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Foster’s Group Limited (Foster’s) has signed long-term distribution agreements with Southern Wine & Spirits in three of the largest U.S. markets, with the new contracts effective July 1st.

The International Organization for Standardization has released a new edition of ISO 9001 for Small Businesses. The new edition of the popular handbook has been updated to include changes to ISO 9001 published in 2008. The handbook is the third edition in a series that helps small businesses understand and implement the ISO standard for quality management systems.

Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has reached agreement with BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto over increased iron ore royalties, mocking Kevin Rudd’s proposed RSPT.

Apple has released the iOS 4 iPhone update world wide, bringing a raft of updates to the 3G/3GS as well as much anticipated multitasking support to the iPhone 3GS.

Telstra will launch the LG Optimus Android smartphone in Australia tomorrow, finally bringing a mid-market Android phone to Australia below the HTC Desire flagship device for Telstra.

VicRoads has finalised contracts with Theiss to construct Victoria’s M80 Ring Road Upgrade between the Calder Freeway and Sydney Road, worth $623m to Theiss.

Telstra today named the finalists in the 2010 Telstra NSW Business Awards, with a shortlist of 20 NSW small and medium businesses named.

Has your business made a change or introduced a strategy to improve the opportunities for those with disability? Is there an employee in your business that is the driving force behind these changes?

Prospects for small businesses appear to be looking up post-GFC in Australia, yet the attitudes held by business owners towards banks has not recovered.

After the decades of participating in training, it has been drilled into me that women usually have greater empathy than men. Females will outstrip men’s ability in putting themselves in a prospects or employees shoes – especially when talking about family issues and challenges.

Well Mr Trainer I now beg to differ, as does one of my friends.

It is the corporate version of the tortoise and the hare, but with the backing of its multi-million dollar mother company Australian sports drink icon Staminade plans to regain ground in the race for national sports drink supremacy.

Australian retail sales were flat over the month of May, with retailers half-yearly sales failing to attract shoppers, according to the latest Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI).

Telstra will come on board for the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN), after signing a non-binding Financial Heads of Agreement with NBN Co.

I was having a tidy out of my wallet last night and kept coming across customer loyalty card after customer loyalty card. Some of them were for places I frequent often and have given me a lot back over the years but it got me thinking, do I feel loyal to a business just because of its reward programme?

Bunnings Warehouse has fired the first salvo in its war against soon to be rival Woolworths in a joint venture with Lowe’s, accusing it of circumventing planning and zoning laws.

Last night almost 700 CEOs and business leaders raised over two million dollars taking part in St Vincent de Paul’s CEO Sleepout.

The Federal Government’s Paid Parental Leave bill that passed the Senate yesterday has received mostly bipartisan support, as well as its fair share of criticism.

Despite a steady increase in the number of small businesses operating in Australia, potential clients are still prioritising relationships with larger companies.

Fitness industry customers want no-fixed contract memberships, and more communication on Facebook, according to a recent 2010 Australian Fitness Industry Survey.

Telstra is using its Innovation Challenge to search for new research and development projects to support in 2010.