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The company that launched Woolworths online could soon resurrect the retail icon's high street presence. Woolworths appointed Deloitte administrator in November last year after becoming a retail victim of the credit crunch. Full Article at ComputerWeekly.com
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CONSUMERS are being warned that BP will be hiking pump prices by 17 cents from tomorrow, with other companies set to follow in coming days. Full Article at PerthNow
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Woolworths could make a dramatic return to the High Street next year. Plans for a chain of up to 200 stores have been drawn up by the owners of Littlewoods. Full Article at Mirror.co.uk
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CHRISTIE & Co reports that the pubs and licensed trade market has turned the corner with the number of deals on the rise. This is confirmed by Ryden, which says that the market has become more active. Full Article at The Scotsman
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Woolworths could return to the high street under a plan by Shop Direct group, the owner of Littlewoods, to establish a chain of 200 stores. The high-street institution closed this year, at the cost of 27,000 jobs, and left more than 800 empty premises. Full Article at Property Week
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THINK Woolworths and the first thought that comes to mind is: ''The fresh food people.'' It is testament to the power and skill of its marketing program. Full Article at The Age
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LONDON - Cash-poor in life, Woolworths has in death become rich in imitators with two new versions opening up this year. Now the owner of the Woolworths brand is believed to be looking to relaunch stores on the UK high street. Full Article at Brand Republic
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LONDON - Woolworths could return to the high street under a plan by its owner, Shop Direct, to establish a chain of up to 200 stores. Full Article at Brand Republic
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Chinese lenders are not only interested in providing cut-rate financing to resources projects. Full Article at The Age
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You can’t help but notice. The first Christmas without a single Woolworths on the high street for 100 years has sparked a fierce scrap among retailers for the £1.7 billion that the one-time Woolies customer has to spend. Full Article at Times Online
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For Woolworths, the Christmas period was not merely important; it was make-or-break. Full Article at Times Online
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An independent senator will push in Federal Parliament this week for stronger competition laws. Protesters rallied at the weekend in support of an Adelaide western suburbs service station they claim is facing bullying tactics from a multinational rival. Full Article at ABC Online
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THE success of Woolworths' year-old credit card has been called into question by experts who claim the retailer's branding and marketing has failed to draw customers. Full Article at The Age
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A RETAIL war is raging in the shops and main streets of small-town Queensland. Supermarket giants Coles and Woolworths have launched a legion of legal applications to overturn long-standing Sunday trading bans across the state. Full Article at The Courier Mail
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DEVELOPERS could be given greater scope to open more supermarkets in Melbourne's suburbs to break the dominance of Coles and Woolworths under changes being pushed by the Federal Government. Full Article at The Age
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About a year ago, observers of the UK commercial property market would not have been shocked to see the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse riding around the corner. Full Article at Business Week
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A new general store has opened at a former Woolworths site in Worcestershire. Alworths has created 30 jobs in Evesham after being launched by Andy Latham, who worked at the collapsed chain for more than 25 years. Full Article at BBC News
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Johannesburg - South African clothing and food retailer Woolworths expects a 20% fall in first-half earnings per share and said economic conditions were expected to be tough for the remainder of the 2010 financial year. Full Article at News24
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African clothing and food retailer Woolworths expects a 20 percent fall in first-half earnings per share and said economic conditions were expected to be tough for the remainder of the 2010 financial year. Full Article at Moneyweb
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A POWERFUL retail lobby group representing Coles and Woolworths should be investigated for breaching competition laws over the failed Grocery Choice website, a damning Opposition-dominated Senate committee report has recommended. Full Article at The Age
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The Woolworths logo (at right) launched in August 2008 and still being rolled out in stores around Australia is shown in this photo taken in Sydney on October 6, 2009.
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People walk past a Woolworths store in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009.
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The shadow of Woolworths CEO Michael Luscombe is seen as he speaks to media in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 during their full year results announcement.
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Woolworths CEO Michael Luscombe addresses media in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009, during their full year results announcement. Luscombe said the full-year sales rose 7.5 per cent after solid results across its business with total sales climbing to $49.6 billion.
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Shoppers walk at the lingerie section inside the Woolworths store at the Sarit centre shopping mall in Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 21, 2009.
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A staff member arranges merchandise on display inside the Woolworths store at the Sarit centre shopping mall in Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 21, 2009.
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A man leaves a Woolworths supermarket in east Sydney July 22, 2009. Woolworths Ltd, Australia's largest supermarket chain, met its sales growth forecast for the year, reporting a 7.5 percent rise on a normalised basis, powered by strong growth in Australian food and liquor.
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A shopper walks past a former Woolworths store in Ashby de la Zouch, central England March 27, 2009.
