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Leading drinks companies pledge to cut sugar by 20 per cent

Australia’s non-alcoholic drinks companies say they’re taking the lead in supporting a healthier nation by cutting sugar. The Australian Beverages Council, the peak body representing the non-alcoholic beverages industry, has made a commitment...

Woolworths swallows up over half the dollars spent on packaged alcohol

A new report by Roy Morgan has underlined Woolworths’ dominance in packaged-alcohol sales. Of the $15.5 billion dollars’ worth of alcohol bought in Australia, nearly three-quarters of it (74.3 per cent) is bought...

Boom in online shopping driven by ‘less affluent’

Although e-commerce is rising among all Australians, it’s the less wealthy who are driving this growth, according to new research. Roy Morgan has already found that online shopping is growing strongly, with 9.46...

Woolworths steps up to bat in new cricket partnership

Woolworths is set to become a partner in a brand-new community-level junior program for the sport. Next month, the supermarket will launch its new program ‘Woolworths Cricket Blast’, to be run by Cricket...

Why Victorians are wasters

New research shows that Victorians chuck out food that equates to a cost of $5.4 billion every year. The research, commissioned by Sustainability Victoria, has found young Victorians and parents with children are...

Foodstuffs North Island teams up with JDA

New Zealand’s largest retail grocery organisation is joining forces with JDA Software Inc to improve its operations. Foodstuffs North Island is partnering with JDA Software Inc to use JDA Transport Management across its...

Skyn’s new way to ‘save intimacy’

Skyn has announced a new global marketing campaign, Save Intimacy, which it says is about celebrating technology that brings people together. The campaign rolls out with a brand film that transports audiences to...

Amazon Prime launches in Australia

Prime is Amazon’s membership program, which the company claims is used by more than 100 million paid members around the world, offering free delivery on eligible items. Amazon claims the new service will...

Woolworths opens fifth Sydney Metro store

Woolworths has opened a new Metro store in The Sydney Arcade at 400 George Street. The supermarket chain’s fifth Metro store in the Sydney CBD, the 1,240sqm space is intended as a “grab-and-go”...

Woolworths ditches single-use shopping bags

Woolworths has announced that it’s single-use plastics bags have been removed from its stores, nationally. With the rest of Australia’s supermarkets gearing up to stop using plastic bags on July 1, 2018, it...

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