Reporting and analysis on retail, e-commerce, and consumer trends in Australia, updated continuously by our newsroom.
Australia’s food waste problem is getting worse, like meal delivery services fuel further waste. The nation’s total food waste bill is now $10.1 billion, up from $8.9 billion dollars in 2018, making it the highest in four years of data collected by the…
Tigerair has announced it will cancel flights from Whitsunday airport to Sydney in early 2020. Flights will still continue over the Christmas and New Year period, but anyone who has booked the service from Feb 2020 onwards will be notified by the airline.…
Australian fashion brand Cotton On is the latest foreign player to come looking for a piece of the action in the growing Vietnamese market. It opened its first store in the country at Vincom Thao Dien in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 on November 15. It plans…
Two months after entering the local market with food delivery services in Melbourne, DoorDash has expanded to Sydney and now covers more than 40 percent of the Australian population it says. Launched in the US in 2013, the platform is the market leader in…
Chinese fashion group EP Yaying is planning to expand beyond Asia by launching in the US and Australia by next year. The group is bullish about the increasing popularity of the Chinese culture-inspired fashion and believes it will resonate with foreign…
Nike has brought its popular ‘Nike By You’ customization service to Australia. Launching in Nike’s redesigned Melbourne Central store, which opened last Friday, the service allows customers to personalize their Nike sneakers and apparel by printing and…
Australian low-cost airline Tigerair has extended Power-by-the-Hour (PBH) contract with AJW Group. AJW Group specializes in the global management of aircraft spares. The company has been providing an integrated component pooling, repair and logistics support…
Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Perth by the end of the year to keep up with increasing demand and offer fast delivery to more customers, the e-commerce company has said. The facility, which is expected to be operational in late 2019, is Amazon’s…
Myer on Friday opened the doors to a refurbished homewares and electronics department in its Sydney CBD store. The new floor contains 20 shop-in-shop concepts from leading brands, including Scanpan, Le Creuset, Delonghi, Breville, Riedel, Fissler, Salt &…
Amazon Australia is further challenging the nation’s biggest supermarkets with the launch today of a subscription service which allows consumers to have household essentials delivered regularly at a 10 percent discount. Amazon’s ‘Subscribe and Save’, which…
Flight Centre Travel Group has paid $252,000 in fines after misleading customers with unclear promotions during the 2018 Christmas and 2019 Easter periods. The travel group offered customers who spent $1500 on a holiday package during these periods a $250…
David Jones has opened its first standalone food store in Melbourne in a bid to lock down Australia’s gourmet grocery market and take share off the country’s leading supermarkets, Coles and Woolworths, by offering fresher and, it argues, tastier prepared…
“We have said we intend to lead on 5G and with these 5G-enabled Wi-Fi hotspots Australian consumers will be among the first people in the world to try the technology,” Mr. Wright said. “Taking 5G technology out of a lab and into the hands of consumers is…
With 5G being available in the enterprise market, it is expected to generate around AUD45 billion ($31.1 billion) in value per year by the mid-2020s. The economic earnings will come from next-generation application development, IT services, platforms, and…
The Australian-based company began marketing its broadband plans for the new HTC 5G Hub and will soon start selling the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G. They also plan to introduce their mobile plans for the new technology by the end of June. The company said it would…
Kathmandu has raised nearly $96 million from institutional investors via a fully underwritten 1 for 4 pro rata accelerated entitlement offer to help fund its acquisition of Rip Curl. Eligible institutional shareholders took up 88 per cent of their…
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