Heart of England Co-op has achieved a 17.2 per cent increase in its trading surplus and a like for like sales improvement of 7.2 per cent over the 21 weeks to June 14th.


Co-operative Group Chief Executive Peter Marks has revealed that the ground-breaking ruling by the Office of Fair Trading not to refer the society’s £1.565 billion bid for Somerfield to the Competition Commission was a “knife-edge decision”.