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	Ocado
		Ocado is said to be looking to raise a further £50m to fund the expansion of its online food retailing business, and Goldman Sachs has been appointed financial adviser.
		Ocado is planning to expand its Waitrose groceries distribution business in Southampton over the next few months, with the creation of 100 jobs.
		Ocado, which is 40% owned by the John Lewis Partnership, is to launch an online grocery delivery service from a temporary depot in Hemel Hempstead later this year, while a new depot is built in nearby Hatfield.
	www.ukbusinesspark.co.uk /ocadoaaa.htm (198 words)

	Ocado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ocado is an internet based grocery retailer in the United Kingdom which sells both name-brand goods and Waitrose own brand goods.
		Ocado is partly owned by the John Lewis Partnership but remains independent.
		Despite this, it has been reported that the Ocado brand is becoming more popular than the more established Waitrose, 30% of Ocado is owned by Waitrose owners, the John Lewis Partnership.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ocado (337 words)

	Online Grocer Ocado Selects Mercado’s IntuiFind For Effective Online Purchasing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ocado is the newest entry in the online grocery market, offering the quality and value for which Waitrose is renowned, alongside reliable service and convenient delivery times from a company dedicated to home delivery.
		Ocado was launched in January 2002, and was initially confined to a pilot area surrounding Hemel Hempstead.
		Ocado is made up of a formidable team of retail, grocery and logistics experts who believe the sophisticated technology behind the service will give it the edge over the existing leaders in this sector.
	www.internetretailer.com /internet/marketing-conference/78611-online-grocer-ocado-selects-mercados-intuifind-effective-online-purchasin.html (670 words)

	Ocado gets Big Brother tag \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		Ocado shoppers, more than most, may be concerned to learn that workers are constantly monitored by computer tags.
		Ocado and Waitrose pride themselves on selling chicken and other meat that reaches high standards of care and environmental standards.
		Academic researchers are worried the technology might unleash a new wave of industrial injuries because of the need for workers to make many thousands of repetitive micro-movements with cumbersome apparatus strapped to their arms.
	www.guardian.co.uk /guardian_jobs_and_money/story/0,,1503648,00.html (553 words)

	Ocado takes technology route to online delivery - 24/Jan/2002 - ComputerWeekly.com
		Ocado said the first semi-automated picking centre of its kind in the UK, allied with a strong focus on customer service, will help it to make a mark on the UK online grocery market, which analyst firm G2 estimates will be worth £33bn by 2005.
		Ocado has promised to deliver goods within a one-hour time slot and is working with logistics software provider Descartes to achieve this.
		Ocado aims to cover all of the major urban areas in the UK within the next five years.
	www.computerweekly.com /Articles/2002/01/24/184806/ocado-takes-technology-route-to-online-delivery.htm (415 words)

	BIW Technologies Ltd - Press Room / Releases / ONLINE COMPANY PROCURES ITS BUILDING ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ocado, the newest entry in the online grocery market, will offer the quality and value for which Waitrose is renowned alongside reliable service and convenient delivery times from a company dedicated to home delivery.
		The John Lewis Partnership has invested £46m in Ocado which has the exclusive right to use the Waitrose brand and is set to become a major competitor to existing internet grocers such as Tesco and Sainsbury's.
		Ocado, formerly known as LM Solutions, was founded in January 2000 by three ex-Goldman Sachs bankers, Jonathan Faiman, Jason Gissing and Tim Steiner.
	www.biwtech.com /pressroom/releases/1029.asp (870 words)

	Ocado forges strategy for internet boom
		Hertfordshire-based Ocado, which received £11m start up fees from John Lewis in 2001 to administer its online food distribution, is effectively outsourced by Waitrose — classing the whole operation apart from other supermarkets that run e-tail divisions as a ‘bolt-on' to usual trading.
		Ocado, which is the UK's second-biggest online food retailer, processes 36,000 orders a week and covers 40 per cent of the UK.
		A new Ocado depot opened in Southampton in September, greatly increasing its capabilities for the South East of England.
	www.foodnavigator.com /news/ng.asp?n=64074-ocado-waitrose-tesco (673 words)

	Scotsman.com News - The BBC - BBC chief makes Grade as first Ocado chairman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ocado, which was launched by three former Goldman Sachs bankers three years ago, works in partnership with supermarket Waitrose to deliver groceries to people's doorsteps.
		Mr Grade, who said he was a regular shopper with Ocado, was said to be "gobsmacked by the scale and efficiency of the business", but added the corporate governance of the company would benefit from someone with experience.
		Ocado, which is 33 per cent owned by the John Lewis Partnership - which also owns Waitrose - is currently only available in certain areas of England including London and the North West but is expected to spread to Scotland soon on the back of recent Waitrose openings in Edinburgh.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=474&id=1390712006 (523 words)

