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Issue 14 - Feb/Mar 09
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Issue 14 - Feb/Mar 09
[ Feature | Australia ]

The key to sound retail financial management

Posted by: Administrator on 09 Mar 2009 4:45:16 AM
Examine any thriving retail business and chances are its financial management protocol will be well in place and effectively implemented. In the current economic climate, good retail financial management has become critical to any business’s sustainability and ability to prosper.
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[ Feature | Australia ]

The power of online marketing

Posted by: Administrator on 09 Mar 2009 4:38:46 AM
I started my marketing career back when Windows 95 first launched – integrating a web browser with the Microsoft Operating System. It was seen as a major innovation in how businesses use computers. From this point, computers could be utilised to access information from other businesses and connect with other individuals anywhere in the world.
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[ Feature | Australia ]

Retailing for Christmas 2008 and going forward into 2009

Posted by: Administrator on 08 Mar 2009 4:54:44 PM
Despite the state of the global economy and slow November Christmas sales, the Rudd stimulus package and lower petrol prices helped Christmas sales skyrocket in the last weeks of December to meet early projections of nearly $37 billion nationally in retail sales.
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[ Profile | Australia ]

Peter Alexander – Excerpts from Celebrating 20 years of sleeping around

Posted by: Administrator on 08 Mar 2009 1:02:34 PM
Pyjama king Peter Alexander has built a successful brand (peter alexander) and retail chain selling highly-fashionable sleepwear.
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[ Column | International ]

Federal Government passes $42 billion stimulus package

Posted by: Administrator on 08 Mar 2009 11:30:10 AM
A word from Craig Emerson – Federal Minister for small business, independent contractors, and the service economy.
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[ Feature | Australia ]

How do retailers prosper in tough times?

Posted by: Administrator on 08 Mar 2009 8:19:23 AM
Prospering during economic down turns? What about plain old survival? Good point. You need to survive first. But you need to plan for a destination greater than simple existence – the law of the jungle is “eat or be eaten”.
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[ Feature | Australia ]

Case Study: Vinnies deploys a new POS system throughout their store network

Posted by: Administrator on 08 Mar 2009 7:58:04 AM
Accurate sales analysis and stock control is the lifeblood for anyone managing a 100-store chain of retail outlets.
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[ Column | Australia ]

Promoting and protecting Australian retailers

Posted by: Administrator on 08 Mar 2009 4:20:47 AM
In late 2007, the then new Executive Director conducted a review of the ARA’s operations and found the retail representative sector in disarray.
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[ Column | Australia ]

Fair work means no work

Posted by: Administrator on 08 Mar 2009 4:11:35 AM
The inconvenient truth of work is that one doesn’t have a job unless our employer is successful. Not moderately successful where they are clinging to life with the good grace of the credit facility at a bank, but successful enough to pay a salary to their employees. Of course it is well accepted Australia’s wealth was created from the sweat of many a worker; and it is also equally true to suggest it would not have been created without investment risk from an employer.
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[ Column | Australia ]

ARA’s Senate Submission on The Fair Work Bill

Posted by: Administrator on 07 Mar 2009 11:00:04 PM
On 9 January 2009, the ARA filed its written submission with the Senate regarding the Fair Work Bill 2008. The Bill proposes significant changes to workplace relations regulation in Australia which will impact on the retail sector.
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[ Column | Australia ]

Workplace bullying

Posted by: Administrator on 07 Mar 2009 10:15:44 PM
Do you know your rights and obligations?
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[ Feature | International ]

Fair Work Bill – how it impacts on retail

Posted by: Administrator on 07 Mar 2009 2:15:41 PM
There has been much legislative change in recent years regarding workplace relations in Australia. This change impacts on employer costs and creates uncertainty in the community regarding minimum conditions of employment.
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