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Wesfarmers Breaks Buffett Playbook With $20 Billion Spinoff: Gadfly

In its pomp, Australia's Wesfarmers liked to think of itself as a sort of antipodean Berkshire Hathaway: buying undervalued, cash-producing businesses and...

Woolworths Is Smashing Coles In Australia's Supermarket Wars

Woolworths Group is winning the war against Coles. Comparable food sales jumped 5% at the Australian supermarket chain in the fiscal second quarter...

Australian Consumers Spooked As Sales Show Weakest Run In 7 Years

Australia’s heavily indebted households are pulling down the shutters on consumption as retail sales suffered the weakest three-month stretch in seve...

Woolworths Wrestles Back Australian Retail Crown: Gadfly

Australia's two dominant supermarkets seem to have been fighting the same grudge match since the days of Cain and Abel. With about two-thirds of the countr...

Australian Retailers Fear 3.3% Wage Increase Will Impact Industry Growth

The Australian Retailers Association (ARA) has announced that it is 'extremely concerned' that the national minimum wage increase of 3.3% will ‘stifl...