Iconic Australian company AWA will meet with creditors on 7 March 2014 after going into administration at the end of February. AWA's board of directors appointed administrators from PPB Advisory on 25 February, and these administrators are ...
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Omega Appliances has launched a new website to assist consumers in finding the right product for them and then to direct them to their nearest retailer for purchase. Located atomegaappliances.com.au, the site showcases the brand's ...
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It's been a good start to the financial year for Telstra,with half yearly results placing the telco giant on track to meet forecasted end-of-financial-year targets. Half-yearly results,released today,indicate that total income for Telstra ...
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It's been a busy week for Panasonic Australia.Last Friday the company announced the impending retirement of managing director Steve Rust and the appointment of new MD Paul Reid,effective from April.Today,the appointment announcements ...
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Yamaha and West Coast Hi-Fi have opened the first Yamaha Sound Centre. Yamaha and West Coast Hi-Fi celebrated the opening of Australia’s first Yamaha Sound Centre on Saturday 22 February 2014. This store-in-store branded concept is ...
It is night time on Friday 21 February 2014 in southwest Brisbane and the rain is lashing down so hard that guests standing at the back of Andrew Barton Laundry’s state-of-art, one-week-old warehouse cannot hear managing director ...
GfK Retail and Technology has released its quarterly report on the state of the electrical retailing industry in what it calls “Technical Consumer Goods (TCG), painting a mixed picture across varying segments in both the consumer ...
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JB Hi-Fi and The Good Guys are among the retailers and service providers that were recognised last week for their outstanding levels of customer satisfaction in 2013 at the Roy Morgan Customer Satisfaction Awards, hosted by Roy Morgan ...
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has set its policy agenda for 2014, with the competition regulator setting its sights on deceptive online pricing and low-cost imports as two major issues facing the retail industry ...
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Stephen Andrew has replaced Pedro Demartini as the sales director at Groupe SEB, marketer of the Tefal, Rowenta, All-Clad, Moulinex and Krups brands. Andrew has previously led sales and marketing at accountancy software firms Attache ...
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Haier has claimed a 9.7 per cent global market share in home appliances during 2013, up from 8.6 per cent in 2012, to retain its Number One ranking for the fifth consecutive year, according to UK-based research firm Euromonitor ...
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Sony made waves overnight with the company's head office announcing a global restructure that will see it shed 5,000 jobs, sell its Vaio PC business to Japanese company Japan Industrial Partners (JIP), and separate its TV business as a ...
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Longstanding Myer CEO and managing director Bernie Brookes has put pen to paper on a new, open-ended contract worth $2 million per annum, plus performance based cash and equity bonuses. At the same time, the experienced retail head as ...
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Dick Smith released its first set of results to the ASX today under its new owners, with the company posting better than expected sales, earnings and profit figures. Today's figures come just over two years after the retailer was placed ...
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Woolworths Limited has released its results for the first half of FY2014,posting a strong performance across its group of retailers and a 6 per cent increase in overall sales,up to$31.8 billion(1H13:$30.0 billion). Growth was driven in ...
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