Woolworths has announced plans to exit its home improvement business, Masters Home Improvement and Home Timber & Hardware, while Wesfarmers is seeking to acquire the UK’s second largest home improvement and garden...
Over the past five years, it’s been each city’s first store that has most accelerated the growth in total Australian shoppers, trended consumer retail data from Roy Morgan Research shows.
In the year to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
