The NAB’s quarterly business survey shows improvements in confidence, expectations and conditions ahead of tomorrow’s important consumer inflation figures.
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Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Kyle and the meeja
Crikey readers continue to weigh in on Steve Fielding’s spelling issues and whether Godwin’s Law will bring down vile Kyle Sandilands.
Coles folds on pokies, will Woolies be next?
Those nice men from Wesfarmers, sitting in pokies-free Perth, have wilted in the face of a strong campaign over kids in venues and committed to spend millions cleaning up their gambling venues, writes Stephen Mayne.
MasterChef set to be spoiled by sponsors
It was nice while it lasted: the forthcoming series of Celebrity MasterChef Australia will give its sponsors — including McDonald’s, Harvey Norman and Coles — “tailored on-air” integration, meaning more spruiking and less sauteing.
Two supermarkets, one leader
Woolworths is in another class from Coles, says Malcolm Maiden. With Woolies lifting food and liquor sales by 7.4% in the last year, Coles is left to hope: surely they can’t keep this up.
Tips and rumours: Gay Christian speaker prevented from speaking at church
The Anglican Church uninvite a gay speaker, Coles definitely not the fresh food people, jumps racing horses don’t have great odds.
Tips and rumours: The Maldives are sinking too
A Crikey tipster says today: Oxfam AND Crikey have forgotten the Maldives, whose president recently announced he was looking to evacuate his entire 350,000 people to either Sri Lanka or Indonesia.
Will we really love Coles? Thoughts on a female-friendly publicity stunt
Is there much beyond Coles’ special no-tax tampon offer than clever marketing? Mel Campbell suspects not.
Tips and rumours: Asking the right questions on Utegate
A tipster says the search for the Utegate email was a case of hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, and what was Victorian MP George Seitz doing at Westminster?
Petrol pricing move likely to backfire on the major retailers
Whilst shopper docket schemes at Coles and Woolworths have been considered pro-competitive up to now, the ACCC are now looking a bit more closely.
Qantas-Woolworths loyalty monopoly
The long previewed points earning linkage between Woolworths and Qantas gets yet another media launch today, this time with a start date and some interesting extra spin.
Morning Market Report: Resources damage market
The market took a hit from the resource sector, down 41 with BHP and RIO down 2.3% and 4.1% respectively.
Wesfarmers hit with enormous cash deluge
Wesfarmers has just been hit by the biggest cash deluge a secondary market capital raising has ever delivered in Australia, writes Stephen Mayne.
Coles update spot on! Now what?
There is no doubt that these presentations are delivered with passion and belief that the things that need to be done will turn the enterprise around and satisfy the needs of all stakeholders in the future, writes Laurie Giuseppeni.
Coles and Red Rooster lead Olympics cash in
Fast food chain Red Rooster and retailer Coles are among the early leaders in local heats of the 2008 Beijing Olympics ambush marketing competition, writes Stephen Downes.
Grocery watch won’t help the little guy: two retail insiders weigh in
Former retail executive Laurie Giuseppini and retail recruitment commentatorRob Lake cast a critical eye over GROCERYchoice, the government’s new system for monitoring grocery prices.
Tips and rumours
Wesfarmers has not been able to make headway at Coles against the entrenched culture. Long term senior managers feeling somewhat relieved at having survived the first wave of the Wesfarmers takeover activity. As the Wesfarmers team now hand over to Ian McLeod to manage, Coles managers have been a bit puzzled at the gentleness of […]
Tips and rumours
A curious omission from Ms Zaetta’s CV. The music career that never took off. Jill Hall, the Federal Member for Shortland, might have been a little more transparent in her appeal to ALP colleagues for assistance for Kathy Orkopoulos and her daughter. Kathy Orkopoulos is on her electoral office staff, although is currently on leave. The […]
The spin starts here: Woolies fronts the ACCC
Yesterday was never going to be easy for Woolies boss Michael Luscombe, writes Trevor Cook.
Tips and rumours
NSW Premier Morris Iemma’s trade mission to China has already suffered its first diplomatic stumble. Iemma, accompanied by his Primary Industries and Energy Minister Ian Macdonald, flew to China last week with representatives from 33 NSW companies. In parliament last Thursday Iemma boasted that the delegation also comprised officials from nine NSW universities “underscoring the […]
Woolies widening the gap on Coles
Any turnaround of Coles will be at a huge expense, writes former Coles executive Laurie Giuseppini.
Merrill Lynch says sell Wesfarmers, risk “too high”
Merrill Lynch has issued a very strong “sell” recommendation for Wesfarmers following the company’s $2.5 billion rights issue to help fund its $18 billion aquisition of Coles, writes Glenn Dyer.
Tips and rumours
In the wake of huge losses by MFS shareholders, and job losses at MFS itself, what does the company do? It buys a corporate box at Suncorp Stadium of course. How indulgent. The illustrious leader of the Victorian ALP, Stephen Newnham, sent a begging letter to some hapless members last week about the Gippsland by-election […]
Tips and rumours
Apparently, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet have asked for volunteers within its Department to take notes at the 2020 summit. That’s volunteers … i.e. unpaid work over a weekend. They are selling it as a great development/career opportunity. Fabulous! Those hoping for a night of the long knives scenario in the senior ranks […]
Alcohol, it’s a super market
Want to curb teen drinking? Talk to the retailers, writes Glenn Dyer.
