Department store chain Myer has experienced its second consecutive quarter of comparable sales growth but chief Bernie Brookes is remaining cautious about Christmas sales.
Wesfarmers chief executive Richard Goyder says the company is performing in line with its profit guidance so far this financial year and its retail businesses are continuing to grow.
A transport union which says Coles risks lives by pressuring truck drivers to meet tight deadlines is staging protests aimed at the supermarket giant's shareholders as well as customers.
Hardware giant Bunnings has announced it will invest $135 million dollars in network expansion in Western Australia, at the opening of its new store in Armadale today.
Scooter manufacturer and retailer Vmoto has been admitted to London's Alternative Investment Market after raising £1.6 million ($2.44 million) through a share placement.
A push by state governments to lower or scrap the GST threshold on online purchases from overseas would create a level playing field for the country's retailers, a peak lobby group says.
Household and automotive products supplier GUD Holdings says most of its businesses are under pressure and has warned that profits in the first half of the current financial year may be 15 per cent
Growing Australian interest in Halloween is making the quintessentially American celebration as important for retailers as Easter and Christmas, the peak retailers' group says.
Plans are in motion for a $350 to $400 million redevelopment of Booragoon's Garden City shopping centre, after a complex multi-million dollar ownership swap between Westfield and AMP Capital.
Automotive Holdings Group chairman Bronte Howson sold off $2.5 million in shares he received as an incentive after the car dealer network achieved a 94th percentile ranking in shareholder returns o
Woolworths is spinning off its $1.4 billion shopping centres portfolio in a move that is expected to free up cash to help fight its price war with rival Coles.
Shares in troubled surf retailer Billabong have dived 18 per cent due to speculation a second private equity firm was considering withdrawing its takeover bid.
Australians are buying more cars and trucks this year with new vehicle sales increasing 9.4 per cent for the first nine months of the year, compared to the same period in 2011.
Woolworths shares have dipped slightly in early trade after it announced the sale of its Dick Smith Electronics chain to a private equity firm for $20 million.
Shares in Billabong have dived after the troubled surfwear retailer said one of two private equity firms interested in taking over the group had withdrawn its offer.
Cautious consumers are keeping their wallets firmly shut and business needs to adapt to this new-found frugality, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia says.
