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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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ASX sinks as markets rate Trump vs Biden

Australia’s share market had its worst day in almost 4 weeks as US futures pointed to a dive on Wall Street.

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Summer of risk for food retailers

Woolworths, Coles, Aldi and wholesaler Metcash have been warned to prepare for a tough summer with supply chain risks.

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Pictured arriving at the Harvey Norman AGM at Doltone House in Sydney is Harvey Norman director Gerry Harvey.Picture: Richard Dobson

Home spending trend is Harvey Norman’s friend

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to funnel consumer spending into home appliances and white goods as Australians spend more time at home.

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Amazon braces for Prime Day

Record selling Prime Day event expected in October as the COVID-19 pandemic keeps many at home or away from shops.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 29: Empty escalators and shopping floors at a shopping mall on March 29, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. All international arrivals into Australia from midnight on Saturday will be placed into mandatory quarantine in hotels for 14 days as the Federal Government increases restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19. All libraries, museums, galleries, beauty salons, tattoo parlours, shopping centre food courts, auctions, open houses, amusement parks, arcades, indoor and outdoor play centres, swimming pools are closed and indoor exercise activities are now banned. This is in addition to the closure of bars, pubs and nightclubs which came into effect on Monday. Restaurants and cafes are restricted to providing takeaway only. Weddings will now be restricted to five people including the couple while funerals are limited to 10 mourners. All Australians are now expected to stay at home except for essential outings such as work, grocery shopping and medical appointments. Exercising outdoors alone is still permitted. Australia now has more than 3,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19 while the death toll now stands at 16. (Photo by Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images)

Lew plays hard in Covid retail shift

Solomon Lew has added some teeth to his years of threats of walking away from bricks-and-mortar stores unless rents are lowered to reflect the new realities of shopping behaviour.

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Retail will survive Covid: Lew

Retail conglomerate Premier has made a profitable pivot to online sales, but is threatening to close as many as 350 stores if landlords don’t give ground on rent.

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14/3/16 Lindsay Partridge CEO if Brickworks in their shopfront on Carrington St/ Sydney. Building materials giant Brickworks warns jobs at its Perth manufacturing base are under threat as the company mulls boosting imports from Spain in the face of the spiralling cost of domestic freight. Adam Yip/The Australian

Closed borders risk manufacturing

Brickworks CEO Lindsay Partridge has called for an end to state border closures, warning disruption is threatening economic recovery.

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16/04/2019 Coles CEO Steve Cain at the Coles Liquorland Camberwell store. picture : David Geraghty / The Australian.

Coles bonuses to hinge on online success

Coles executives will have a greater portion of their short-term incentives governed by the supermarket’s online success.

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5/12/18: Washington H Soul Patts CEO Todd Barlow in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

Soul Pattinson primed with $1bn war chest

Todd Barlow says the conglomerate will look into equity markets and private equity deals as the pandemic creates dislocation.

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(FILES) In this file photo taken on January 28, 2020 LVMH Chairman and Chief Executive, Bernard Arnault, addresses the presentation of the group's 2019 results at LVMH headquarters in Paris. - French luxury giant LVMH said on September 10, 2020 it would counter-sue US jeweller Tiffany, accusing it of

Pop the corks: Moet to flow once more

French conglomerate Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy has signed a peace deal with Woolworths’ liquor arm Endeavour Group.

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