Woolworths has made a major announcement confirming its plan to sell or close its failed Masters hardware chain.   By a strange twist of fate, the announcement has come at the same time as its competitor...

New Zealand’s Ministry of Primary Industries has said it is concerned about the cost it will take for its nation’s food producers to comply with Australia’s new proposed country of origin labelling...

Outgoing Wesfarmers Chairman Bob Every has said the diversified conglomerate is well positioned to take advantage of future growth opportunities with a strong balance sheet backing the business.   The...

The retail wheel just keeps turning.   There has certainly been plenty of comment around about the poor performance of Woolies, and the various reasons for it, and generally the Masters debacle  gets...

Keeping things simple and focusing on productivity have been listed amongst the reasons for Coles successful first quarter financial results in the 2016 financial year.   Parent company Wesfarmers...

Australia’s delivery logistics landscape is rapidly changing. This creates new opportunities and may create some unexpected impacts for sellers and buyers in the Australian food industry.   A March...

Aldi has responded to insinuation by Wesfarmers Chief Executive Richard Goyder that the supermarket was not meeting their Australian tax obligations. Earlier in the week, Mr Goyder had said at an American...

Chaney returns to Wesfarmers as new Chair Wesfarmers, the ASX-listed copy that owns the Coles supermarket group, has announced the appointment of Michael Chaney as its next Chairman. Previously Wesfarmers...

Wesfarmers acquires remaining stake in Coles Credit Card Wesfarmers has given notice to exercise a call option to acquire the remaining 50 per cent of shares in Wesfarmers Finance Pty Ltd (the holding...

Coles lower prices boost third quarter results for Wesfarmers Wesfarmers Limited has announced “pleasing” retail sales result of $13 billion for the third quarter of the 2015 financial year, which...