The 2014 Land Rover Discovery will get a new look, a new V6 engine and significant new badging when it hits Australian showrooms in March. For the first time in history, ‘Discovery’ badging replaces ‘Land Rover’ at ...
Tags: Land Rover, Auto Parts
The production version of the BMW i8 has been teased just one week out from its Frankfurt motor show debut. The shadowy 30-second clip provides close-ups of the plug-in hybrid sports car’s wing mirrors, tail-lights, front-hinged ...
Australia-based meat processing company Thomas Foods International has acquired Mondello Farms, a wholesaler of processed potatoes, for an undisclosed amount. McGrath Nicol, who was appointed as receiver after Heard Phillips was hired as ...
Tags: Thomas Foods, Potato Producer
The winners of the 2013 Queensland Supply Chain & Logistics Awards, held in cooperation between the Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia, Queensland Division, and Telstra Enterprise and Government, All Purpose Transport, ...
ALDI Queensland managing director Viktor Jakupec and CHEP Australia and New Zealand president Phillip Austin have jointly launched a new-generation reusable plastic crate, 'Gen 3' for the fresh produce industry at ALDI's Salisbury store in ...
Tags: Chain Transport, Service
The Toll Group has unveiled Australia's first modern 100 per cent electric truck. The 10-tonne Smith Electric vehicle will be used for parcel pick-ups and deliveries around Brisbane. Toll IPEC will use the all-electric vehicle during an ...
Tags: electric truck, Transportation
The McLaren P1 is reportedly almost sold out, with only a handful still available to customers in Europe. Autocar reports every unit of the 673kW hybrid hypercar destined for markets in Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and North and South ...
Tags: McLaren P1, Hybird Hypercar
It will also open its corporate offices in Sydney during the week Twitter is all set to commission its new and first Australian headquarters during the current week, hiring ex-Google Asia-Pacific executive Karen Stocks as its managing ...
The Australian Defence Force has contracted with Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH (RMMV) of Germany, a joint venture company of Rheinmetall AG and MAN Truck & Bus AG, to supply it with an extensive fleet of advanced logistical ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, Military Vehicle
Australian wool auction markets rallied spectacularly this week, with substantive price gains being recorded across the entire selection. Amidst the prevailing gloomy conditions of the past few months, very few of the buying fraternity ...
Tags: Australian wool
Australia's largest cotton farm, the Cubbie Station, has received approval for building an Au$ 30 million cotton ginnery on the farm located in Dirrabandi town in South West Queensland. The 93,000 hectare farm was acquired by a foreign ...
Australian coking coal producer Beacon Hill Resources has announced its interim results for the first half ended on June 30 of the current year. Accordingly, Beacon Hill has posted a net loss of $7.6 million for the first half, compared ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Qantas Group has reported a profit before tax of $192 million but issued a reasonably cautious outlook, despite which the company's share price rose by 14%. The group has strengthened its financial position, with positive net free ...
Following the TWU's threat of further protected strike action made on Monday, Toll spokesperson Christopher Whitefield said the company was hopeful the union would not take industrial action while negotiations were still ongoing. "[The] ...
As The Woolmark Company works towards cementing wool in its rightful place as one of the world’s most versatile, practical and best-loved natural fibres, a new campaign is being rolled-out for washable wool – with the underlying ...