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Coles and global technology leader Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership aimed at transforming the shopping experience and improving productivity across the business. What’s the plan? The long-term partnership involves Coles migrating its applications to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, as well as deploying Microsoft’s Dynamic 365 enterprise resource planning …

Coles online service has marked two decades, starting from a single Melbourne warehouse to become a $1 billion business. Coles Online launched in 1999, just a few years after dial-up internet connections became widely available to Australian homes and almost a decade before the first smartphones hit the market. At …

Coles has opened the seventh round of the Coles Nurture Fund to allow small to medium businesses to apply for grants. Farmers and food producers can apply for financial assistance of up to $500,000 to develop new products, processes and technologies. Focus on innovation Coles’ focus is on small and medium …

Following a national campaign on pork sales, Coles and its pork producers have raised nearly $520,000 to fight Motor Neurone Disease (MND). FightMND campaign Coles donated 10 cents from every sale of around 40 different items of Coles Brand pork across more than 800 Coles supermarkets during a six-week fundraising …

Coles is partnering with the Heart Foundation to encourage Australians to look after their hearts, launching an awareness drive to Coles’ 21 million weekly customers. The partnership comes as Coles rolls out Automated External Defibrillators (AED) to all Coles supermarkets across Australia. AEDs have already been installed at 37 Coles …

The winner of the Joe Berry Australian Retail Industry Executive Award was announced at a ceremony in Sydney last night. Alec Renehan from Coles emerged triumphant. His essay and presentation on ‘managing the last mile problem’ was a favourite among the panel of judges during the event’s presentation session, which …

Coles’ revamped Prahran supermarket opened on Wednesday and is set to create about 50 new jobs as part of Coles’ $120m investment into Victoria this year. The opening celebration included speeches, cake, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a performance from the Prahran Windsor Primary School choir before the doors opened at …

Coles has announced its refreshed strategy to deliver on its vision of becoming the most trusted retailer in Australia. Speaking at Coles’ first Investor Day since listing on the ASX in November 2018, Group CEO Steven Cain said the business wants to sustainably feed all Australians to help them lead …

Australians can join the fight against hunger this winter by supporting Coles’ national appeal for food rescue organisation, SecondBite. Over the next four weeks, Coles will launch a national fundraising appeal – $2 fundraising cards – to raise funds for SecondBite’s ongoing operating expenses: fuel, transport and refrigeration. Coles and …

Supermarkets and Priceline are doing battle for the Australian cosmetics market, says Roy Morgan – and Priceline is gaining the edge. According to Roy Morgan’s latest data, Priceline has continued to grow its market share. Now, almost one in four Australian women (23.3 per cent) who buy cosmetics buy from …