Support Small Business Day, held in Victoria this year on October 4, is a welcome addition to other recent SME event campaigns the American Express-led ‘Shop Small’ and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Small Business ‘Too Big to Ignore’. Victoria’s second Support Small Business Day attracted 3,387 small business and 2,523 shopper registrations […]
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NCR Corporation has announced that it is upgrading Coles Supermarkets’ NCR FastLane SelfServ™ Checkout lanes with NCR Note Recycling capability. The Note Recycling solution will assist Coles to lower cash floats and reduce replenishment cycles as it recycles cash notes accepted in self-checkout machines, dispensing them as change in subsequent transactions. In addition, the Note
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Next week 13 previously casual workers at the Woolworths supermarket warehouse in Yennora will become permanent employees after fighting for greater job security and certainty in working hours and entitlements. The National Union of Workers helped the 13 casual positions become permanent through a Memorandum of Understanding with the company. According to Mark Ptolemy of
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The Distributors have taken advantage of the Stock Box program by promoting it to their Advantage loyalty program customers nationally, as an added service to promote new lines and product launches and to test new product concepts. “The reality is that there are many new lines that are launched into the market each and every
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The Distributors are proud to announce their support of the Ride to Conquer Cancer® events being held across Australia this month. Rides are being held in Sydney on 11-12 October, Perth on 18-19 October and in Melbourne on 25-26 October 2014. Each Ride is held over 2 days and 200 kilometres and is for anyone
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For the third year running, Australia’s entrants have enjoyed prestigious wins at the international convenience industry awards, which are part of the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Show in the US. As the 2014 winners of the Peter Jowett Scholarship Award, administered by the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS), Callum MacKay of 7-Eleven
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Following the Fair Work Ombudsman’s August call to national supermarket chains and shopping centres, Coles is the first major chain to publicly declare it has an “ethical and moral responsibility” to join with the Ombudsman and stamp out exploitation of vulnerable trolley collectors. Some trolley collectors are being paid as little as $5 an hour,
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37 years after the first store opened, 7-Eleven celebrated the opening of its 600th store at Gumdale in Queensland on Thursday 2 October 2014 .
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Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has questioned the outcomes of the Harper Competition Policy Review last week and plans to challenge the Harper Review’s proposed changes to market power laws. Cabinet Ministers are considering Mr Joyce’s agriculture competitiveness paper that considers tougher competition law changes to protect farmers from alleged misuse of market power by supermarkets
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At the BRW Best Places to Work 2014 Study awards ceremony held in Sydney on the 11 September, Mars Australia was the only food manufacturing business to be listed in the top 25, ranking twentieth in the list. The Mars Australia entry represented over 2,000 Mars Associates employed across four segments for: Mars Chocolate in
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BP has today renewed its commitment to raise funds for the McGrath Foundation by going pink to launch a national social fundraising initiative, #BPPinkPledge. The dynamic move by BP sees flagship Sydney service station, BP Rozelle, transform from the signature BP green into McGrath Foundation pink – from pillars to pumps, with a bright pink
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The Chairman of the Australian National Retailers Association (ANRA), Mr Grant O’Brien, announced the appointment of Ms Anna McPhee as the new Chief Executive Officer of Australia’s peak retail group this week. Ms McPhee has over 20 years’ experience in retail businesses, representative groups and politics, and policy advocacy, with her most recent role being
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The release of the half year AACS State of the Industry report into the performance of the Australian convenience industry demonstrates the resilience of the convenience sector and the value proposition that stores continue to offer their customers. The report, from the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS), shows the convenience channel recorded a strong
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