{"id":10581,"date":"2026-01-08T19:05:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10581"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:05:55","slug":"ms-and-tesco-enjoy-christmas-sales-surge-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=10581","title":{"rendered":"M&#038;S and Tesco enjoy Christmas sales surge \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Marks-Spencer-Gyle-2.png\" alt=\"Marks &amp; Spencer Gyle Edinburgh\" class=\"wp-image-145945 lazyload\" style=\"width:835px;height:auto\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Marks-Spencer-Gyle-2.png\" alt=\"Marks &amp; Spencer Gyle Edinburgh\" class=\"wp-image-145945 lazyload\" style=\"width:835px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Marks-Spencer-Gyle-2.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Marks-Spencer-Gyle-2-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Marks-Spencer-Gyle-2-768x501.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Marks-Spencer-Gyle-2-600x391.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Marks &amp; Spencer food gained market share<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Marks and Spencer has reported solid Christmas trading for the 13 weeks to 27 December, with total sales surging 24.2% to \u00a34.99 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">This was driven by strong food sales which grew 6.6% to \u00a32.7bn with like-for-like growth of 5.6%, achieving a record market share of 4%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fashion, Home &amp; Beauty sales saw a slight decrease of 2.5% to \u00a31.27bn, with like-for-like sales down 2.9%, though online performance improved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">International sales rose 0.9% to \u00a3158 million, and Ocado Retail sales increased by 13.7%. The company maintained its full-year guidance, focusing on accelerating its reshaping strategy with continued investment in value, quality, and customer experience.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tesco<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tesco said results group like-for-like sales increased by 3.1% in Q3 and 2.4% over the Christmas period, resulting in a 2.9% rise for the combined 19 weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The UK saw like-for-like sales growth of 3.9% in Q3 and 3.2% at Christmas, contributing to the highest UK market share in over a decade. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Online sales grew by 11.2%, and the company now expects full-year adjusted operating profit to be at the upper end of its \u00a32.9bn to \u00a33.1bn guidance range.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Greggs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fast food chain Greggs posted a fourth quarter sales increase of 7.4% and said it expects its full-year outcome to be in line with previous expectations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It anticipates significantly reduced capital expenditure in 2026 following peak investment in its supply chain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Company-managed shop like-for-like saw sales growth of 2.9%, contributing to full-year 2025 total sales of \u00a32.15 billion, up 6.8% from 2024, with like-for-like sales up 2.4%. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Despite challenging market conditions, Greggs gained market share, opened 121 net shops in 2025 bringing the total to 2,739, and plans for around 120 net openings in 2026. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>See also<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Shopping malls enjoy footfall surge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Tesco #enjoy #Christmas #sales #surge #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marks &amp; Spencer food gaine&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[266,1326,265,5180,7147,7891,402,2284,7149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}