by Ekrem Duman | Jul 31, 2026 | Australia Company Stories, Retail & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRWhen Amazon launched in Australia in 2017, the consensus was that domestic specialty retailers would be destroyed. They were not. JB Hi-Fi survived by running one of the lowest cost-of-doing-business models in global retail, and Harvey Norman survived by...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 31, 2026 | Australia Company Stories, Retail & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRThe ACCC’s supermarkets inquiry, its first comprehensive grocery review since 2008, delivered 20 recommendations after finding that ALDI, Coles and Woolworths are among the most profitable supermarket businesses among global peers and that their...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 31, 2026 | Australia Company Stories, Retail & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRWesfarmers is Australia’s most successful conglomerate and the owner of Bunnings, Kmart, Target, Officeworks, a health business and a chemicals, energy and fertiliser division. In FY2025 it generated revenue of A$45.7 billion and a record net profit...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 31, 2026 | Australia Company Stories, Retail & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRColes was acquired by Wesfarmers in 2007 in what was then the largest takeover in Australian corporate history, rebuilt over a decade, and demerged as a separate ASX-listed company in 2018. In FY2025 it comprehensively beat Woolworths — supermarket...
by Ekrem Duman | Jul 31, 2026 | Australia Company Stories, Retail & Consumer
⚡ TL;DRWoolworths Group is Australia’s largest grocer, with roughly 36% of food and grocery retailing and group sales of A$69.1 billion in FY2025. That year was also its worst in a decade operationally: normalised net profit fell 17% to A$1.39 billion,...
