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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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TAKEOVER PLOTCompanies

(FILES) In this file photo cases of Coca-Cola are seen on a grocery shelf April 30, 2016 in Gainesville, Virgina. - Coca-Cola reported a steep drop in second-quarter profits on July 21, 2020 due to a big decline in away-from-home consumption, especially at the height of the coronavirus lockdowns. The results underscored the soda maker's reliance for sales on sporting events, movie theaters and entertainment -- economic segments that have been battered by social distancing protocols instituted to address COVID-19. (Photo by Karen BLEIER / AFP)

European suitor a product of mergers

With €12bn ($20bn) in annual sales, Coca-Cola European Partners ranks as the biggest Coca-Cola bottler outside of the United States.

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TAKEOVER BIDCompanies

A worker places a bottle of Coke soda onto the automated bottling line at the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Co. SA plant in Brovary, Ukraine, on Wednesday, May 10, 2017. Heineken NV, Coca-Cola HBC AG and Castel Group are among companies bidding for a majority stake in Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, according to people familiar with the matter. Photographer: Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg

Europeans plot $10bn Coke bid

It would be the biggest takeover of an Australian company this year and trigger a huge shake-up in the beverage sector.

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Coca-Cola AmatilCompanies

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos SEPTEMBER, 03, 2020: A Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) truck seen outside the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Joel Carrett

Takeover comes with a message: Coke is it

It has long been the belief, with some evidence, that The Coca-Cola Company has tired of its bottlers spreading themselves too thin.

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CompaniesCompanies

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Capital raising looms for Coca-Cola purchase

Coca-Cola Amatil could announce as early as Monday a sizeable capital raising.

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RetailCompanies

Careers section. Kate Morris, founder and CEO of Adore Beauty, with Shannon Whelan, Online Merchandising Co-ordinator, discussing visuals. Story about the science and maths jobs available in the beauty sector. Adore Beauty is offering computer science scholarships to women because she believes all industries need technological innovation.Picture : Nicki Connolly

‘Lipstick effect’ adds gloss to Adore’s debut

Investors delivered a healthy profit for the online beauty and make-up retailer’s sharemarket debut.

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RetailCompanies

Toys R Us has closed its doors for good at Cairns, Far North Queensland.PICTURE: JUSTIN BRIERTY

Funtastic takes to hobbies, toys and baby-goods

Funtastic, the beleaguered retailer that has gone through a revolving door of corporate reincarnations.

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ExclusiveCompanies

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

Why Kogan pair deserve $130m bonus: Chairman

Kogan.com chair Greg Ridder has declared that the retailer’s founder, Ruslan Kogan, is “the smartest guy in the room”.

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E-Commerce SummitTechnology

Premier Investments chief Mark McInnes speaking at the 2020 E-Commerce Summit.

This is our payoff: McInnes

Premier CEO Mark McInnes says the company has been reaping the payoff of its big e-commerce investment in IT and logistics.

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RetailCompanies

Covid furnishes retailer with stellar growth

Momentum has helped push shares in Temple & Webster almost 500 per cent higher in the past 12 months.

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E-Commerce SummitTechnology

21/8/20: Wooloworths CEO Brad Banducci at their Sydney offices for the retailer's full year results. John Feder/The Australian.

No going back for Woolworths

Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci says there is no going back on digital revolution, saying digital will double in-store visits in a few short years.

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