Special Report: Retail Strategies

MUCH of the credit for the recent success of one of Australia’s biggest retailers, Woolworths, is given to Reg Clairs, who climbed the retail ranks all the way from retail trainee to chief executive.

WESFARMERS chief Michael Chaney describes Joe Boros as one of the country’s best retailers.

IT may seem a simple, or rather obvious, business strategy but Patrick Stephenson puts much of his success with the Liberty Liquors chain down to communication and marketing.

WESTERN Australia’s current trading hours regime is an impost to business, according to several big names in the State’s retail landscape.

ROBYN Ahern took a job in the family business, department store Aherns, to earn some money to finance a bit of overseas travel.

AN ability to deliver the right products in the right environment is an essential component in the ever-competitive retail world.

RAY Della-Polina sold his farm businesses to move to the ‘big smoke’ in his 20s and bought into a Perth small-parts business called Marlows.

MURDOCH University post-graduate studies program chair and University of Western Australia PhD student, Grant Robertson, believes shopping for groceries on the Internet will become common-place in 10