers providing home delivery and installation activities.