Coles Myer sales rise 5.5%
Coles Myer Ltd (CML) has boosted half-year sales by 5.5% to $13.8
billion, over the 26 weeks ended 26 January. Second-quarter sales
rose by 4.1% to $7.5 billion.
The Food and Liquor division sales rose by 5.3%, Kmart by 9.5%
and Target by 8.6%
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Foodland on a 20% roll
Wholesaler Foodland Associated’s unaudited net profit for
the five months to December 31 is nearly 20% higher than the same
period the previous year, according to its advice to the stock
exchange.
Group sales rose to $1.72 billion against $1.17 billion the
previous second quarter.
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Coopers launches lagers
South Australian brewer, Coopers, has launched two lager beers
onto the Australian market.
Coopers New Draught and Coopers New Light will be sold in selected
hotels and liquor outlets throughout Australia, replacing its present
light and draught beers.
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Cashcard director named
A leading executive at Cashcard Australia has been elected to
serve on the International Executive Board of the global ATM Industry
Association (ATMIA). The appointment of Cashcard sales director, Ken
Gaunt, to a senior role within this global industry body recognises
Cashcard’s influential position within the international ATM
sector.
With over 17 years’ experience in IT and office automation
sales, Mr Gaunt is best known for co-founding Electronic Banking
Solutions which operated an installed base of over 2500 ATMs around
Australia before its acquisition by Cashcard in October 2002.
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Sainsburys declares war on ‘witches knickers’
The massive environmental problem of plastic carrier bags that do
not degrade has just been solved by British supermarket giant
Sainsburys.
And appropriately enough, the substance that does the trick is a
once-popular supermarket product called tapioca, a kind of grey
porridge that has been remoulded into a fully biodegradable bag.
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Mobile e-payments to hit $US20 billion
Whether shopping at a retail store or at a vending machine,
consumers will increasingly rely on their cell phones to make
payments, to the tune of $US billion by 2005.
According to the London-based research group ARC, helping to
drive these payments will be a changing retail POS infrastructure
both in retail stores and at vending machines.
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Focus on Email screening
Citec, together with global e-security company MessageLabs, is to
market the Citec Email Screening Solutions which targets spam,
pornographic material and viruses.
According to Citec’s Gordon Cooper, the email screening
service only takes 48 hours to set up and requires no additional
hardware or software. It works by redirecting a client’s
inbound and outbound mail within seconds to be scanned for spam,
pornographic images and viruses by using artificial intelligence
devices located across a global network of 22 central towers.
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Bomb awareness at shopping centres
Training courses on counter-terrorism and bomb awareness for
security professionals and business management will start in February
and be conducted by security training specialists, SECTA Training.
The courses will educate security personnel and executives by
providing an introduction to counter-terrorism and preliminary
training in bomb awareness.
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English shop signage triggers row
A storm is brewing over moves by Sydney councils to ban
foreign-language shopfront shingles that don’t display the
English translation.
Auburn City Council has launched a draft policy which requires all
shop signs in its jurisdiction to be written in English with a
translation in another language if desired. Hurstville City Council
will follow suit next month.
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Close
This bulletin is edited and compiled by retail commentator John Kingsley-Jones.
John has worked as an Editor, Chief Sub-Editor
and journalist in magazines and newspapers both
in Australia and overseas.
In the past 15 years, he has consulted to a
range of companies and brands such as Unilever,
Mars Confectionery, TipTop, Tooheys, McWilliam's
Wines, Goodyear and BMW.
That's it for this issue of the Retail One-Stop. If you
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