Arnott’s has pledged to donate $350,000 worth of their products to help combat food insecurity during COVID-19. The donation will be made to food charity Foodbank Australia, who Arnott’s has supported for more than 10 years and who they have donated millions of kilograms of food to in support of vulnerable communities. The donation also […]
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Coles has secured long-term pre-lease commitments for two new high-tech online customer fulfilment centres in Sydney and Melbourne. Leased through Charter Hall, both facilities are anticipated to be operational by 2022 and will focus primarily on fulfilling online food and grocery orders. Both will feature UK based Ocado Group’s automated single-pick fulfilment technology and end-to-end
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Wholesaler Metcash has successfully raised $300 million in capital by selling off 107 million new shares. The shares were placed up for sale yesterday at a discounted price of $2.80, down 7.9% on the $3.04 at the ASX close of trade on Friday, when the sale was announced. The new shares were quickly snapped up
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As COVID-19 continues to impact daily life, consumers are increasingly turning towards convenience stores to source essentials. The Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS) CEO Jeff Rogut said consumers were favouring convenience stores for shopping as they were hyper-local, easily accessible and typically less crowded than supermarkets. A recent survey, How shoppers are using convenience stores
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The start of 2020 has seen us face unprecedented times with bushfires and now COVID-19, however despite these challenges, Flexikitch are determined to support their customers as they adapt to the ever-changing business environment. After years of owning hospitality businesses, Alex Aldis and Meaghan Montgomery founded Flexikitch in 2013 and decided to create a product
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Unilever and Reckitt Benckiser are two of the latest companies to step up and pitch in to help during the Covid-19 crisis. As businesses feel the pinch from significant government trading restrictions aimed at reducing the spread of the deadly pandemic and vulnerable Australians face product shortages due to panic buying, the two consumer goods
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As lockdown measures are expanded across Australia in response to Covid-19, an increasing number of businesses are finding themselves affected by the economic fall out. The government has announced a stimulus package aimed at keeping people in jobs and helping small and medium sized businesses through the challenging months ahead, including the second stage outlined
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The federal government has this morning unveiled its stimulus package, in an attempt to keep Australia out of a recession as COVID-19 cases continue to increase. The $17.6 billion package, worth just over 1% of Australia’s total GDP, will be rolled out over the next three years, $11 billion of which will be released by
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Fuel companies in Australia continue to perform strongly, despite the global downturn in crude oil, taking out top spots in a list of top 100 manufacturers. The Advance Manufacturing Expo’s list, based on IBISWorld’s assessment of data from ASIC-lodged company reports, put Caltex first – for the second year running, BP Australia third (up from
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Nestlé have partnered with Australian recycler iQ Renew for an innovative solution to soft-plastic recycling. The company are set to launch a trial which would see soft plastics collected from 100,000 homes via kerbside recycling, before being sorted and processed. It will initially involve 2,000 households, before it’s rolled out to the remainder later this
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Coca-Cola are the latest company to feel the squeeze from COVID-19 containment measures. The Coca-Cola company have flagged potential product delays as it deals with supply chain issues for the sugar substitutes used in the diet and Coke-Zero ranges, which are sourced from China. Releasing their annual report to the US Security Exchange Commission, the
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The proposed acquisition of Lion Dairy and Drinks would be just the start of big expansion plans for Chinese company Mengniu Dairy, according to data analytics and consulting company GlobalData. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission last week gave the green light for the acquisition, which would see Lion D&D’s dairy business (currently a subsidiary
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The ACCC has given the green light for Chinese company Mengniu Dairy to take over Lion Dairy and Drinks. The consumer watchdog announced this morning it would not oppose the acquisition, which would include LD&D’s Australian raw milk processing facilities in Chelsea and Morwell, Victoria. A spokesperson for Lion told C&I they welcomed the decision.
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