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Ocado is a British online supermarket. In contrast to its main competitors, the company has no chain of stores and does all home deliveries from its two warehouses. Ocado has been voted the best online supermarket in the UK by Which? readers every year since 2010.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Supermarkets compared - Best and worst supermarkets - Leisure - Which? Home & garden )〕 The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange on 21 July 2010 and is currently a member of the FTSE 250 Index. It has its headquarters just outside London, in Hatfield, Hertfordshire. ==History== Ocado was founded in April 2000 by Jonathan Faiman, Jason Gissing and Tim Steiner, former merchant bankers with Goldman Sachs. Ocado was launched in January 2000 as a concept and started trading as a business in partnership with Waitrose in January 2002. When the company first started, Faiman, Gissing and Steiner ran every part of the business themselves. In September 2006, Michael Grade became non-executive chairman of Ocado, shortly after Goldman Sachs were appointed as financial advisers. This led to perennial speculation that the business would seek a listing on the stock market. In July 2009 Ocado confirmed it was planning a stock market flotation. In November 2008, the John Lewis Partnership transferred its shareholding of 29% into its staff pension fund. It also agreed a five-year supply deal with the business, replacing its previous one-year rolling deal. This deal was replaced in May 2010 with a 10-year branding and supply agreement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Waitrose and Ocado Announce New 10 Year Branding and Sourcing Deal )〕 Procter & Gamble took a 1% stake in the company the same year. In February 2011, the John Lewis pension fund sold off its entire Ocado shareholding. On 13 July 2009 Ocado released their first app for the iPhone. The app, called 'Ocado on the Go', allows users to do their grocery shopping without the need of a PC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=devoted to your shopping )〕 On 19 April 2010 the company extended the app to Android devices. The Android app has a number of features that the iPhone app does not have, including the ability to control the app using only the voice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ocado」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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