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 ...
Tags: electrical retailing industry, Technical Consumer Goods
WSA Capital and Australia-based Venture Asean have established a new joint venture (JV) company, WSA Venture Australia (M), to produce automotive component parts in Malaysia. These parts will exported to Australian, Asian and global ...
Tags: Automotive Parts, WSA Group
February 17, 2014 Orion Premium Draft Beer is now available to buy online in Australia through Asian Beer Online Online alcohol supplier Asian Beer Online has introduced its so-called "champagne of beers", Orion Premium Draft Beer, ...
Global food manufacturer, the Kellogg Company (Kellogg), has announced a global commitment to work with palm oil suppliers to source “fully traceable palm oil, produced in a manner that’s environmentally responsible, socially ...
Tags: traceable palm oil, transparent sourcing, Palm oil debate
Launches of new bread products have generally continued to rise globally and, within that, products using health claims of some kind made up over 42 per cent of the total in 2013, according to findings from market research organisation ...
The range spans pocket sized plush to other reaching more than 30 inches in height, and the toys will retail from $5.99 to $99.00. Dumb Ways to Die, an Australian campaign by Metro Trains to promote rail safety, is to be immortalised in ...
Tags: Dumb Ways to Die, plush range, Toys
Australia’s oldest chocolatier, Ernest Hillier Pty Ltd (Ernest Hillier), has been acquired by Re:Capital, the Australian arm of UK investment company Hilco Capital. The sale comes as the former owners of Ernest Hillier’s, the ...
Tags: acquisition, chocolate, confectionery, Ernest-Hillier, Ferrero
Australia's Atlas Iron said Tuesday it would double production at its Mt Webber mine in north Pilbara to 6 million mt by the end of the December quarter, now that the board has approved development of the project's second stage. ...
Tags: Atlas Iron, Mineral
Confectionery company Cadbury has launched a new version of its Boost chocolate bar, Boost Nuts, available from February 2014. Cadbury said the launch of the new bar looked to build on the success of Boost Totally Nuts in 2008, which was ...
Tags: Boost bar, Cadbury Boost Nuts, chocolate, confectionery
February 17, 2014 Sophie Langley ALDI is gaining market share, and Coles is catching up on Woolworths European supermarket chain ALDI continues to go from strength to strength in Australia, quadrupling its customer base over the last ...
Tags: European supermarket chain, ALDI
Breville announced this week that exciting new products and international expansion were central to the Australian company’s future plans. Let’s take a look at the five products Appliance Retailer tips to be essential to these ...
Tags: superblender, coffee machine, Tea Maker, Appliance Retailer
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 ...
Tags: retail industry, ACCC, imports
Australia is losing another vehicle manufacturing facility — and the jobs that go along with it. Toyota Motor Corp. announced that it would stop making cars in Australia in 2017. Toyota’s withdrawal will mean about 2,500 lost ...
Tags: Halt Production, high cost of manufacturing, competition
Samsung has once again hosted its annual Regional Forum in Bali, Indonesia, bringing together representatives from the company’s Asia Pacific and Australian markets for a dedicated spotlight on consumer electronics and appliances. ...
Tags: localised information, Consumer Electronics Business, smart appliance