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RNS Number : 2749N  Ocado Group PLC  18 June 2025

18 June 2025

 

Ocado Group plc ("Ocado")

 

Ocado and Bon Preu announce a new Customer Fulfilment Centre in Catalonia

 

Ocado Group ("Ocado") and Bon Preu Group ("Bon Preu") have announced an
expansion of their partnership, with plans to construct a Customer Fulfilment
Centre ("CFC") in Parets del Vallès, to serve customers in the Catalonia
region.

 

Following a period of rapid growth enabled by Ocado's In-Store Fulfilment
("ISF") solution, the new automated CFC will allow Bon Preu customers to
benefit from an even broader range, greater freshness and higher perfect order
rate. It will also bring the significant cost efficiencies of Ocado's robotic
automation and a pathway to fully-costed online grocery profitability.

 

Bon Preu was Ocado's first international partner, signing a deal in 2017 to
grow a leading online proposition in Catalonia, drawing on Ocado's experience
as a successful online and logistics operator in the UK. It has deployed
Ocado's cutting-edge technology across Bon Preu's ecommerce supply chain.

 

Since going live in 2018, Bon Preu's online business has developed
substantially and taken significant market share. It has grown well ahead of
the wider online channel in Spain and become the leading online grocery
proposition in Catalonia, measured by customer satisfaction scores. It was
also recognized in 2024 by the Spanish consumer organization (OCU) as the
highest-rated online grocery service in Spain.

 

As the CFC goes live it will enable Bon Preu to process its already
significant online volumes through the most efficient online grocery
fulfilment technology in the world, including Ocado's suite of Re:Imagined
technologies.

 

Gregor Ulitzka, Europe President for Ocado Solutions, said:

 

"Today is an exciting moment as we enter a new phase with our longest-standing
international partner. Our partnership with Bon Preu is an amazing example of
a retailer using the full strategic toolkit that Ocado offers. They have
already developed a market-leading online proposition in Catalonia with
Ocado's In-Store Fulfilment technology and will now benefit from a highly
automated CFC, offering an enhanced customer proposition and a significantly
lower cost-to-serve. We look forward to continuing to work together to deliver
unbeatable experiences online to customers in the Catalonia region."

 

Anna Font i Tanyà, Commercial Director, Bon Preu Group, said:

"Our commitment to the online channel is strong. We are pleased with the
success we've achieved since launching BonpreuEsclat online, which has led us
to become the highest-rated online supermarket by consumers. We will continue
improving the range, punctuality and quality of the orders in our operations,
and we will do so in close partnership with Ocado. With their experience and
technology, we are confident we will continue to grow in a sustained and
sustainable way, while continuing to offer the best online shopping experience
to our customers,"

Contacts:

 

●    Tim Steiner, Chief Executive Officer on +44 1707 228 000

●    Stephen Daintith, Chief Financial Officer on +44 1707 228 000

●    Nick Coulter, Capital Markets and FP&A Director on +44 1707 228
000

●    Jamie Kerr, Global Head of Communications on +44 1707 228 000

●    Lucy Legh / Matt Denham / Jack Gault, Headland Consultancy -
ocadogroup@headlandconsultancy.com (mailto:ocadogroup@headlandconsultancy.com)
on +44 (0) 20 3805 4822

 

Notes to Editors

 

About Ocado Group

 

Ocado Group is a UK based technology company trading on the London Stock
Exchange (Ticker OCDO). It provides end-to-end online grocery fulfilment
solutions to thirteen of the world's largest grocery retailers and holds a 50%
share of Ocado Retail Ltd in the UK in a Joint Venture with Marks &
Spencer. Ocado has spent two decades innovating for grocery online, investing
in a wide technology estate that includes robotics, AI & machine learning,
simulation, forecasting, and edge intelligence.

 

About Bon Preu

Bon Preu Group is a Catalan company that aspires to be a leading reference for
consumers in their everyday needs in a competitive and profitable way. Its
purpose is to generate value for society and the company itself through
ethical principles and social responsibility, while operating efficiently. It
aims to make customers' daily lives easier by offering essential services:
food through Bonpreu Esclat and BonpreuEsclat online, fuel through EsclatOil,
and energy through BonpreuEsclat Energia.

Currently, Bon Preu Group operates 138 Bonpreu supermarkets, 60 Esclat
hypermarkets, and 14 minimarkets. Through BonpreuEsclat online it serves
nearly 6 million people. The group also manages 63 EsclatOil petrol stations,
more than 400 electric vehicle charging points, and supplies electricity
across the country through BonpreuEsclat Energia.

Person responsible for arranging the release of this announcement:

 

Neill Abrams

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

Ocado Group plc

Buildings One & Two, Trident Place, Mosquito Way,

Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9UL

email: company.secretary@ocado.com (mailto:company.secretary@ocado.com)

 

Ocado Group plc LEI: 213800LO8F61YB8MBC74

 

 

 

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