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January
Rip Curl, Kathmandu sales recover, but earnings tipped to fall
Sales through Black Friday and the Christmas trading period improved but parent group KMD Brands is still facing a big drop in first-half earnings.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Updated
- Retail
Wesfarmers to shut Catch amid stiff competition from Temu, Amazon
The rise of big international players has prompted the retail giant to wind down the loss-making marketplace, saying it’s the “right thing for shareholders”.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why Wesfarmers killed Catch.com.au
For a brief moment, it seemed Wesfarmers had found a winner when it bought online retail pioneer Catch Group. But it got two things wrong.
- James Thomson
CEOs reveal how to fix the productivity problem
Business reckons it’s ready to invest to help bolster living standards for all Australians. It just needs some policy help.
- Updated
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
December 2024
Stuck for gift ideas? Here are 56 popular items this Christmas
Australian shoppers are spending with surprising gusto on gadgets, appliances, fashionable drink bottles, cosmetics gift sets and cult skincare products.
- Simon Evans and Carrie LaFrenz
- Exclusive
- Retail
The Kmart wizard who wants to take Anko to the world
The discount store’s own brand was founded in 2019 and now sells more than a billion items every year. Ian Bailey is about to take it global.
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Analysis
- AGM season
Wine, coffee and shortbread biscuits: Inside this year’s AGM season
“Why can’t you pay dividends in gold instead of cash?” one investor asked the mining company’s board. “I want to hang a chunk from a necklace.”
- Mark Wembridge
- Opinion
- The AFR View
The treasurer must ask what he can do for business
Jim Chalmers is asking business to dig Australia’s economy out of the hole. But he also needs to say what he is going to do to help businesses invest and lift the nation’s embarrassingly poor productivity.
- The AFR View
- Updated
- Executive shake-up
Wesfarmers shuffles the decks to double down on Kmart, Anko Global
The move involves the department store’s CFO, Aleksandra Spaseska, being elevated to the top job. Her predecessor will focus on expanding the Anko brand.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
Victoria’s asset sale; MinRes’ gag request; Wesfarmers’ rates alert
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Wesfarmers CEO: ‘We can’t just wait around for rates to fall’
As Rob Scott says goodbye to an unsung hero of his own investment success, he says Australia’s tepid GDP growth can be a rallying point for the private sector.
- James Thomson
Bunnings hits back over market share claims
The Wesfarmers-owned retailer says assertions that it controls 70 per cent of plant sales in Australia are wrong.
- Tom McIlroy
November 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Don’t be fooled by those Black Friday deals
The imported phenomenon of Black Friday seems to get bigger each year. It’s all part of a psychological game of cat and mouse between retailers and shoppers.
- James Thomson
- 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
WA unveils $150m lithium rescue package
The West Australian government has unveiled a $150 million rescue package for the state’s struggling lithium sector.
- Tom Rabe and Mark Wembridge
Domino’s shares more attractive than Guzman y Gomez: Morningstar
The investment research house has tipped the embattled pizza seller and Endeavour, the operator of Dan Murphy’s, as attractive alternatives as rivals get pricey.
- Joanne Tran
- 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
Bunnings defends facial recognition after privacy breach
The privacy commissioner rules Bunnings breached its customers’ privacy, but retailer says the technology was to protect staff and stop theft.
- Paul Smith
- Exclusive
- Private equity
Greencross names new CEO as TPG eyes exit path
The new chief executive of the vet clinics and Petbarn and City Farmers pet stores arrives amid intense competition from Woolworths and other big retailers.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Why retail was the Bunnings MD’s third career choice, and why he stayed
Michael Schneider found doing the thing he was passionate about helped make his career much more worthwhile than seeing it as a job with a fortnightly pay.
- Sally Patten and Lap Phan