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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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David Jones Ltd. branded shopping bags hang near a sales counter inside the company's Bourke Street store in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. South Africa's Woolworths Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy Australian retailer David Jones Ltd. for A$2.15 billion ($2 billion) to expand in a market targeted by global rivals including Inditex SA and Hennes & Mauritz AB. Photographer: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

David Jones names new CEO

The department store’s fifth CEO in six years will face a growing balance sheet bleed.

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GamingCompanies

The entrance to the Crown Casino lies empty in Melbourne on August 19, 2020 as its parent company Crown Resorts recorded a full-year net profit fall of 80 percent due to a COVID-19 coronavirus forced closure. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)

Victoria catches up with Crown

Victoria has issued James Packer’s Crown casino operation a please-explain notice over the same probity questions that NSW has been asking.

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AGRICULTURELeadership

Coke Amatil CEO Alison Watkins posing for a photo at their office in North Sydney on the 22nd of August 2019. Photographer: Adam Yip

$100bn goal achievable: Watkins

Coca-Cola Amatil chief executive Alison Watkins believes making Australia’s agriculture sector a $100bn industry by 2030 is an achievable goal.

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CompaniesCompanies

20/02/2020: John Wylie, investment banker and head of the Australian Sport Commission. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

Come clean over Seven, Boral told

Veteran banker John Wylie and Perpetual have demanded Boral publicly release details of any deals done with the company’s biggest shareholder, Seven Group Holdings.

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RetailCompanies

Good time for regional markets, says Bunnings chief

Bunnings CEO says the changes brought on by the pandemic have made some exciting opportunities but business forecasts will remain difficult without a vaccine.

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RETAILCompanies

The new high-tech system going into the back of Carrum Downs store to help ship more home deliveries across the southeast. The system is called Takeoff Technologie

Woolies builds robot army for delivery blitz

Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci hopes he can beat Amazon at its own game.

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TransportCompanies

10/10/2019: CEO Scott Charlton at Transurban's Annual General Meeting in Melbourne. Stuart McEvoy/The Australian.

Transurban to consider sale of US toll roads

Transurban will consider selling minority interests in its three US roads to strengthen its balance sheet and give it the option to invest more in Australia.

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AUTOMOTIVECompanies

A four-wheel drive on a dirt road in Keep River National Park.Keep River National Park contains a diversity of landscapes and visitors can explore sandstone ridges and 'Bungle Bungle-like' formations from the campgrounds.

Pent-up demand drives ARB rise

Car equipment manufacturer ARB is racing to fill orders from Australians fleeing home isolation for some off-road adventure.

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Budget 2020Economics

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos October 6 2020: A man walks past a closed fashion retail store in Sydney rd Brunswick on Tuesday afternoon in Melbourne before the handing down of the Federal Budget. Picture: NCA NewsWire / David Geraghty

The retail winners from spending boost

Income tax cuts and boost to welfare should improve household disposable income in the face of the economic crunch, analysts say.

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Companies

Mayne Pharma setback hits stock

Shares in the drug developer fell almost 20 per cent after a hiccup in its bid to win FDA approval for a generic version of contraception device Nuvaring.

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