According to consumer group Choice, the Australian gift card industry is big business, with over $2.5 billion dollars worth of cards purchased a year. Of those sales, Choice estimates that up to 30% of gift cards and vouchers expire before they can be used. Brisbane entrepreneur Tim Kelly has designed an app to ensure expired […]
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After a two year hiatus the key founder of PumpTV in Australia, Teyghan Stadelbauer, is re-entering the Australian market with pumpMedia solutions from Adverto Outdoor Media. Ms Stadelbauer says the Australian launch of pumpMedia will – for the first time – give Australian petrol retailers the ability to create their own channels and communicate directly
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The Australian Government Department of Health is undertaking a Post Implementation Review of Tobacco Plain Packaging, with a consultation period running from 16 February to 27 March 2015. All interested members of the public are invited to have their say and submit a response to inform the Review. Information collected will inform the analysis of
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Covert operations in Sydney and Wollongong have uncovered illegally counterfeited cigarettes in the olive green plain packaging format, following a tip-off from a retailer. Each year British American Tobacco Australia (BATA) conducts over 3,000 covert operations however this is the first time counterfeits in ‘plain packaging’ have been uncovered. Several of the packs have been
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A Western Australian law academic has supported the legalisation and regulation of e-cigarettes to prevent the uncontrolled importing of the devices and nicotine liquid through online purchases. In research published in the Journal of Law and Medicine, Notre Dame school of law lecturer Marilyn Krawitz said that the current approach is leading to poor quality
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Australian frozen dessert and beverage manufacturer, Frosty Boy Australia, has doubled its production capacity with the official opening of its new factory at Yatala, north of the Gold Coast, on 3 December. Frosty Boy CEO Dirk Pretorius told C&I WEEK that while Frosty Boy’s main Australian distribution is Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) outlets, “Frosty Boy
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Philip Morris Limited has called on the Federal Health Minister to investigate the appointment of anti-tobacco campaigner Melanie Wakefield of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer – one of the chief architects behind the tobacco plain packaging laws – to investigate whether the policy is working. Philip Morris has asked why the Department of
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Illegal tobacco use in Australia continues to grow with a new report revealing around one in every seven cigarettes consumed is illegal, exposing the fact that plain tobacco packaging has proved only a burden to retailers, according to the Australian Retailers Association. And Queensland State Parliament voted last week to prohibit the sale and supply
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New independent research from by KPMG LLP in the UK shows the use of black market illegal tobacco in Australia has reached levels never before experienced and, according to the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores (AACS), it’s not just honest retailers who are feeling the effects. AACS CEO Jeff Rogut said the rampant market for
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Usage of the Oxford Dictionaries 2014 Word of the Year, “vape”— defined as the act of smoking an electronic cigarette — has doubled this year compared to 2013. First used in the 1980s, “Vaping has gone mainstream,” according to Oxford Dictionaries editorial director Judy Pearsall. Celebrities who vape and growing debate on the public dangers
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Australia’s largest mobile virtual network operator, amaysim, was among the winners at the awards ceremony for the 2014 ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50’ and the ‘Leadership Awards’ list. amaysim received double accolades, coming in at number three in the ‘Leadership Awards’ and 13th in the ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50’ at the ceremony held at the ASX
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With many leading USA retailers trialling beacon technology, Woolworths is said to be trialling beacon technology with iPhones at its new store in the eastern Sydney suburb of Double Bay, according to The Australian newspaper. The technology will notify selected shoppers of special offers or product updates on their smartphones while they walk through shopping
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The Australian Study of Health and Relationships (ASHR) is conducted once a decade, and provides a snapshot of the sexual health and well-being of the Australian population and provides information essential for the development of policy and the delivery of sexual and reproductive health programs across Australia. The second Australian Study of Health and Relationships
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