	Telegraph \| Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ocado, the online food retailer aiming to float on the stock market within three years, has drawn up plans to raise up to £20m in the next few months to fund its aggressive expansion.
		Shareholders in Ocado, which is 43 per cent owned by the John Lewis Partnership, the department store retailer and owner of the Waitrose supermarket chain, passed a resolution allowing the board to issue up to 200,000 new shares at an extraordinary meeting late last month.
		Analysts believe Ocado is likely to be valued at around £400m if it goes ahead with the flotation plan.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2005/01/02/cnocado02.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2005/01/02/ixfrontcity.html (413 words)

	Sun Microsystems - UK - Success Stories - Retail & Distribution - Ocado enhances the retail experience with BSI and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ocado is a revolutionary online supermarket, designed to change consumers' shopping habits and make supermarket shopping a quick and easy, stress-free and enjoyable experience.
		Although Ocado has not yet needed the additional CPU capacity, as the company continues to grow, the extra power will be readily available, without the need to invest in additional hardware or system upgrades.
		Ocado's key internal business systems also run on Sun servers, including the company's warehouse management and control systems, located at its main distribution centre in Hatfield.
	uk.sun.com /sunnews/success/retail/97.html (1419 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Ocado planning £350m share sale
		Ocado, the service that home delivers food for Waitrose supermarkets, is planning an up to £350m ($671m) stock listing within 18 months.
		Ocado, which has been in business for less than three years, has annual sales of about £135m, according to the Financial Times.
		The newspaper said Ocado reaches about 30% of British homes, but wants to extend its coverage to 70% over the next five years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4122989.stm (453 words)

	WebAbacus: Online behaviour in focus - Ocado
		Ocado, the newest entry in the online grocery market, is a little different from the other, more established players in this field.
		Through a licensing deal with Waitrose (which has partly funded the venture), Ocado will offer the quality and value for which Waitrose is renowned, alongside exceptional customer service and one hour delivery time slots from a company dedicated to home delivery.
		Ocado is set to roll out WebAbacus Release 4 in the next few months, which will enable it to integrate its online behaviour analysis with customer and product databases, to build the most detailed picture possible of customer browsing and buying patterns on the web site.
	www.webabacus.com /80256E32003B2A30/(httpPublicDocuments)/Ocado (284 words)

	RE: Ocado blacklisted by Google? \| Forum \| E-consultancy.com
		Interestingly, as a past customer of Ocado I noticed at the time that their site was frames-tastic and had ’will-not-rank-very-well’ written all over it.
		Ocado had 130 pages indexed on Google at the beginning of the year and now 0.
		Seems a similar thing is happening across the pond with a class action suit being brought against an SEO company for using unethical practices which have lead to their entire clien...
	www.e-consultancy.com /forum/101400-re-ocado-blacklisted-by-google.html (635 words)

	Food giants square up in checkout wars
		The most interesting thing about Ocado is that it is not duplicating the Tesco way but going in an opposite direction, most obviously through the use of central warehouses as distribution points.
		Ocado, however, knows that Tesco's Achilles heel is that customers cannot be sure what goods are in stock.
		Ocado's challenge to Tesco is a salient reminder that, even if there are fewer combatants in online selling, the real business battles are still to come.
	www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2086760 (557 words)

	Past articles by Kim Gilmour: Dotcom adventures Archives
		Ocado is unusual in the post-dotcom era in that it's an online supermarket which, unlike the Web operations of Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda, doesn't have any stores in the real world.
		Ocado launched at the beginning of 2002, and analysts were sceptical of the massive investment and running costs required to sustain its operation.
		Ocado was created with financial help from the John Lewis Partnership (which owns Waitrose) as well as investment bank UBC and other private stakeholders.
	www.kimgilmour.com /articles/archive/cat_dotcom_adventures.html (7582 words)

	Ocado to reach out in London - Food Retailing - Brief Article Eurofood - Find Articles
		Ocado will be up against UK market leader Tesco.com, but the Waitrose interest said it will beat its competition by cutting delivery charges and times.
		Ocado said it will deliver within one hour compared to Tesco's two hour period.
		Ocado also claims it has 99% accuracy in its deliveries.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DQA/is_2002_July_4/ai_89077096 (352 words)

	Ocado Corporate Site: Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Ocado was conceived with one simple objective in mind: to offer busy people a true alternative to going to the supermarket every week.
		Ocado customers receive the fine quality groceries and value for money for which Waitrose is renowned - delivered by a service built for that purpose.
		By fulfilling orders from a dedicated warehouse, we can show virtually live inventory on our webshop, enabling customers to choose from a range of groceries that are actually in stock.
	corporate.ocado.com /background.html (181 words)

	Ocado Home Delivery Service London
		I've been using Ocado about once a month for over a year.
		I have also had various other home delivery services but Ocado are the best.
		I've used two other major supermarket home delivery services and found Ocado to be vastly superior - both in terms of produce and service.
	www.urbanpath.com /london/home-delivery-services/ocado.htm (595 words)

