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Business view of the economy best in seven years

Overall assessment of the economy among Australian businesses has reached its highest level since December 2010, according to the latest Sensis Business Index (SBI).  Almost three in 10 surveyed small and medium businesses...

BP links with OzHarvest to help feed the needy

BP Australia President Andy Holmes went up against OzHarvest CEO and founder Ronni Kahn in a cooking challenge to raise awareness and funds for OzHarvest’s upcoming CEO CookOff 2018. The challenge, in the...

Caltex and Slingshot launch Spark innovation program

Caltex Australia has teamed up with ‘corporate accelerator’ Slingshot to launch Caltex Spark, an innovation program that will involve the transport and fuel company working with start-up firms and budding entrepreneurs to...

Growing healthy-drink sales with messaging

Messages focusing on the attributes of a beverage can increase sales – but not always, according to two pilot tests conducted by the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) in the US. NACS...

Recalibrate your approach to reach millennials

Retailers should reassess their business strategy and technological prowess by benchmarking their store layouts, systems and processes against shopping preferences of millennials and post-millennials, who are going to redefine the future of...

Diesel-fuel vehicles drop in popularity

The popularity of diesel-fuel vehicles has fallen slightly in recent years with 45 per cent of people surveyed in a Roy Morgan Research study saying they would seriously consider buying a diesel-fuel...

Weekly petrol prices

The average price of unleaded petrol in Australia fell to 136.7¢ a litre nationally in the week ending February 4, according to the Australian Institute of Petroleum’s Weekly Petrol Prices report. The average national...

Excuses on e-cigarette ban run out of puff

Liberal Democrats Leader David Leyonhjelm says the “spurious argument” put forward by Australian anti-vaping lobbyists – that legalising e-cigarettes would lead to more young people taking up smoking – has been knocked...

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