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Lidl GB reported a 10% increase in sales to over £13 billion for the year ended February, with pre-tax profit growing by 30% to £245.5 million. The company attributed its success to price cuts and the popularity of its Deluxe range, which saw a 12% rise in sales as consumers preferred dining at home due to high inflation rates. Lidl's market share surpassed Morrisons' to reach 8.6%, positioning it as the fifth-largest grocer in Great Britain, partly due to slower performance from Asda and Morrisons following their private equity acquisitions.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-05,
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Story summary
Lidl, a German-owned supermarket chain, saw its sales in Great Britain increase by 10% to more than £13 billion this year, driven by shoppers seeking out cheaper fresh produce and the popularity of its Deluxe range. The Deluxe range, Lidl's own-label collection of premium food, home, and beauty products, experienced a 12% year-on-year sales increase. This helped Lidl GB surpass Morrisons to become the fifth largest grocer in Great Britain with an 8.6% market share for the 12 weeks ending May 17, according to Worldpanel by Numerator data. Lidl also reported a pre-tax profit of £245.5 million for the year ended February, up from £156.8 million previously. The company attributed its growth partly to significant investments in price cuts and promotions, noting that around 43 million more customers visited their shops during this period.
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Lidl’s sales in Great Britain jumped 10% to more than £13bn this year, as shoppers sought out cheaper fresh meat, fruit and vegetables and snapped up its Deluxe range.
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shoppers → jump → range
Pre-tax profit at the German-owned supermarket’s arm in Great Britain grew by 30% to £245.5m in the year ended in February, up from £156.8m in the previous year.
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profit → own → year
Shoppers have flocked to discounters such as Lidl amid rising food inflation, with in-store prices stepping up to an annual rate of 1.5% in August, up from 0.9% in July.
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prices → flock → July
Inflation for fresh produce remained high at 3%.
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Inflation → remain → %
Lidl said it had spent £315m on price cuts and promotions such as its “pick of the week” product, while increasing numbers of shoppers were choosing its Deluxe upmarket food range.
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numbers → say → range
“Deluxe sales are up 12% as more households dine in rather than eat out,” the Lidl GB chief executive, Ryan McDonnell, said.
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executive → dine → ?
“Customers are looking to trade up and treat themselves at home.”
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Customers → look → home
This year Lidl beat Morrisons to become the fifth largest grocer in Great Britain, with its market share hitting 8.6% in the 12 weeks to 17 May, according to figures from the market analysts Worldpanel by Numerator.
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share → beat → Numerator
That compared with an 8.3% share for Morrisons, which increased its sales by just 1.3% compared with a year earlier.
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which → compare → %
Aldi and Lidl have grown rapidly, thanks partly to slowing performance at Asda and Morrisons after both were acquired in debt-fuelled private equity deals.
However, Aldi’s growth has slowed recently as Tesco and Sainsbury’s have offered more savings via their loyalty schemes and ranges that match the German discounter on price.
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that → grow → price
Lidl said performance at its loyalty programme Lidl Plus had been particularly strong, with a 23% rise in participants this year.
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performance → say → participants
The analyst Clive Black, the vice-chair at the broker Shore Capital, said that was in contrast to Aldi “where management has a clear strategy to deride such programmes”.
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management → say → programmes
Aldi is the only big supermarket chain in the UK that does not offer operate a loyalty scheme.
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that → offer → scheme
This month the boss of Aldi UK, Giles Hurley, criticised some loyalty discounts that he said tricked customers by starting with “unrealistically high prices” that then dropped.
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that → criticise → prices
He told BBC News that discounts were helpful “when they’re real and when they show realistic reductions”, but criticised what he described as unrealistic reductions which “dupe customers”.
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which → tell → customers
The UK’s competition watchdog investigated loyalty pricing schemes at supermarkets in 2024 and found that shoppers “almost always make a genuine saving”.
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shoppers → investigate → saving
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