Why Sainsbury’s holds all the cards in any potential supermarket mega-merger

Sainsburys Weymouth store exterior and car park

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Rumours are swirling about potential grocery M&A, and bankers are on manoeuvres. Retail Week evaluates some of the proposals being floated, looks at who exactly is floating them and why Sainsbury’s is the name on everyone’s lips

Talk to just about anyone in the grocery sector now, be it City analysts, bankers, consultants, insiders, observers and everyone in between, and the same topic keeps coming up: the potential for a multi-billion-pound supermarket mega-merger.

 

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