Business

Looking forward to that first beer.

The year that drove us to drink

It was a good year for grog sales. Revenue at alcohol giants Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) and Carlton & United Breweries (CUB) grew by 19.1 per cent and 15.7 per cent last year.

 Cotton On chief executive Peter Johnson (left) and chief financial officer Michael Hardwick.

How Cotton On mastered the middle market

Cotton On Group wants to run it's own race and with sales growing at 20 per cent a year, the business is pushing up against its goal of being the dominant fast fashion retailer in the world.

Snakes are always a favourite.

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

Retail spending in China is encouraging and there are enough jobs to go around.

Chinese supermarket's flying start on ASX

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.

AMES Australasia will take over the Hills garden and laundry range, which includes the iconic Hills Hoist.

Hills unpegs its iconic Hills Hoist

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.

Myer was hit with a second class action on Friday morning.

Myer hit with another class action

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. 

Many unwanted Christmas gifts are passed on to a new recipient.

Unwanted gifts to pile up this Christmas

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. 

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