Smoking to be banned in North Sydney
The Council of North Sydney has unanimously voted to ban all smoking on the surrounding streets.
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Australian packaging reformed by 2025
New recycling targets have been introduced into Australia, requiring all packaging to be reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025. Seven News said on its Sunrise morning show: “New recycling labels are also being unveiled, which will do away with around 200 existing labels.” “You’ll still need to check with your council to see if some
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Gatorade launches new low-sugar formula
Gatorade has launched G2, a new sports drink formula with less than two percent sugar. G2 has been scientifically designed to provide low sugar fuel for your workout along with electrolytes to help replace what is lost in sweat. G2 is available in three refreshing flavours: Glacier Freeze, Raspberry and Citrus Burst. ”G2 is an
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Shoppers going cashless
A new report has shown that one-in-three Australians exclusively favour cards over cash to do their shopping. According to a poll of 1000 Australians, the YouGov Galaxy poll said millions have ditched traditional cash payments in favour of card. Four-in-five Australians said that paying by card was much more convenient than paying with cash. Around five
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Patties speaks of the future Part 2
This is part of a recent conversaion between Patties GM OOH Matt Dodson and C&I. You can read part 1 here. Is there still a big market for Tradies (to eat pies)? It’s funny, we’re mid-way through our market research, we’re doing quite extensive research into the total convenience channel at the moment- and there
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Real life Kwik-E-Mart opens in USA
The infamous convenience store in hit-show ‘The Simpsons’ has been opened in real life. Myrtle Beach in South Carolina is now home to the full-service Kwik-E-Mart. The store is filled with products that have appeared on the show of the 29 seasons including Squishee frozen drinks, Heat Lamp Hot Dog and Lard Lad donuts. The
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Take control of your tobacco sales
GM Global Solutions was proud to attend last C&I EXPO in Melbourne. Throughout the exhibition, we showed some of our automated tobacco sales solutions (vending and dispensing) and also had the opportunity to see what is happening in the retail industry “down under”. As a European company, which has been manufacturing and supplying automated tobacco systems since 1996
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7-Eleven Australia celebrates store leaders
7-Eleven Australia celebrated outstanding achievements by its franchisees and corporate store managers at its spirit awards. The awards were presented as part of the company’s store leader conferences held in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne recently. According to 7-Eleven Chief Executive Officer, Angus McKay, award winners recognised at the event live the company’s values in
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Carey Hart’s petrol station run-in
The husband of famous singer PINK, and motorcross star Carey Heart was recently caught up in a confrontation with a petrol station in Brisbane. Mr Hart posted a video to his Instagram page in which he wrote a caption explaining what happened when he was approached by an employee from the petrol station. “I just
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Nestlé commits to help consumers fight recycling confusion
Nestlé Australia today announced its commitment to introduce the Australasian Recycling Label across all of its locally made products by 2020 to help consumers recycle their packaging correctly. Nestlé has started to implement the new label, which will first come on to Allen’s lollies from today, beginning with Strawberries & Cream and Snakes Alive. Allen’s
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7-Eleven CEO challenges the convenience industry to change
7-Eleven CEO Angus McKay presented a keynote speech at the 2018 AACS Summit in Melbourne this week and challenged the convenience industry to continue changing to remain relevant to consumers. “Out of the gate, you might question my credentials after all I am a relative newcomer to this industry, with only two and a half
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AACS annual awards winners take a well-earned bow
Over 650 leading lights in the Australian convenience industry came together at Crown in Melbourne last night to celebrate the inspiring achievements of the top retailers, suppliers, stores and up-and-coming talent in convenience at the AACS Gala & Awards dinner. The first award given out was a special celebratory award for Keith Berg and Safa
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Moccona’s new Single Shot Ice Brew
Moccona has released it’s newest innovation, Single Shot Ice Brew. Available in a 390ml bottle, there are two variants to choose from- Single Shot Ice Brew and Single Shot Ice Brew with Coconut. This new direction from Moccona has been in development for two years, lead by a global team and so far has had
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