The NSW Government yesterday hosted a major business roundtable to help develop the State’s sustainable retail market, with Marks & Spencer – one of the overseas leaders in corporate social...

The world’s ninth largest retailer has today opened its long-awaited first store in Australia within the Docklands precinct of Melbourne. The warehouse retailer, which sells everything from branded...

The world’s largest grocer and retailer, Walmart, has seen profits rise despite the advent of a “new normal” in shopper behaviour that kept sales flat. Sales fell 1.4 per cent, with CEO...

Country Road, Aldi and independent retailer Allspares and Bearings were lat night announced as national winners of the 2009 ARA Australian Retail Awards. Clothing outlet Country Road took out the retail...

Updated 10:00am Monday August 10 Australia’s largest specialty chicken retailer, Lenard’s, yesterday announced that the gross profit of its franchised stores rose to 52.44 per cent in the...

Retail Food Group, one of Australian’s largest retail food brand managers and franchisors, has today announced a 33 per cent surge in net profit after tax as consumer demand for comfort food fails...

The winners of the I Love Food Awards for 2009 have been announced, with sushi bar Zushi in Sydney’s Darlinghurst claiming the top honour as Australian’s favourite eatery. Over 100,000 votes...

Cafés, restaurants and takeaway stores (C/R/TS) recorded their worst monthly sales performance of the year, along with general food retailing – which includes grocers, bakeries, fishmongers and...

The Food Business Forum, which brings together management from around 400 retailers and manufacturers operating in 150 countries, recently released a mid-year update to its annual Top of Mind report, discovering...

Ireland’s food retailers have a “responsibility” to support a “viable” Irish food processing sector, the country’s agriculture minister has argued. Brendan Smith said...