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ALDI ramps up WA recruitment drive

ALDI Australia is recruiting for more than 400 positions across Perth and its surrounds, as it prepares for its Western Australian expansion this year. The retailer has opened applications for trainee store manager...

Woolworths reaches China with Tmall Global

The Australian retailer has launched its online store on Tmall Global, the overseas platform of Alibaba Group’s B2C Tmall business in China, which will enable Chinese consumers to order a range of...

Australia hosts global retail powers

Thirty-nine of the world’s top 250 retailers now operate in Australia and Woolworths and Wesfarmers remain the only local names included in the ranking, according to the 2016 Global Powers of Retailing...

Shopper convenience the top retail development driver

Price competition is significant now, but expected to lose importance. Convenience is now considered the number one influencer on retail development globally, according to GfK’s latest retail trend monitor of 544 retail professionals. Ranked seventh most important influencer in...

Five retail trends for Australia in 2016

The Australian retail industry is under significant pressure from consumer-based forces such as increasingly diverse customer segments, the rise of the digital generation and the non-stop customer journey. Despite these pressures, the Australian retail sector...

Colourful start to summer

Coca-Cola has introduced colour changing packaging that makes the products themselves ‘Come Alive’ with colour. The temperature-controlled designs feature on most packaging variants, including 250ml cans, 390ml, 600ml, 1lt, 1.25lt PET, and 2lt and frozen cups. The packaging transforms with colour...

2015 Year in review

January Coles to pay $10 million in penalties for unconscionable conduct. Woolworths faces heat over supplier relations. Consumer sentiment plunges. CCA restructure – up to 260 jobs to go. Technology retailers reinvigorate the...

Tassal launches breakfast and snacking options

Recent consumer research commissioned by Tassal shows that only 50 per cent of Australians prepare and eat salmonat home. To raise this figure, the brand has launched Salmon Rashers – a solution for breakfast...

Tip Top shows off new brand identity

The entire Tip Top range of more than 30 SKUs has been given a fresh new look and masterbrand identity. George Weston Foods commissioned Sydney agency Saltmine Design Group to reimagine design across the range, resulting in a contemporary yet...

Australia’s online grocery market set to double

Grocery sales via the internet in Australia are expected to increase to $5.8 billion in 2020 from their current value of $2.6 billion. Online share set to exceed four per cent by 2020 Although retailers down under have been slower...

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