Eli Greenblat

Eli Greenblat

Eli Greenblat is a business reporter covering the retail and beverage sectors.

Treasury shares slide after weak first half

Rich pickings: Treasury expects its premium wines to boost profits in the second half.

Eli Greenblat Chief executive David Dearie is confident the winemaker can turn around a 20 per cent earnings slide.

Treasury shares slide on earnings downgrade

Wine

Eli Greenblat Treasury Wine Estates, one of the world's biggest winemakers and owners of brands such as Penfolds, Wolf Blass, Rosemount and Beringer, has warned its pre-tax earnings for 2013 will be worse than...

No trick, just a big treat for shops as Halloween knocks

Eli Greenblat Coles and Woolworths are reporting sales increases of as much as 30 per cent across lines of costumes, confectionary and pumpkins in the lead-up to Halloween as a growing number of Australians...

Tills ring, but is it a trick or a treat?

Pumpkin

Eli Greenblat FAMILIES are expected to hack away at 100,000 pumpkins this year, devour lollies by the bucket load and dress their children with fangs, spooky ghost sheets or witches hats as the ghoulish festival...

Kirin dairy business no longer a curdling story

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Eli Greenblat Outgoing Lion chief says the company's struggling dairy business has turned the corner.

Woolies chief sees ray of light

AFR.25/08/2011.Photo by ROB HOMER........  new ceo of woolworths GRANT O BRIEN on the grounds of the woolworths headquarters at norwest in sydney,

Eli Greenblat Grant O'Brien has stuck his head above the gloomy clouds and thinks the worst is over.

Coopers goes from (full) strength to strength

Dr Tim Cooper Managing Director and chief brewer at Coopers Brewery, Adelaide. Thursday 23rd June 2011.  The  AFR  Picture By David Mariuz

Eli Greenblat COOPERS BREWERY, which this year became the largest Australian owned brewer, has generated a 17.5 per cent lift in full-year profit on the back of continued strong demand for its portfolio of beers...

Last drinks: Swan Brewery to close

beer

Eli Greenblat Australia's biggest brewer, Lion, has announced this afternoon its intention to close the Swan Brewery located at Canning Vale in Western Australia with the loss of around 80 jobs.

Kirin profits sent reeling by discount milk prices

Kirin blames yesterday's share plunge on its Australian dairy division.

Eli Greenblat SLUGGISH earnings growth, discounting and intense competition in its dairy division have hit Australia's biggest brewer, forcing its Japanese owner, Kirin, to issue a profit warning that sent its...

Kirin plunges after poor Australian growth

Lion Nathan and Kirin.

Eli Greenblat Australia's biggest brewer Lion has been hit by sluggish earnings growth, discounting and intense competition in its dairy division, forcing its Japanese conglomerate owner Kirin to issue a profit...

Ikea to slash prices as it doubles number of stores

The new IKEA Australia store in Tempe.

Eli Greenblat IKEA has tagged Australia as one of the most expensive places to do business and will double its store network here in coming years while slashing prices to remain competitive.

Ikea to double store numbers and slash prices to stay ahead of game

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Eli Greenblat The global retailer has tagged Australia as one of the most expensive places to do business.

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Wine sales to China boom

Wine glasses

Eli Greenblat China's love affair with wine, and particularly Australian wine, continues to leap ahead with double-digit growth in value and volume.

Billabong dumped after TPG walks away

Shares in Billabong skidded to an all-time-low after TPG walks away.

Eli Greenblat Shares in Billabong hit an all-time low after TPG walk away from its takeover proposal.

Postal service has $2bn plan for web shopping boom

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Eli Greenblat Australia Post to digitise mail delivery services and increase parcel sorting capacity.

Australia Post parcels off $2bn for future

Australia Post.

Eli Greenblat Australia Post will invest $2 billion under its ‘‘future ready’’ strategy to ensure customers can "reap the benefits of the digital economy".

Shops take web share

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Eli Greenblat Data suggests retailers are clawing back online market share from internet businesses.

Bricks-and-mortar build online market share

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Eli Greenblat Traditional "bricks-and-mortar" retailers, long the laggards in driving online sales, could be fighting back, a study shows.

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Regulator throws a spanner in the hardware works

Artist's impression of Masters, the new hardware chain from Woolworths.

Eli Greenblat The competition regulator has dealt a blow to Woolworths' plans to expand in the $40 billion national hardware market.

ACCC puts dampener on Woolworths' hardware plans

Masters hardware stores criticised as 'female friendly' in a report prepared for competitor, Bunnings.

Eli Greenblat Woolworths' ambitious plans to break into the $40 billion hardware sector have suffered a slight setback after the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced it would oppose its...