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Wesfarmers chief executive Richard Goyder has thrown his weight behind gambling reform by not ruling out dumping gaming operations unless new regulations are introduced to limit the social damage from poker machines, February 15, 2017.
Topics: retail, gambling, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedThe retail group throws its weight behind gambling reform by not ruling out dumping its gaming operations unless changes are introduced to limit the social damage caused by poker machines.
Topics: gambling, retail, community-and-society, australia
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| UpdatedBooming coal prices compensate for falling food and liquor prices to boost Wesfarmers' bottom line, helped by better than expected growth from Bunnings.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, company-news, retail, mining-industry, coal, australia
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Perth-based conglomerate Wesfarmers announces its industrials chief Rob Scott is to take over from long-standing managing director Richard Goyder when he stands down in November.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, retail, wa
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Teenage turtles like Cliff are lucky to be rescued, because many others like him are dying after eating hidden plastic pollution in Sydney Harbour and the Hawkesbury River.
Topics: environmental-impact, environmental-policy, animals, animal-welfare, plastics-and-rubber, retail, sydney-2000
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The Australian Retailers Association says increased competition and the high cost of doing business are driving fashion retailers, including Herringbone and Rhodes & Beckett, to the wall.
Topics: retail, company-news, fashion, australia
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Retail sales for December miss expectations, falling 0.1 per cent seasonally adjusted, with dips in Victoria, New South Wales and the ACT.
Topics: economic-trends, retail, australia
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| UpdatedThe mobile phone company is placed into voluntary administration with the immediate loss of 69 jobs after the company's owners admit failure in their attempts to turn the struggling business around.
Topics: industry, retail, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedChina's e-commerce giant Alibaba sets up in Melbourne, but the Australian Retailers Association warns this could increase pressure on local businesses already doing it tough.
Topics: business-economics-and-finance, economic-trends, globalisation---economy, retail, industry, melbourne-3000, australia, china
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| UpdatedAnalysts are pessimistic about Australia's retail sector heading into corporate earnings season, with a weaker Christmas period and the closure of some major Australian retailers dampening earnings expectations.
Topics: retail, stockmarket, economic-trends, australia
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| UpdatedPopular Australian fashion retailers Marcs and David Lawrence appoint voluntary administrators, while Alannah Hill will close its David Jones concession stores.
Topics: retail, company-news, fashion, business-economics-and-finance, lifestyle-and-leisure, australia
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| UpdatedAnalysts are expecting a bumper earnings season for resources companies to offset a fairly weak period of profit growth for most other listed firms.
Topics: stockmarket, mining-industry, banking, retail, transport, australia
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Topics: retail, unemployment, regional, regional-development, orange-2800
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Topics: retail, unemployment, regional, regional-development, orange-2800
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Topics: retail, regional, unemployment, regional-development, orange-2800
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Topics: retail, unemployment, regional, regional-development, orange-2800
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Topics: retail, unemployment, regional, regional-development, orange-2800
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| UpdatedPlans for the Adelaide Central Market Arcade may include residential, educational as well as retail areas, the Adelaide Lord Mayor Martin Haese says.
Topics: retail, business-economics-and-finance, local-government, government-and-politics, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedA slightly lower-than-expected inflation figure gives the Reserve Bank scope to keep interest rates lower for longer.
Topics: economic-trends, money-and-monetary-policy, retail, australia
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In a positive sign for the retail sector, David Jones reports a 4 per cent rise in sales during the crucial pre-Christmas period, if one-off problems are excluded.
Topics: retail, company-news, australia, south-africa
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Retail sales grow 0.2 per cent in November, half the pace that most analysts were expecting.
Topics: retail, economic-trends, australia
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is suing two sellers offering fake Swarovski watches on its online marketplace Taobao.
Topics: retail, consumer-protection, fraud-and-corporate-crime, company-news, china, united-states
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Consumer experts urge Australian retailers to follow in the footsteps of British supermarket Tesco, after the chain says it will reduce the price of its basic women's razors to match that of its men's razors.
Topics: retail, women, community-and-society, australia, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedComplaints about electronics and whitegoods accounted for more than a quarter of the 20,000-plus grievances shoppers submitted to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in 2016.
Topics: retail, consumer-finance, consumer-protection, regulation, australia
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| UpdatedPerth shoppers flock to the annual Boxing Day sales where West Australians are predicted to part with $226 million after spending less than interstate counterparts in the lead-up to Christmas.
Topics: retail, business-economics-and-finance, community-and-society, perth-6000, wa