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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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RetailBusiness

Woolworths signage outside a store in Sydney, Friday, February 23, 2018. Retailer Woolworths has outperformed Coles in sales and earnings growth three years after it started spending $1 billion in slashing food prices and improving service. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

New Woolies CEO drops prices, takes fight to Coles

Amid a cost-of-living crisis and political attacks on supermarket profit gouging, Woolworths says it will slash prices on almost 400 common grocery products.

Eli Greenblat

ExclusiveRetail

Tony Leon the former boss of Coles’ Liquor division and the mastermind behind Woolworths’ Dan Murphy’s superstores,. Picture - Supplied

Dan Murphy’s co-founder returns to retail game with wine venture

Some people just weren’t made to gracefully retire, and Dan Murphy’s co-founder and wine merchant Tony Leon is not one for the golf course, so he’s back in the wine game with a new venture.

Eli Greenblat

RetailBusiness

supercheap Thanh Giang, setup manager, is installing the final touches of a new Supercheap store near the Orion Springfield Town Centre.

Embattled Super Retail warns on margin crunch and cost blowout

Super Retail, which has racked up headlines for an alleged illicit affair between its CEO and a former executive, has warned shareholders of weaker margins and a cost blow out.

Eli Greenblat

RetailCompanies

A retail sales assistant is seen inside a JB Hi-Fi store in Brisbane, Monday, August 13, 2018. JB Hi-Fi's full yet net profit jumps 35 per cent to $232.2 million, thanks to strong demand for its consumer electronics. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

Retailers’ sales updates spur mixed reactions

JB Hi-Fi has booked solid but slowing sales growth, while Temple & Webster has reported an upbeat update.

Eli Greenblat

RetailRetail

Happy girlfriends women group drinking beer at brewery bar restaurant - Friendship concept with young female friends enjoying time and having genuine fun at cool vintage pub - Focus on left girl

Retail sales slide as drinkers pick pubs

Pub patrons are piling into their local for a beer and meal, but Endeavour has flagged that has come at a cost to retail sales growth for its bottle shops.

Eli Greenblat

Federal electionBusiness

GLADSTONE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - March 18, 2025: The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with Kellie Parker CEO Rio Tinto Australia during a visit to the Rio Tinto Boyne Smelters in Gladstone, QLD. Picture: NewsWire / Paul Beutel

Business chiefs seek productivity push from re-elected Albanese

Jim Chalmers has promised action on productivity. Now, business leaders say Labor’s majority election win means it must deliver on that pledge.

Perry Williams and Eli Greenblat

WorkplaceBusiness

21/11/22 Rich-lister property developer Tim Gurner in his new luxury development in St Kilda. Aaron Francis / The Australian

Labor’s win not a defeat for return to office mandates: Tim Gurner

Property developer Tim Gurner says work from home needs to end, despite public servants winning the ‘golden ticket’ to keep their flexible WFH lifestyles under Labor’s re-election.

Eli Greenblat and Perry Williams

RetailBusiness

Super Retail Group CEO Anthony Heraghty in Supercheap Auto in Everton Park Brisbane. Picture by Paul Harris. Wednesday 16 February 2024

Amid Super Retail ‘affair’, a CEO exerts his power uninterrupted

As workplace gossip swelled, an alleged affair with the CEO conferred power to his exec lover, court documents released this week claim, and fostered a fear of speaking up.

Eli Greenblat

ExclusiveRetail

Cadbury Chocolate Bars. Picture: Facebook

Making supermarkets ‘whipping boys’ a distraction from key issue

The local boss of Cadbury says he has never witnessed supermarket price gouging in his 20 years in the business, and beating up the big retailers is ‘unhealthy’ for the industry.

Eli Greenblat

MiningBusiness

President Donald Trump holds a signed executive order regarding commercial fishing in the Pacific as he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

White House win for Rio Tinto, BHP as copper mine gets fast track

Rio Tinto and BHP are big winners from the White House’s battle with China to seize control of critical minerals used in energy and military projects after the White House fast-tracked the duo’s Resolution copper project in Arizona.

Eli Greenblat

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