Tag: Retail

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.

Many forward-thinking businesses have spent a lot of money on beautiful branding websites that showcase what they do, how they do it, who they do it for and so on, but are they missing an opportunity to develop an additional revenue stream?

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.

Last week, I was in the position of having to decide between two very similar products from competing businesses. One had a slightly higher price but it also had a customer guarantee. The guarantee made the decision for me, why would I choose to buy from the business that wasn’t offering me the safety net of the other?

Franchised Food Company (FFCo) has acquired Nutshack, the leading Australian retailer of nuts, confectionery and dried fruits.

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?

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.

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

Comodo, the company probably best known for their PC software firewall solutions has announced the latest version of their HackerProof solution for e-commerce merchants.

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