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A shopper looks around an empty Woolworths store on its last open day in London in this December 27, 2008 file photo. Small businesses in Europe are failing for want of sums that in terms of national economies -- or even some bankers' pensions -- amount to small change.
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A busker performs in the doorway of a Woolworths shop which has closed down in Chatham, southeast England in this January 22, 2009 file photo.
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A shopper looks around an empty Woolworths store on its last open day in London in this December 27, 2008 file photo. Small businesses in Europe are failing for want of sums that in terms of national economies -- or even some bankers' pensions -- amount to small change.
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A busker performs in the doorway of a Woolworths shop which has closed down in Chatham, southeast England in this January 22, 2009 file photo.
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A man leaves a Woolworths shop in Sandton, northern Johannesburg, January 28, 2009. While bankruptcy stalks shops on European and U.S. high streets, South African malls have kept sales rising, spurring hopes of a quick recovery in Africa's biggest economy and lifting retail stocks.
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STROUD, UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 06: People enter the Stroud branch of Woolworths just before it closed its doors for the final time on January 6, 2009, in Stroud, England.
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A shopper searches for bargains at a branch of Woolworths in Putney in west London January 6, 2009. The British retail store finishes trading at the last of its nationwide chain of stores today, after no buyer was found when the company went into administration.
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A shopper leaves a branch of Woolworths in Putney in west London January 6, 2009. The British retail store finishes trading at the last of its nationwide chain of stores today, after no buyer was found when the company went into administration.
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That sort of thing is increasingly happening ... If you got into Woolworths or Coles, the generic brands are generally coming from the Netherlands, China or New Zealand, which is a fairly significant thing. Imports have increased since 2004 by about 80 per cent.
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We're taking on hard measures by taking down the barriers to competition with Coles and Woolworths ... We are determined to apply the competition blowtorch... We want to see real competition, more supermarkets and that is why the Rudd Government is working with the states and territories to tear down th...
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Over the past two years or so we have found the going to be tough, particularly since the supermarket operators were reduced from three to two consequent upon the Woolworths purchase of Progressive Enterprises
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The demise of Woolworths left a big hole in many high streets, so it’s very encouraging to see a new use has been agreed for this site.
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The market is loving the Wesfarmers trading update, which now shows it's holding its own against rival Woolworths
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A retailer supplied by Danks and located near a Woolworths retail store may have less ability and incentive to vigorously compete with Woolworths, for example by undercutting the prices of the Woolworths retail store, if Woolworths is also its wholesale supplier
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The ACCC considers that even if Woolworths and Lowe's didn't acquire Danks, Woolworths would still be likely to open a network of big box home improvement stores in Australia and these issues are being examined with this in mind
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The stronger retail profit margins currently being enjoyed by the oil companies and Coles and Woolworths have been confirmed
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We're really excited to be launching in Amersham, this will be our second store and we hope it will be well received by the local community. We chose Amersham primarily because it was a very good Woolworths store. Woolworths left a big gap in the high street and in many peoples' lives and we know that s...
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One of our customers said it will be like a posh Woolworths but we'll sell all sorts really. Everything from power tools to bin liners and doormats.
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Given the tiny number of non-aligned large full-line supermarkets currently operating in the ACT there is a very long way to go before these non-aligned, large full-line supermarkets reach the critical mass needed to drive down grocery prices at full-line Coles, Woolworths and IGA supermarkets
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Woolworths' application includes a wide class for electrical goods and technology, putting it in direct competition with Apple should the retailer choose to brand computers, music players or other devices
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Apple will have to convince IP Australia, the Federal Government agency that governs trademarks, to knock back Woolworths' application - filed in August last year - to trademark its logo.
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It shocked Woolworths, but I didn't leave to come here ... I retired from Dan (Murphy's) and I wanted to take some time off. I worked so hard and a couple of years' stopping will do me good.
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Woolworths was buying, Coles were buying, Hedley was buying and it got to a point where values were probably becoming unrealistic
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It's one thing to remove lease restrictions, it's another matter for competitors to get space in shopping centres to be able to compete in the centre with Coles and Woolworths
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Although Coles and Woolworths have a large share of the packaged grocery market, competitors are entering the market and expanding the number of stores they own
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Over 700 supermarket leases were identified through the ACCC investigation as potentially restrictive and this agreement addresses all those existing leases involving Coles and Woolworths, as well as dealing with all future arrangements
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We have been helped by the change in the competitive landscape with the loss of Rosebys and Woolworths and several independents. We are also weather dependent and a miserable summer works in our favour.
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Woolworths' $400 million investment is expected to generate 4000 direct retail jobs over the next five years and during construction of the planned 30 stores statewide is expected to create 11,000 Victorian jobs
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