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Make your own party mix a taste of future
One hour north of Melbourne there's a factory that makes magic. This is the where every jelly bean, red frog, raspberry snake and party mix bag is made for Australia and New Zealand
One hour north of Melbourne there's a factory that makes magic. This is the where every jelly bean, red frog, raspberry snake and party mix bag is made for Australia and New Zealand
More companies are investing in scent marketing to lure customers back to physical stores.
China-based food retailer Winha Commerce and Trade International has had a positive start to life on the Australian share market, with its share price rising 40 per cent in its debut trading session.
Business leaders have renewed their push for reform as they ponder some of the new year's biggest issues at the sailing regatta.
Bubs Australia and Murray River Organics have distanced themselves from stricken rival Bellamy's.
Embattled cattle exporter Wellard is in talks with its bankers after breaching the covenants on its debts at the new year.
Australian company Hills has sold the right to make and sell Hills Hoist clotheslines after concluding it could not make money from the iconic product.
Department store owner Myer Holdings has been hit with another class action from an aggrieved shareholder just weeks after a court found a separate class action against it was an abuse of the legal process.
Amazon is exploring the use of giant airships to serve as mobile, flying warehouses that could help the online retail giant deliver more of its goods by drone.
Billionaire rag trader Solomon Lew's Just Group has lost its appeal against stopping the company's former chief financial officer Nicole Peck from joining rival Cotton On.
A softer than expected Christmas has left nervous retailers banking on the Boxing Day sales for a much-needed boost leading into 2017.
Hawksburn's popular retail strip is in a state of transition but the future is still bright, say locals.
Shoppers are expected to spend about $2.41 billion on Boxing Day, the biggest trading day of the year for big retailers such as Myer and David Jones.
Despite digging deep and splashing reported $620 million dollars on Christmas gifts, new research by Gumtree shows as many as seven in 10 Australians will be disappointed after tearing aside the wrapping paper this holiday season.
Australian toy creators are making child's play of the retail revolution led by the likes of US giant Amazon and proving innovation is a more powerful than price, a lesson many of Australia's best-known retail brands would do well to heed as we hurtle towards 2017.
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Department store owner Myer has been slapped with a pre-Christmas court action by the billionaire property magnate John Gandel.
Shaver Shop has emerged as the latest dud float of 2016, warning investors earnings will fall short of the forecast included in its prospectus which was issued mid-year.
Retailers are being hit hard as consumers are choosing not to splurge this Christmas, opting instead to compare prices and shop online.
Former Billabong CEO Matthew Perrin is spending his first night behind bars after faking his ex-wife's signature to get a $13.5 million loan.
Powerful senator Nick Xenophon has predicted 2017 will be a "very unhappy year for the gambling industry".
Brace yourself for more retail collapses in the first three months of 2017.
The pressure is on Canberra retailers to make one-third of their year's profits over the Christmas season.
The competition watchdog will not appeal a Federal Court ruling that Woolworths did not act unconscionably when it demanded up to $60 million in cash from suppliers to plug a profit shortfall.
Coles, Woolworths, Target, Bunnings, Kmart, Myer, David Jones, JB Hi-Fi and now Big W are all run by men.
SurfStitch has alleged that its ex-CEO and would-be suitor conspired to inflate revenues and profits in the first half of 2016.
The shops will be chockers on Fridays as shoppers seek out everything from Harry Potter to fragrances and coffee machines.
Besieged infant formula business Bellamy's is facing two more potential class actions after ACA Lawyers and Slater & Gordon announced they were both investigating shareholder claims against the Launceston-based operation.
Former Billabong boss Matthew Perrin has admitted he regularly signed his wife's name on legal documents.
More than 700 workers will be out of a job in the new year after Payless Shoes' administrator says the shoe chain is shutting up shop.
Two business owners who have seen gentrification firsthand explain what it means.
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