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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Moody's sounds alarm on Asda's credit rating as sales and market share slump again

Joe Wicks has fronted up Asda’s new price cutting campaign - (Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures Ltd)

Struggling Asda’s credit rating is under threat if the supermarket fails to turn around its poor performance, agency Moody’s warned today.

It said retail veteran Allan Leighton, who was brought back to run the “big four” grocer again in November, nearly a quarter of a century after he left, must urgently sort out the company’s operational problems.

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