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The man who took Apple's business in China
Two years ago, Oppo and Vivo couldn't crack the top five in China's smartphone market. Now they're on top after elbowing Apple aside.
Two years ago, Oppo and Vivo couldn't crack the top five in China's smartphone market. Now they're on top after elbowing Apple aside.
Close to 2000 retail workers are facing unemployment just one month out from Christmas after Payless Shoes went into administration on the same day receivers announced the shut down of Pumpkin Patch.
The a2 Milk Company will launch its first "adult nutrition" products next year as it taps into the lucrative wellness trend and expands its profile in the US and UK.
The family that founded Nudie juice had a sweet beginning but all has turned sour, with the family losing a court case, backed by the ATO, and being hit with a $125 million tax bill.
Pumpkin Patch prices will be slashed immediately as the retailer's receiver prepares to wind down the business after failing to secure a buyer.
Oxfam has released its 'Naughty & Nice' list detailing which big retailers disclose where their clothing is made.
The issues of wage fraud occurring across multiple industries last year and more recently alleged in the Caltex franchisee network are unacceptable.
Australia's biggest baby goods chain reports a "pleasing" start to the new financial year, with total sales up just over 20 per cent.
Aldi's archrival Schwarz Group is investigating setting up Kaufland stores in Australia.
Australia's biggest independent supermarket chain has gone gourmet in the battle to grow sales and boost margins.
A key adage of the corporate world is "don't go into business with a friend". Or, as American oil baron John D. Rockefeller famously put it: "A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder."
Australia's biggest department store scares off persistent short-sellers by posting its fifth consecutive quarter of same-store sales growth.
The fact that investors and retail experts are overjoyed about Myer reporting a 1.6 per cent improvement in sales in the first quarter of the 2017 financial year says a lot about the state of department stores in Australia.
Online retailer Kogan has upgraded its guidance by up to 30 per cent and tipped a "strong Christmas trading period" at its first annual general meeting as a listed company.
A mini-boom is happening in the luxury jewellery market – so who's buying it?
The corporate watchdog has reached out to Harvey Norman as pressure intensifies for the retailer to provide more detail about the financial relationship between Harvey Norman head office and its franchisees.
"I detest him" says Grill'd founder of his friend and partner
Analysts warn the iconic jeweller's busines might suffer from its close association with the real estate mogul and his home.
Wesfarmers is selling its $880 million Coles credit card portfolio to Citi in a retreat from the financial services sector.
The shock departure of Big W boss Sally Macdonald has fuelled talk Woolworths will fast-track its plans to sell off the embattled discount department store.
Woolworths' biggest problem child, Big W, just got a lot more difficult after the architect of its turnaround strategy, Sally Macdonald, quit after just ten months in the job.
JB Hi-Fi picked up the top gong at the Workplace Giving Excellence Awards on Wednesday.
Domino's claims it has completed the world's first pizza delivery by drone.
Woolworth's struggling discount chain Big W has lost its chief executive less than a year after she took on the top job.
Billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey has forecast the end of annual general meetings and again dismissed concerns over Harvey Norman's accounts as the dark arts of short sellers.
The brand built on made-in-the-USA marketing and racy advertising at a chain of prominent retail locations, is going through a second bankruptcy.
Harvey Norman’s executive chairman, Gerry Harvey, has blasted a foreign short-seller as the culprit behind "hearsay and rumours" that raised questions about the retailer’s financial relationship with its franchisees.
One of the world's biggest retailers is on track to launch bricks and mortar grocery stores and an online supermarket in Australia within two years.
South African retail giant Woolworths plans more 'trans-seasonal' clothing to cope with unpredictable weather in the southern hemisphere.
German discount supermarket is set to enter China, and broader Asia, using Australia as a springboard.
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