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Harveys To Anchor New Bulky Goods Site

Harvey Norman will part of a 50 per cent stake along with Charter Hill in the development of a 60,000-square metre bulky goods centre at Gepps Cross, 10kms north of...

Archive, Retail

Will Today’s Interest Rate Rise Impact Retailers?

Today's interest rates rise of 0.25 per cent to an 11-year high of 6.75 per cent won't affect the retail economy too much as consumers have become immune to the...

Archive, Retail

MapData Offers Online Mapping For Businesses

Microsoft's Virtual Earth has formed a partnership with MapData Sciences Pty Ltd, to provide customised mapping solutions and support to meet demand from small and large businesses in Australia and...

Archive, Services

Investors Today Vote On Coles Buyout

Investors in Coles Group Limited will today vote on a proposal by chairman, Rick Allert, to enable Wesfarmers to acquire the Group under a Scheme of Arrangement which will see...

Archive, Property

BSR Group Steady Despite Hardships

BSR, the retail group formed by disenfranchised Betta Stores Limited members when the chain when into administration and then receivership in late 2006, has just announced that its profits for...

Archive, Retail

Online Marketing Tool For Retail Industry

Companies in the franchise, manufacturing, fast-moving consumer goods, distribution and finance sectors can now use a new internet-based computer service by MapData Sciences to plan the location of new stores,...

Archive, Marketing

Local Spam Slow In US Shadow

Australia and New Zealand are relatively clean when compared with the 12 top spam-relaying countries for the third quarter of 2007, according to research put together by IT security company,...

Archive, Internet

Rudd and Conroy Wrong Over Oz Broadband

Communications and IT Minister Helen Coonan has taken solace - and a few political points - in new OECD figures that place Australia's broadband speeds ninth in the world in...

Archive, Internet

Green Marketing Not So Clean

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) will be cracking down on so-called 'green' products and services, following a new marketing trend which has seen a major burst of apparently...

Archive, Marketing

Small IT Training Business Wins Big Award

A four-year-old IT and training company that employs 17 staff members in Adelaide has beaten a pack of small businesses from the retail, service and manufacturing industries around the country...

Archive, Services