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Ocado founder: I was about to get on a plane to Japan

18.03.11
Ocado founder Jason Gissing, who is half-Japanese, tells the Standard about being torn between two cultures and how he plans to help... more

City Spy: Land Securities on wrong lines over CrossRail

15.12.10
It appears Land Securities may have been overcharged for the "Crossrail Levy" on its Victoria development - or worse... more

Ocado humiliation as shares plummet on flotation's day one

21.07.10
Ocado’s troubled flotation runs into more difficulties as the shares sink on the first day of trading despite the opening price being slashed at the last minute... more

How about Sir Terry Leahy as a firm hand on Ocado tiller?

20.07.10
The Tesco chief is looking for new projects, and the online grocer may want to ditch its flashier advisers... more

Ocado forced to cut flotation price as shoppers shun shares

20.07.10
Ocado slashes the price range for its stock market debut after concerns that demand for its shares has been poor... more

City doubts Ocado’s prospects ahead of float

16.07.10
Investors deciding whether to buy shares in the flotation of Ocado get fresh food for thought with a barrage of scepticism from City experts... more

Ocado valued at £1bn-plus in biggest flotation of the year

06.07.10
The largest and most ambitious stock market flotation of the year gets under way as online grocer Ocado prices its shares at between 200p and 275p... more

Bold Budget — but a big ask by George Osborne on cutting costs

28.06.10
Reaction to George Osborne’s Budget was, and should be, positive. It was bold in design and delivery, and on the tax aspects difficult to fault. But the savings side remains a worry. Can he really deliver what he claimed he will?... more

Will Ocado still deliver after this high-risk float?

10.06.10
Putting the darling of the middle classes on the market in such unstable times is a big test of customer loyalty... more

Ocado offers regular shoppers shares in £1bn flotation

07.06.10
Hundreds of thousands of Ocado customers are to be offered the chance to buy shares in an expected £1 billion stock market flotation... more

Ocado delivers but will the wheels come off its float?

29.03.10
Online retailer Ocado looks set to float this summer, with some in the City already talking up a price tag of £1 billion... more

Ocado prepares for $1bn stock market flotation

08.02.10
Ocado takes a step closer to a stock market flotation as appoints advisers for a shares sale that could come as early as May... more

A 2020 vision of machines as masters

04.01.10
We ask professionals with their fingers on the techno pulse how they think we’ll be living in a decade’s time... more

Ocado's army gears up for Christmas

23.11.09
Inside a 21-acre warehouse on the outskirts of the capital, a small army is preparing for Christmas. The building, in Hatfield, is home to Ocado... more

Lessons in probity from a wobbly three-legged stool

22.06.09
Here at the Evening Standard, we start work early in the morning. Which means that when I drive to work the roads are usually virtually empty... more

Ocado mulls flotation to milk upturn in market

17.06.09
Online supermarket Ocado could take advantage of improving market conditions by floating on the stock market as early as next year... more

Brutal times at Barclays as jobs axe falls

08.12.08
"Brutal Barclays" is what they are calling the bank these days. Internally, that is ... more

Ocado launches budget range to combat crunch

05.12.08
Ocado is launching its first range of low-price staples as affluent customers start to feel the pinch... more

P&G's Ocado stake a 'vote of confidence'

27.11.08
Retail: Procter & Gamble, the giant consumer goods firm, has taken a stake in Ocado, the online groceries delivery business founded by three former Goldman Sachs bankers... more

Ocado gets five-year John Lewis backing

07.11.08
John Lewis gievs a show of support for online supermarket Ocado, agreeing to keep supplying it with Waitrose food for the next five years at least... more

Gordon is our saviour? EU must be joking

24.10.08
Few people in Britain have taken too seriously the claims by US Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman and other luminaries that Gordon Brown's recapitalisation of the banks means he is a global superhero... more

Retail

08.10.08
These are the people who will steer London’s vital retail world through what looks like difficult trading ahead ... more

New Media

08.10.08
London is one of the greatest digital hotspots outside California's Silicon Valley and these are the people leading the way... more

Ocado delivers success as shoppers cook at home

25.09.08
The capital's biggest online supermarket has seen its sales soar despite the cash squeeze... more

Supermarket bosses: Yes, it's tough on High St - but inflation is not that bad

15.05.08
ANALYSIS Despite the headlines, we are probably some way from a free-for-all erupting at the local Waitrose... more


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