Evacuated residents near Ocado fulfilment centre allowed home
Residents near Ocado’s Andover fulfilment centre have been allowed to go home after being evacuated last night because of the fire at the site.
Residents near Ocado’s Andover fulfilment centre have been allowed to go home after being evacuated last night because of the fire at the site.
Ocado has warned that a fire at its robotic logistics centre at Andover is more serious than originally thought.
Ocado has released its preliminary 2018 results which show a 12 per cent increase in retail revenue, 15.8 per cent increase on solutions revenue and 12.3 per cent increase in group revenue.
Ocado has invested £3 million in an onsite natural gas refuelling station at its Hatfield Customer Fulfilment Centre which will reduce its HGV fleet CO2 emissions by 29 per cent annually.
Ocado is now processing an average of 320,000 orders a week – a 13.1 per cent increase on the same period last year.
Grocery sales rose 3.2 per cent £26.3 billion in the 12 weeks to 7th October driven by strong growth at the discounters and online specialist Ocado.
Innovators in logistics robotics drew big audiences at the conference sessions at Robotics and Automation, which saw keynotes from both Ocado and Amazon as well as presentations from technology leaders such as Dematic and ABB.
Alex Harvey, head of robotics and autonomous systems at Ocado, gave the keynote presentation to a packed house at the Robotics and Automation Exhibition in Milton Keynes this morning, highlighting the opportunities and challenges of developing automated and robotic systems for grocery.
Ocado’s revenue increase 11.5 per cent to £348.6 million in the third quarter helped by new capacity at its new robotic warehouses.
Ocado has installed an AutoStore system from Swisslog at a new general merchandising distribution centre in south-east London.