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With less than five weeks until Christmas, Kiwi families are busy preparing for the yuletide occasion and The Palms is thrilled to spread more festive cheer by offering shoppers a Christmas gift too big for Santa’s sack – a chance to win a year’s worth of groceries.
The new ceo of Woolworth’s Limited, the Australian retail operator that also owns Countdown supermarkets in New Zealand, has announced an aggressive approach to growing that company’s business.
Countdown is sponsoring the Senior New Zealander of the Year Award, for the second time.
After years of building its business model on high turnover goods requiring minimal skill input from staff, perhaps it is a sign of ‘step change’ in the industry to see British supermarkets delving into similar areas of gourmet supply.
Support for providing breakfasts for children in low decile schools in New Zealand has been dropped by Australian supermarket operator Countdown.
Progressive Enterprises has secured a site in the Auckland CBD with the announcement that it will build a Countdown supermarket in the Finance Centre on Albert Street.
Australasian retail operators Woolworths, which owns New Zealand’s Woolworths and Countdown chains, has been ranked as the 20th largest retail company in the world, according to the latest Global Powers of Retailing report.
Peter Smith, general manager of Progressive Enterprises, operators of Countdown and Woolworths stores in New Zealand, says his company plans to add another 4000 jobs to its workforce over the next five years. The announcement was made to delegates at the NZFGC 2010 conference held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney last week.
The syndication of a Countdown Supermarket in the Fraser Cove Shopping Centre in Tauranga has met with a strong response from investors.
Reporting its 2009/10 performance yesterday, Woolworths Australia declared an increase in food and liquor sales of 5.1% to A$1.7 billion. This performance drove net company profits up 10.1% to A$2 billion.
Investors are being offered a share of one of the country’s biggest supermarkets, the Countdown in the Fraser Cove Shopping Centre in Tauranga.
A pin found in a package of chicken thighs from Countdown in Papamoa has raised questions about the risk management of Progressive Enterprises’ meat processing operations.
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