Carrie LaFrenz

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May 9, 2025 – 12.14pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Billionaire rag trader Solomon Lew has made plenty of headlines over the past year with the remaking of his retail empire, Premier Investments, and his long expected tie up with department store Myer.

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May 7, 2025 – 12.34pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Sales momentum at electronics retailing giant JB Hi-Fi slowed through the third quarter after a stronger January in its key Australian business. The retailer said sales grew 6.5 per cent, or by 6 per cent on a same-store basis, in its Australian JB Hi-Fi stores in the three months to the end of March. Loading...

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Michael Smith, Carrie LaFrenz and Amelia McGuireMay 6, 2025 – 7.25pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Macquarie Group chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake says Australia will pay the price for complacency if Anthony Albanese’s second-term government and business do not take decisive action to safeguard the country from rising global political turmoil.

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May 6, 2025 – 4.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Wesfarmers chief executive Rob Scott said the price of goods for Australian consumers could be headed lower as the US-China trade war causes Chinese suppliers to seek alternative markets.

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May 5, 2025 – 6.32pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Harris Farm Markets breached its banking covenants last year, after the high-end grocery chain reported that annual losses had more than tripled to $22 million due to substantial problems with the roll-out of a new business software system.