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This Month
Shareholders move against Metcash as hardware spin-out hopes fade
Street Talk understands influential shareholders harbouring concerns about Metcash’s Independent Hardware Group as Wesfarmer’s Tool Kit Depot ramps up its national expansion.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
July
Supplier survey suggests Coles has outperformed Woolworths all year
Ahead of financial updates from the major supermarkets next month, suppliers say Coles and Aldi are picking up market share over their rivals, small and large.
- Carrie LaFrenz
- Updated
- Supermarket wars
Dutton’s break-up powers are populist ‘madness’: Kennett
Former Victorian Liberal premier Jeff Kennett said the Coalition’s plan to break up Coles and Woolworths was “madness” that demonised employers and would not bring down prices at the checkout.
- Tom McIlroy
Rising cheese prices bite into Domino’s earnings: Barrenjoey
Barrenjoey has slashed its earnings forecasts for Domino’s due to a slower store rollout, weak Japanese yen and rising cheese prices.
- Carrie LaFrenz
June
- Opinion
- Supermarket inquiry
Why this is a practical, workable supermarket code of conduct
The new code offers the best of both a mandatory and voluntary system of compliance for the supermarket giants.
- Craig Emerson
Metcash’s better than expected food results soothes hardware pain
Households are cutting back on restaurant visits and hunting for food on special at the group’s IGA stores, but Total Tools is being hit by the housing construction slide.
- Simon Evans
Coles and Woolworths supplier HS Fresh Food collapses
Disclosures show that the administrators, FTI Consulting, first discussed their appointment to help the ailing pre-packaged meals group 12 months ago.
- Simon Evans
Barrenjoey says ACCC overplaying Chemist Warehouse’s supply risks
The broker has told clients that the competition regulator has ignored independent wholesaler CH2 when warning the deal will mean less drug supply competition.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Jemima Whyte
May
- Opinion
- Retail
Half-priced detergent every few weeks? Shoppers can smell a rat
Deep food and grocery discounts have become increasingly popular with consumers, but the cost is unfairly borne by suppliers, prompting calls for change.
- Updated
- Sue Mitchell
April
Fix planning laws to improve supermarket competition, says Aldi boss
The German discount supermarket says state and local zoning laws are stopping its network of 600 outlets growing to areas like Tasmania.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Supermarkets
Political brawls sweep the supermarket aisles
Supermarkets are once again an appealing target for politicians wanting to demonstrate their good intentions on helping consumers with cost-of-living pressures.
- Updated
- Jennifer Hewett
March
Metcash bungled a big IT project but execs still got bonuses for it
Metcash’s Project Horizon is a textbook case of how not to manage a large-scale technology project. Not that you’d know it from the remuneration reports.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
- Exclusive
- Political lobbying
PM’s former chief adviser guides Woolies through political crisis
Woolworths has hired Anthony Albanese’s former chief of staff, while Coles has a specialist well-known in C-suites and Canberra’s corridors of power.
- Updated
- Ronald Mizen
More Southern Cross shareholders back removing chair Rob Murray
Facing a new takeover offer from ARN Media and Anchorage Capital Partners, nearly 40 per cent of Southern Cross Austereo shareholders want to remove its chair.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Opinion
- Retail
‘Reform is needed’: why ACCC is looking at Woolies and Coles stores
Woolworths and Coles have opened 394 stores since the 2008 grocery inquiry but only a handful have crossed the ACCC’s desk. That may be about to change.
- Sue Mitchell
- Opinion
- Software
Metcash and Seek: Lessons from two contrasting IT projects
The learnings should be of interest to the broader economy, because badly handled IT projects – and there are too many to name – are a heavy drag on productivity.
- Tony Boyd
- Analysis
- Enterprise IT
How Metcash’s $80m tech upgrade blew out by $200m
A plan to replace nine IT systems with one Microsoft platform is a case study in how not to manage a large-scale tech project.
- Tony Boyd
Seven ways to close your gender pay gap from bosses who did it
BOSS speaks to a range of companies that have been working hard to narrow pay disparities between men and women. This is what they did.
- Sally Patten
February
These companies nailed the gender pay challenge. It wasn’t easy
Companies such as Super Retail Group, Wesfarmers, PwC and Cotton On have the most balanced pay rates between men and women employees.
- Sally Patten
ASX falls sharply | Inside Metcash’s $600m bet | Property prices could rise 10pc
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