(Il Sole 24 Ore Radiocor) - Milano, 29 mag - The UK grocery technology company Ocado said it has entered into a partnership to develop the online business of retailer Asda across the UK with the Ocado Smart Platform (OSP).

Asda is one of the UK's largest retailers, with total sales in 2025 of more than 21 billion pounds, and operations across 1,100 stores nationwide. Asda also operates a substantial online grocery business, fulfilling more than 700,000 ecommerce orders weekly from a network of stores and dark stores across the UK.

The focus of the partnership will be to quickly replace and upgrade Asda's existing ecommerce infrastructure, with Ocado's solutions to be rolled out across both stores and dark stores from 2027.

Under the agreed commercial framework, Ocado and Asda will work closely together in the coming months to enable go live in early 2027. Using Ocado's Smart Platform, Asda will be able to offer a full range of online services, including scheduled and short lead-time orders, as well as click & collect. Asda will also use Ocado's platform to fulfil and deliver orders placed through aggregator platforms such as Uber Eats, Deliveroo, and Just Eat.

The transaction is not expected to have material financial impact in FY26. Ocado expects to turn cash flow positive during the second half of this financial year, positively.

impacting full year cash flow in FY27.

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