Buyers of Windows 8 smartphones need to check that apps that offer vital functionality on their iPhone and Android devices are available for their new Microsoft-inspired handset. Apps can be either missing, of relatively poor quality ...
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Fonterra Brands Australia is recalling CalciYum yogurt pouches from Woolworths, Coles and independent supermarkets due to possible contamination by plastic, according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The company ...
Woolworths Ltd CEO Grant O'Brien has claimed "solid" first-half sales for the Australian retailer and insisted its domestic food and liquor business had increased its market share. The company, Australia's largest retailer, booked a 4.8% ...
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Coles, Australia's second-largest food retailer, has reported a near-5% increase in half-year sales. The company booked a 4.7% rise in revenue for the six months to 30 December. Sales from its food and liquor division were up 5%. ...
Image courtesy of infotruck.blogspot.com.au.1 Wesfarmers Limited has released its second quarter retail sales results for the period ending 31 December 2012. Managing director Richard Goyder said he was generally pleased with the sales ...
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The Australian sharemarket was on track for a 10th-consecutive daily rise today, as commodity price strength lifted the resources sector. BHP Billiton rose 1 per cent after the price of London Metals Exchange copper rose 0.6 per cent and ...
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The Australian sharemarket pulled back in late trading but still closed slightly higher, with investors unfazed by Julia Gillard announcing that the next federal election would be on September 14. At 4.15pm AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 ...
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The sharemarket rose for a 10th consecutive day, extending its longest winning streak since October 2003, as an improving global economic outlook continued to fuel demand for equities before the conclusion of a US Federal Reserve board ...
One Harvest, packed salad manufacturer and fruit marketer, has unveiled a vacuum packed line for ready-to-eat, fresh baby beetroot named Love Beets. Love Beets can be eaten once they are peeled and freshly cooked in their own juices, with ...
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The current managing director of Wesfarmers Insurance, Rob Scott, will become finance director of Coles in February. Wesfarmers’ managing director Richard Goyder said Mr Scott has performed extremely well in significantly improving ...
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Officeworks plans to build its new Wyong store on vacant land on the corner of Johnson Road and Tuggerah Straight, which will have to be rezoned from light industrial to ‘centre support’. Wyong Council supported the rezoning ...
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Australian supermarket group Coles has appointed Rob Scott as its finance chief. Scott, currently managing director of Wesfarmers Insurance, will take up the finance director role from February. He replaces the outgoing Tony Buffin who ...
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Photo courtesy of DAF Trucks Australia. One half of the Supermarket duopoly, Woolworths, has made encouraging public commitments to playing their part in tackling the lethal pressures in trucking while the other half, Coles, continues to ...
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Judges have compiled their shortlist of the most innovative and exciting lighting products and projects for Lighting Design Awards 2013. Entrants in the Product Innovation section of the Lighting Design Awards gathered at Lighting’s ...
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AUSTRALIAN telcos are ramping up plans to enable customers to pay for goods by swiping their mobile phones or tablets at the checkout. The move, which may eventually render credit cards obsolete, has been mooted for several years and the ...
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