According to Asda, it moved off Walmart's SAP ERP system to a new instance of S/4HANA hosted in Microsoft Azure in January ...

The cost of Asda’s IT separation from Walmart is nearing £1 billion, with the retailer allocating an additional £175 million to complete the project.

Walmart founder's son John Walton, who was the world's 11th richest man was found dead shortly after taking off his flight ...

during which time he was credited with a successful turnaround of the business and its acquisition by Walmart in 1999. “Everyone is focused on making Asda the number one choice again for busy ...

Asda has launched a fresh round of job cuts as the grocer races to axe workers involved in a botched £800m IT upgrade that had been championed by co-owner Mohsin Issa. More than 200 employees have ...

If there's anyone who understands Asda it's arguably former chief executive and current chair Allan Leighton. But times have changed since he last was at the helm and competition is fierce.

Asda has axed hundreds of jobs connected to a troubled £800m IT upgrade. More than 200 employees working on the separation of the supermarket’s IT system from former owner Walmart were dismissed this ...

The retailer has spent much of the past year untangling thousands of programmes responsible for its checkouts, administration and payroll from those of Walmart. Asda had hired hundreds of workers ...

Analysts say Asda has been hampered by the cost of servicing debt taken on when Mohsin and Zuber Issa and TDR bought 90% of the group from Walmart, which still holds the remaining 10%, in a 6.8 ...

Mr Leighton was at Asda eight years, latterly as chief executive, and spearheaded a revival that culminated in it being sold to US giant Walmart for more than £6billion. He is hoping to work his ...

This was despite another round of redundancies announced this week, with 200 staff losing their jobs, many of those having been involved with its Project Future programme following the decoupling from ...

His pledge last month to get the business “firing on all cylinders again” by cutting prices on thousands of items sparked a sell-off in the shares of competitors Tesco (TSCO), J Sainsbury (SBRY) and ...