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Eli GreenblatSenior Business Reporter

Eli Greenblat is a senior business reporter at The Australian and leads coverage for the paper on the retail and beverages industries as well as covering issues related to supermarket regulation and competition, consumer behaviour, shopping, online retail and food and grocery suppliers. He has previously written for The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review.

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Toys R Us in Waurn Ponds is in voluntary administration

Toys buy lifts Funtastic growth

Funtastic has reported a strong uplift in sales for its new businesses, including the previously collapsed Toys R Us chain.

Eli Greenblat

RetailBusiness

December 5, Location: 18/1100 Wellington Rd, RowvilleA new IGA store has opened in Rowville, one of only four in the state to offer launch as one of the hugely successful Ritchies Fine Food and Wine Merchant stores. Su Lan at the new IGA bakery.Picture: Stuart Milligan

Metcash back in black after local pivot

Metcash shares jump on promising outlook, after trend to neighbourhood shopping aids ‘unprecedented’ sales growth.

Eli Greenblat

Live: Trading DayTrading Day

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 1, 2020 - The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 and located at the Exchange Centre, 20 Bridge St, Sydney NSW 2000.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles

ASX holds gains, Nuix soars on debut

The ASX has finished the week with its fourth day of gains aided by banks, as Premier suffered a first strike and Nuix soared on debut.

David Rogers and Lachlan Moffet Gray

RetailCompanies

29/11/19 Premier Investments chairman Solomon Lew at their AGM in Melbourne. Aaron Francis/The Australian

Lew defends CEO after Premier ‘strike’

Premier’s Solomon Lew says an apparent AGM protest vote by proxy advisers over CEO Mark McInnes’ pay is unjustified.

Eli Greenblat

Online retailCompanies

09/09/2020. Booktopia CEO Tony Nash, photographed at the company's distribution centre in Lidcombe in Sydney's West. Britta Campion / The Australian

Booktopia bolts on debut, trials robots

Shares in online bookseller Booktopia have debuted on the ASX at a 24pc premium, as it turns to robots to aid its expansion.

Eli Greenblat

RetailCompanies

DEAL-20160415 EMBARGO FOR the DEAL 15 April 2016Ruslan Kogan pic : Hollie Adams

Kogan goes ape in NZ with online buy

Kogan.com expands into New Zealand with the $122.4m purchase of online retailer Mighty Ape, adding almost 900,000 subscribers.

Eli Greenblat

Live: Trading DayTrading Day

Francis Creek mine near Tennant Creek. NT Bullion loads its first overseas shipment of iron ore . It is headed to Port of Darwin SUPPLIED

Iron ore lifts ASX, Macquarie in $2.3bn deal

The ASX rose 0.4pc to a 5-day high on a daily close basis and the $A stayed firm after hitting a more than 2-year high in early trading. Resources led after a jump in iron ore and oil prices

David Rogers and Lachlan Moffet Gray

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