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‘Walmart model’ driving competition and change in Australian retail

IBISWorld reveals trends in supermarkets and fuel retailing as supermarket and grocery stores industry revenue tops $88 billion. Collectively, Australia’s supermarket and grocery stores and fuel retailing industries will generate an estimated $125.1...

Wesfarmers announces first-quarter retail sales results

Coles’ headline food and liquor sales increased 4.7 per cent to $7.6 billion during the first quarter of FY16, with growth in customer transactions and fresh participation, according to parent company Wesfarmers’...

Eliminating excess stock

No matter what time of year, businesses are looking at ways to maximise sales but are stuck with excess stock that’s been going nowhere. Depending on the nature of the business, a company may have products...

Primo celebrates 30 years

Primo, a much-loved Australian smallgoods brand, is celebrating its 30th year of operation in 2015. Millions of people have enjoyed Primo’s wide variety of authentic deli meats prepared from traditional family recipes, cementing the Primo brand as a...

Turning to a new PM for the right effect

The past weeks have seen an upheaval in our political environment and a new prime minister in Malcolm Turnbull. For retailers, there are many flow-on effects from the change of government, but key to this is...

Multipack Food opens for business

Multipack’s new food manufacturing and packing plant at Ingleburn in southern Sydney adds options for food-grade, fully certified contract packing. David Burton reports. Multipack opened its Ingleburn facility officially on Friday, September 11, although the operation had...

Sydney embraces the return of Fine Food Australia

Making its home among the memories of champions at Olympic Park, Fine Food Australia returned to Sydney on September 20-23 for its 31st year and an Olympic-sized celebration of the food industry. Welcoming...

Ski D’Lite celebrates healthy families

Ski D’Lite says it has made it even easier for Aussie families to enjoy a healthy start to the day, with the relaunch of the popular yoghurt range with 25 per cent...

Nutri-Grain unveils revamped recipe

Kellogg Australia has revamped its Nutri-Grain range, keeping the same “much-loved” flavours but with added fibre and less sodium and sugar. With its new recipe, Nutri-Grain Original receives a Health Star Rating of...

Major beer merger attempt

UK-based brewer SABMiller has accepted a takeover bid by Anheuser-Busch (AB) InBev of around £68 billion ($148.11 billion). Belgium-based AB InBev has made five attempts to secure the British brewer in recent weeks...

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