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- Updated Jul 31, 2026
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The ACCC Supermarket Inquiry: What It Found About Australia’s Grocery Duopoly
Twenty recommendations, 20,000 consumer submissions and a Federal Court finding against Coles. What Australia’s supermarket inquiry actually concluded – and the one recommendation that could change the market.
Wesfarmers: The Conglomerate That Works, and Why Bunnings Is Unbeatable
Wesfarmers earns A$4.5 billion of EBIT from hardware, discount retail and chemicals. Why Bunnings has never been successfully challenged, how Kmart rebuilt itself around one brand, and where the risk sits.
Coles Group: The Turnaround, the Demerger and the Year It Beat Woolworths
Wesfarmers bought Coles in the largest takeover in Australian history, fixed it over a decade, then let it go. In FY2025 it beat Woolworths outright – and then gave the advantage straight back.
Woolworths Group: How Australia’s Biggest Grocer Lost a Year
Woolworths sells A$69 billion of groceries a year and still had its worst year in a decade. The arithmetic of a 1.4% price cut in a 5% margin business, and why Coles nearly overtook it.
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