Retailers have been called to adopt sustainability programmes in the same way that they embraced IT ten years ago at the World Retail Congress in Barcelona this week. In an opening presentation at the...

Fair Trade Fortnight, Australia’s biggest annual celebration of all things fair trade, has begun, with a search for Australia’s Most Fairtrade Friendly Supermarket. Fair Trade Association of...

Food retail sales rose again in March, according to the latest ABS data, but the rate of growth has fallen as restaurants and take-away outlets received a more substantial boost. The Australian Retailers...

Retail industry body the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) believes the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has demonstrated good fiscal policy by leaving the official cash rate unchanged at three per...

A Ballina bakery that sold a cockroach in a loaf of bread is the one of 23 premises to appear on the NSW Government’s name and shame list this week, Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said...

A new pilot program launched by Melbourne City Council today is designed to help consumers to make healthy choices about what they eat. The ‘green light, eat right’ program, running at QV Urban...

Today leading restaurateurs met in Sydney to discuss the impact of proposed Award Modernisation laws, which would see the federal hotels award apply to restaurants. The meeting, which included prominent...

Families are cooking more meals at home, cutting back on take away and eating healthier in the face of the economic downturn, a new survey has suggested. Research on the shopping habits of 1500 consumers...

The current recession has created a new niche of consumers identified as the “Downturn Generation”, who are likely to have a major impact on the consumer packaged goods sector. The research,...

The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) has called for the Rudd Government to focus on jobs and strategies to keep prices low in the Federal Budget in May.ARA Executive Director Richard Evans said employment...