	Michael Grade joins Ocado as chairman - Computer Business Review
		BBC chairman Michael Grade is to become the first chairman of online grocery retailer Ocado, renewing speculation that the company is gearing up for a stock market flotation.
		Ocado, which sells Waitrose groceries online, appointed Goldman Sachs as its financial advisers in November 2005.
		Ocado is 33% owned by the John Lewis Partnership and stressed it was unlikely to float until 2008.
	www.cbronline.com /article_news_print.asp?guid=E294A9D0-E88A-4026-8C93-5B282DD86059 (195 words)

	Ocado. \| Bods's Blog \| Planet Bods
		Ocado are part owned by John Lewis, and use Waitrose as the supplier of groceries.
		Unlike their rivals, Ocado give you a one hour time slot.
		Waitrose has a rather expensive image, and Ocado use Waitrose prices, but I found it no more expensive than Sainsburys and in many instances cheaper.
	www.planetbods.org /blog/2002/08/11/ocado.live (1303 words)

	Telegraph \| Business \| Ocado on road to profits and site expansion
		Ocado, the internet retailer supplied by Waitrose, is set to turn a profit next year but is still some way off a stock market flotation, says chief executive Tim Steiner.
		But the recent release of the company's November 2005 results drew unwanted attention to the fact it spent £200m – or £1 for every £1.35 in current sales – on developing a distribution centre in Hatfield, Herts, while losses widened.
		Ocado now fulfils around 50,000 orders a week, with an average basket value of £106, and is likely to reach 60,000 orders by the end of the year.
	telegraph.co.uk /money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/09/06/cnocado06.xml (541 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Right up your street
		Ocado is a fascinating operation, dreamt up and run by three dazzlingly bright 30-somethings, ex-investment bankers from Goldman Sachs in London.
		Ocado spent up to £100m building a tremendously complex warehouse, a vast aircraft hanger on the redundant Hatfield airport.
		But for all the vast costs and risk of Waitrose's superwarehouse model, it is far cheaper and faster to invest millions in Ocado than to buy sites and get planning permission for the hundreds of stores that Waitrose needs to become a really big player in British groceries.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/4132302.stm (748 words)

	Ocado UK - info on discount vouchers, codes and store coupons
		Ocado is an online grocery shopping service launched in partnership with Waitrose.
		Alternatively you can visit Ocado directly an go to the sales or promotions sections for the latest store offers.
		Expiration of codes and/or vouchers can occur at any time without prior notice, and while we try to keep site up-to-date, we cannot be held responsible nor liable as to the accuracy of the content, offers and discounts.
	www.bestshopdeals.co.uk /store-detail/ocado.html (240 words)

	Adverblog: Ocado: 'Be more demanding' campaign
		Ocado, the online grocery service, has started a cross media campaign to promote its new customer service proposition.
		As Brand Republic reports, Ocado is is using print and radio promotion as well as is sending out personalised and targeted e-mails...
		As Brand Republic reports, Ocado is is using print and radio promotion as well as is sending out personalised and targeted e-mails to new and existing users promoting offers, incentives and e-coupons.
	www.adverblog.com /archives/000307.htm (102 words)

	Grade to chair online retailer Ocado \| \| Guardian Unlimited Business
		Tim Steiner, the Ocado chief executive, said the group would relish his "media savvy" in helping the retailer communicate with its customers despite the former Channel 4 chief executive not having any retail experience.
		His appointment appears to be part of an emerging trend of retailers hiring media executives.
		But Jason Gissing, the Ocado finance director, said the company was "in no hurry" to seek a stock market listing.
	business.guardian.co.uk /story/0,,1876672,00.html (345 words)

	Scotsman.com Business - Latest News - Online grocer Ocado delays flotation
		"(A float in) 2007 is unlikely as Ocado has to have a good profit record rather than just a few months of profit," Hampson, the biggest shareholder in Ocado, was quoted as saying.
		"(A float in) 2007 is unlikely as Ocado has to have a good profit record rather than just a few months of profit," Stuart Hampson, chairman of John Lewis Partnership, the biggest shareholder in Ocado, was quoted as saying.
		"Ocado is still loss-making and it is looking for volumes so the next six months are going to be critical for building that," he added.
	business.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=1363812006 (374 words)

	ocado to sponsor five's big love \| press \| five.tv
		Five and Starcom+ have secured a new broadcast sponsorship deal with Ocado, the on-line supermarket service, in partnership with Waitrose, for its brand new HBO polygamy drama series Big Love, it was announced today, (TUES).
		The Ocado sponsorship will start on Five with the opening double bill of the series on Monday, 12th June at 9pm.
		Big Love is a great series and Ocado is a fantastic brand - it looks set to be a great success“.
	www.five.tv /aboutfive/press/pressreleases/20060606_OcadoSponsor (325 words)

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