Furniture and electronics retailer Harvey Norman's half-year net profit has slumped with franchisees' earnings falling and as the group's dairy...

Fuel retailer Caltex Australia will spend up to $120 million in buying out its franchisees to have only company owned service stations by 2020.

Woolworths' first-half profit jumped 37.6 per cent to $969 million after comparable food sales at its Australian supermarkets rose 4.9 per cent.

Super Retail Group will buy New Zealand outdoor brand Macpac for $A135 million.

Village Roadshow has swung back to profit in the first half following its exit from the Singapore cinema business and has flagged a second-half lift...

Myer chief executive Richard Umbers has stepped down from the helm of the struggling department store.

International specialty retailers and consumer electronic players JB Hi-Fi and Apple are offsetting department stores' sales declines, shopping...

Oil and gas producer and explorer AWE has given suitor Mineral Resources three business days to match a superior proposal lobbed by Japanese firm...

Shares in Village Roadshow have plunged by more than 10 per cent after the company warned its first half results will be "substantially below" the...

Consumer confidence is up again--possibly with some help from the cancellation of a planned rail strike in Sydney--and showing encouraging signs of...