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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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Fast foodCompanies

Business Bcm 29.7.16 - Mei McMullen serving up some KFC at KFC Kelvin Grove.KFC is continuing to snag the fast food dollar - pic Adam Smith

Covid drives fast food changes beyond the drive-through

Accelerated shift to digital platforms and home deliveries witnessed through COVID-19 expected to continue.

Eli Greenblat

COMMENTCompanies

A strong line-up of reds and whites from Penfolds this year, spearheaded by the 2016 Grange which has scored perfect points. Des Houghton pic.

Sobering reminder of the perils of politics

Treasury Wine Estates boss Tim Ford first learnt of the 169.3 per cent tariff to be slapped on his wine via his office Bloomberg terminal.

Eli Greenblat

RetailCompanies

18/09/2018 Kathmandu CEO Xavier Simonet at Goldman Sachs in Melbourne.Picture : David Geraghty / The Australian.

Kathmandu CEO quits to head Austrade

Xavier Simonet will stay on at the adventure retailer while it looks for a new CEO, before taking up the senior public service job.

Eli Greenblat

TradeCompanies

Treasury Wine cuts Chinese exports

Treasury Wine Estates reveals it stopped shipping wine to China a month before Beijing’s tariff hit, which has forced a pivot to new markets.

Eli Greenblat

TRADECompanies

A woman looks at a bottle of Australian wine at a supermarket in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province on November 27, 2020. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

Treasury uncorks survival plan

TWE boss Tim Ford is on Monday expected to reveal his strategy to replace more than $500m in sales snuffed out by China’s high tariff wall.

Eli Greenblat

RETAILRetail

Picture shows David Jones chairman Ian Moir. David Jones is moving its corporate headquarters from Sydney to Melbourne creating 600 jobs for the city. Shot at the Park Hyatt Hotel east Melbournel. Picture: Mark Wilson

Investors rebel as losses mount at DJs

Up-market department store David Jones has rung up cumulative losses of $1.4bn over the last three years.

Eli Greenblat

Canberra reprimandedCompanies

27/11/2020Jeff Burch, owner of Howard Park wines with his boxes of wine, Margaret River.Pic Colin Murty The Australian

China blitz on exports strikes winemakers

China slaps tariffs on $1.2bn of wine exports, telling the Morrison government to ‘reflect upon its own behaviour’.

Will Glasgow and Eli Greenblat

China tradeCompanies

3/08/20 Treasury Wine Estates CEO Tim Ford ahead of the the annual release of the Penfolds vintage. Aaron Francis/The Australian

What the China tariff will mean for TWE

The nation’s biggest publicly listed winemaker is expected to detail on Monday the threat to its multi-billion-dollar business in China.

Eli Greenblat

Trading DayTrading Day

Stocks sink amid China blow to wine industry

China wine tariff news hits producers, accelerating S&P/ ASX 200 falls on Friday.

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Beijing claims ‘a falsehood’Business

‘Devastating’: Trade Minister blasts China wine tariff move

Simon Birmingham said levies over 200% would cripple business, as the nation’s top winemaker went into a trading halt | The punishment list

Eli Greenblat and Will Glasgow

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