· UK & ROI: Strong Christmas benefiting from an increasingly competitive offer for customers
o UK & ROI Christmas LFL sales +2.6%, outperforming market in UK in both volume and value terms
- Quality and value perception1 both up significantly year-on-year: +3.5pts and +4.5pts respectively
- Market outperformance in all key categories: food, clothing and general merchandise
o UK & ROI 3Q LFL sales +1.9% reflecting transition to new own brands and subsequent resetting of mix in UK
- 'Exclusively at Tesco' roll-out 95% complete by end-3Q, with 82% of customers buying into the range
o Booker delivering strong growth (LFL excl. tobacco: 3Q 10.7%; Christmas 8.2%); contract wins last year annualise early in Christmas period
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