Tag: Retail

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.

Big W has come to an agreement with the ACCC and will pay $400,000 in contributions to charity and research after breaching fire labelling laws for children’s clothes.

Small grocery stores must implement strong marketing strategies that focus on lower prices in order to compete with the supermarket duopoly research has found.