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Sainsbury’s CEO vows to live well with less as Asda deal is ‘history’

Embattled CEO Mike Coupe has insisted the future is bright for Sainsbury’s and this week vowed to stay for “months and years”, despite the failure of a bid to merge with Asda that cost £46m.

In another incident-filled week for Sainsbury’s – in which Greenpeace protesters stormed its HQ – the CEO issued a robust defence of the doomed bid at its annual results, insisting the deal was now “ancient history” and promising that Sainsbury’s “was doing all the things we need to do in terms of adapting our business to our changing customers’ needs”. Coupe committed himself to the business “for months and years into the future”. 

Not including the costs from the proposed merger (among a number of one-off items totalling £400m), Sainsbury’s profits were up 8% to £635m, with sales up 2% to £32.4bn. With debt reduction and free cashflow ahead of target, Sainsbury’s also increased the dividend by 8% to 11p per share, settling investor nerves. 

As well as £220m in synergies from the integration of Argos into its stores – whose sales, he pointed out, were not reflected in the Kantar and Nielsen figures – Coupe hailed the performance of its grocery business as a highlight, despite sales growing only 0.6% to £19.4bn. (Total retail sales were up just 0.4% to £27bn.) In terms of channels, the convenience arm, with sales up 3.7%, was a “brilliant business” and plans to open 10 new convenience stores were only constrained by the availability of compelling sites, he explained.

Source: The Grocer May 8 | In-store Analysis