Retail

ALDI has announced a partnership with Planet Ark to bring carbon footprint labelling to supermarkets, an Australian first for retailers.

New Zealand Gelato store Giapo is cashing in on the gulf oil spill crisis with a ‘BP Oil Spill’ flavoured gelato that aims to raise money for the affected area.

Australian businesses are tipped to cash in on the FIFA World Cup this year, with merchandisers, retailers, football organisations and bookmakers expected to take home tidy profits.

Metcash Limited, the the operator of IGA Supermarkets, Mitre 10 Hardware stores and Cellarbrations Liquor has posted a record profit up 12.4 percent from $227.6 million for the year.

Consumers are faced with an ever-increasing variety of choice of where to shop. What makes a customer choose to shop in your store over another?

Leading bakery franchise Bakers Delight understands the importance of a decent company website.

Harvey Norman has embraced Twitter as a sales tool, with chief operations officer John Slack-Smith has detailed the company’s online strategy at CeBIT 2010 yesterday.

Trish Watt, General Manager of Australian Retail for internationally renown brand Pumpkin Patch, has been nominated for the 2010 Telstra Business Women’s Awards.

Clive Peeters directors have been forced to call in administrator McGrath Nicol due to a mounting debt burden and collapsing sales.

The Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), will simplify its rules for direct deals between composers and users under an authorisation granted today by the ACCC.

Costco have been given planning approval by the NSW State Government for a second massive supermarket in Australia, this time in Auburn, Sydney.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission today announced further agreements with major supermarket operators to phase out restrictive provisions in supermarket leases. The ACCC has reached agreement with ALDI Foods, Franklins, SPAR Australia, Australian United Retailers Limited (trading as Foodworks) and Metcash Limited that they will not enter into any new leasing agreement which includes […]

The heavy discounting offered over the Christmas period will continue into the new year but isn’t expected to eat into the retailer’s margins, said Myer chief executive officer Bernie Brookes. Brookes said Myer’s sales for the month of December were dragged down by the electrical and entertainment goods categories. Those categories had received a boost […]

Australian fashion stationery label kikki.K has been nominated for the Retail Innovation award in the World Retail Awards, to be held in Germany in April. Nominated by the Worth Global Style Network (WGSN), the fashion and style industry’s leading resource for trend analysis and forecasting, kikki.K has the personal backing of WGSN’s managing director Asia […]

An area in south-west Brisbane, Queensland, is determined to lure away businesses from Melbourne and Sydney in a battle of the buck. Greater Springfield is planning a conversion from a greenfields site to a community with intent on building a 390ha CBD featuring global businesses. Launching the We Mean Business campaign, developers revealed a survey […]

With global uncertainty on the political, financial and retail fronts, several new trends are emerging that will have a significant impact on Australian retail. There are five global retail trends in particular that all retailers must be aware of!

With unemployment increasing and business closures a daily event, many businesses are turning to discounting in order to lure the customers in. But is this actually the right thing to do?

Customer service is the biggest retail cliché around. NOBODY ever disagrees with its relative importance, even though hardly anybody can quote any real evidence as to why it works, and very rarely prove its efficacy anyway.

Retailers employ different strategies to boost sales and profits. The three listed below are interesting for different reasons, but they do raise an interesting ethical dilemma.

A trend that’s really emerged in the first half of this year is the stay-at-home vacation – the ‘staycation’. This is where people spend money on products to make their home a hub of comfort in tough times. So how can retailers take advantage of this trend?