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Notification regarding unquoted securities - COL
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Dec 5, 2024
- 6 pages
Change of Director's Interest Notice - L Weckert
Change of Director’s Interest Notice
- Dec 5, 2024
- 5 pages
This Month
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Overtime rates for retail workers could be axed in employer push
Major supermarkets and other retailers have joined a case to exempt senior staff from award conditions, waive “outdated” smoko breaks and allow split shifts.
- David Marin-Guzman
December 2024
SPC bets Australian-made can outflank cheap Italian tomatoes
Robert Iervasi ran Australia’s biggest beer group selling Victoria Bitter and Carlton Draught. The newest face on the ASX wants to be just as iconic.
- Simon Evans
Why grapes (for eating) are so expensive
Australians are increasing consumption of table grapes in a near $1 billion industry whose exports to China were unscathed when the wine industry was hit hard by tariffs.
- Simon Evans
$3 hot dogs and a mini-shop behind $1.2b petrol bet
Service stations with the lot have arrived in Sydney as part of Viva Energy’s national rollout of the OTR brand, in a makeover that is 30 years overdue.
- Simon Evans
Canva, Cotton On and Atlassian among the top 20 corporate givers
The amount of funds donated by the top 50 corporate philanthropists has jumped to $1.7 billion.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Business People of the Year
Weckert stamps her mark on Coles amid tumultuous year for supermarkets
Leah Weckert, one of the Business People of the Year for 2024, has fared well amid a barrage of criticism from politicians over grocery prices.
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Opinion
- Business People of the Year
Humble starts, billion-dollar deals unite Business Person of the Year winners
Founders of Chemist Warehouse Jack Gance, Sam Gance and Mario Verrocchi, and AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda take the top prize for 2024.
- James Thomson
The $180m mall Woolies liked so much it bought it
Woolworths’ big buy in Sydney’s west shows the price it’s prepared to pay as it jostles with its rivals for the best position in suburbs across the nation.
- Campbell Kwan and Nick Lenaghan
Amazon is quietly turning into a major rival for Coles and Woolworths
Goldman Sachs estimates it is now the second-largest online retailer in Australia, but sales are still a fraction of the big supermarkets. Will that change?
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
Supermarket giants use the $5 Oreo to argue their discounts are real
The ACCC has accused Woolworths and Coles of misleading shoppers. The retailers say the regulator doesn’t understand how pricing works.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What’s really at stake in Coles and Woolies’ pricing fight with ACCC
Coles and Woolworths know they’ve already lost their fight with the ACCC over allegedly dodgy discounts in the court of public opinion. But there are two reasons they’ll still want a legal victory.
- James Thomson
November 2024
- Exclusive
- Retail
Retail veteran calls out Bunnings ‘monopoly’
Former Woolworths chairman John Dahlsen wants large-format retailers including hardware giant Bunnings to be covered by a mandatory code of conduct.
- Tom McIlroy
- Updated
- Supermarket wars
Coles says focusing only on low prices sent customers away
Appearing at a competition inquiry, chief executive Leah Weckert says experience has shown shoppers want more than just cheap products.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
Shoppers’ anger makes ‘Colesworth’ the word of the year
The language researchers who help compile Oxford University’s Australian dictionaries track the words that have gained prominence over the past 12 months.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Woolworths suppliers put on ‘holiday’ for price pushback, ACCC hears
The competition regulator’s public hearings have been told some producers did not receive any orders from the supermarket if they refused to drop prices.
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The moment the ACCC boss put the heat on Woolies
The competition regulator is clearly sceptical about the way the supermarket giants use discounts, and whether the market is really competitive.
- James Thomson
Inside the two weeks from hell for the country’s biggest supermarkets
This week, Woolworths chief executive Amanda Bardwell and Coles’ Leah Weckert will have a chance to tell their side of the story in hearings run by the ACCC.
- Tom McIlroy and Carrie LaFrenz
Supermarkets face earnings crunch if loyalty schemes are dismantled
Macquarie warns of a drag on the performance of Coles and Woolworths if the competition watchdog disrupts their customer retention programs.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Coles chairman says cost of living has been ‘politicised’
James Graham told the comapny’s AGM that supermarkets are being targeted unfairly by politicians.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Aldi proves populism won’t cut grocery prices
Breaking up Coles and Woolworths makes for a populist soundbite, but Aldi’s evidence at the ACCC supermarket inquiry suggests it wouldn’t drive grocery prices down.
- Updated
- James Thomson