Thursday, April 25, 2024

Yorkshire law firm Gordons appointed by Ocado Retail

Retail specialist law firm Gordons has been hired by Ocado Retail, the joint venture between Ocado Group and Marks & Spencer, to advise on a range of legal requirements.

Gordons now acts for seven of the UK’s top 14 grocery businesses including B&M, Iceland and Morrisons.

Ocado Retail’s stated ambition is to be the biggest online grocer in the UK and Gordons has been appointed to help the business achieve that objective.

The law firm’s scope of work has increased over time and includes advising on supply chain relationships and commercial contracts.

Ocado Retail’s General Counsel and Chief People Officer, Jonathan Wiseman, said: “We regard Gordons as one of the leading retail and grocery law firms in the UK. They understand Ocado Retail, where we want to be and how to help us get there.

“Our relationship is evolving and growing as we work together, and we are very pleased to have the firm as an adviser as we continue on our growth journey.”

Ocado Retail is responsible for ocado.com and Ocado Zoom, the group’s fast-growing, same-day grocery service.

Gordons partner and head of food and drink, Mark Jones, said: “Ocado Retail is an exciting business with a clear growth strategy. We are looking forward to helping the business continue to outperform the market and offer an unrivalled online grocery buying experience.”

Employing 170 people, Gordons has offices in Leeds and Bradford. The firm’s other retail clients include AO, Moss Bros and Wren Kitchens.

A message from the Editor:

Thank you for reading this story on our news site - please take a moment to read this important message:

As you know, our aim is to bring you, the reader, an editorially led news site and magazine but journalism costs money and we rely on advertising, print and digital revenues to help to support them.

With the Covid-19 pandemichaving a major impact on our industry as a whole, the advertising revenues we normally receive, which helps us cover the cost of our journalists and this website, have been drastically affected.

As such we need your help. If you can support our news sites/magazines with either a small donation of even £1, or a subscription to our magazine, which costs just £31.50 per year, (inc p&P and mailed direct to your door) your generosity will help us weather the storm and continue in our quest to deliver quality journalism.

As a subscriber, you will have unlimited access to our web site and magazine. You'll also be offered VIP invitations to our events, preferential rates to all our awards and get access to exclusive newsletters and content.

Just click here to subscribe and in the meantime may I wish you the very best.








Latest news

Related news