What surprises me at these retail prices is the high cost of feeding a baby in China. How do those prices compare to baby formula in NZ or OZ.?
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What surprises me at these retail prices is the high cost of feeding a baby in China. How do those prices compare to baby formula in NZ or OZ.?
My father bought over some milk powder from NZ last time he visited, cost in NZ was $30 NZD, but we saw them in HK for $500 HKD - about 2 and a half times the price. Pretty shabby really. But you don't use that much, a 900 gram container lasted my sister in law 6 months already as she mixes it up with breastfeeding too, which is what most women here do, I have heard.
Hmmm I asked a staff member at bi- lo last night for the price of the A2 baby and follow on formula- she scanned them and told me they were both $33 - have they priced the follow on formula wrongly? I only asked cos I could see she was a manager and used it to point out that they had no price tags on the shelves and that they are two seperate products (presented as 1 and terribly at that). Hopefully its better moving forward. On the bright side A2 milk completely sold out (aling with a few others) as all the city folk & tourists arrived for the holidays!
Announcement from A2 on FaceBook UK: Milk is now available to buy in all Morrisons, Booths & Budgens stores, plus major Tescos & Waitrose outlets.
Does anyone know which of the above is the new stores they are now selling in, I can't seem to find out. Below is some basic info for each store from wikipedia.
Morrisons = 500 stores UK wide - Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc is the fourth largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom,[2] headquartered in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.[3] The company is usually referred to and is branded as Morrisons, and it is part of the FTSE 100 Index of companies. Morrisons's market share as of August 2013 was 11.3%, making it the smallest of the "Big Four" supermarkets, behind Tesco (30.1%), Sainsbury's (16.6%) and Asda(16.4%), but ahead of the fifth place Co-operative Group, which had a share of 4.4%
Booths = it boasted 28 stores across the region in 2011 - Booths is a chain of supermarkets in Northern England. Most of its branches are located in Lancashire, but there are also branches inCheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire. Booths attempt to compete on quality as opposed to just price. It has been developed on the motto "to sell the best quality goods in shops staffed by first class assistants".
Budgens = The stores range in size from around 140m² to around 900m²[citation needed], and therefore fall into the convenience store size range and the bottom end of the supermarket size range, as these two terms are used in the United Kingdom. According to retail analysts TNS Worldpanel, Budgens ranked 13th in the United Kingdom grocery sector in December 2004, with a market share of 0.4%
Tescos = Over 3000 stores Uk wide and 30% market share
Waitrose = is an upmarket chain of British supermarkets, forming the food retail division of Britain's largest employee-owned retailer, the John Lewis Partnership. As of October 2013, Waitrose has 300 branches across the United Kingdom,[3]including 30 "little Waitrose" convenience stores, and a 4.9% share of the market, making it the sixth-largest grocery retailer in the UK
Latest grocers' market shares (November 2013 and 2012)
Tesco 29.8% 30.5%
Asda 17.2% 17.6%
Sainsbury's 16.8% 16.9%
Morrisons 11.5% 11.7%
The Co-operative 6.3% 6.5%
Waitrose 4.8% 4.6%
Aldi 3.9% 3.0%
Lidl 3.0% 2.7%
Iceland 2.0% 2.0%
It is pleasing isn’t it Hilskin that ATM seem to be growing right across the retail market, as I understand they’ve been selling in all those stores since early to mid 2013.
The more I reflect on the buyout of the Weismann JV the more I reflect on just how much ATM benefited at market entry from all the Weismann retail contacts, access and the clout that their 30% A1 fresh milk market share provided.
Now ATM have a foot in the UK door, and as you point out, some depth to build on, it’s looking like a pretty good opportunity to reap a full share of forward growth, onward and upward toward the $280M revenues by 2016 target!.
Iceman, there is a 'find a store' feature on the UK website.
http://www.a2milk.co.uk/a2-store-finder
There are thousands of supermarkets, it's early days yet but A2 is in around a 1,000 stores or so thus far, not sure about South Wales ?.
Thanks for that website MAC. This was just a quick glance from me at supermarkets that I happened to pass. Gave me a good excuse to get away from wife and daughters doing Christmas shopping. They looked for clothes and I looked for A2 milk :)
I am a very content long term holder of ATM and very pleased with their progress in the UK.