London, UK: Marks & Spencer was Britain’s fastest growing supermarket in the Christmas quarter, according to NIQ. It said M&S’s food sales on a value basis rose 12.1% in the 12 weeks to end of December, year-on-year, with its share of the UK grocery market rising to 3.8%.
Lidl GB’s sales over the 12 week period rose 15.3%, while Aldi UK’s sales were up 11.4%, increasing their combined market share to 20.1%, NIQ said.
The figures are similar to data from market researcher Kantar published last week. NIQ said market leader Tesco and Sainsbury’s also performed robustly with sales up 7.4% and 8.7% respectively, but Asda and Morrisons had growth of 3.2%.
Tesco will update on Christmas trading on Thursday, a day after Sainsbury’s.
