Australia Retail

Retail investors in Qantas vented their frustration during an at-times hostile shareholder meeting on Friday, delivering a scathing criticism of Alan Joyce’s performance and cautious optimism on the board’s ability to recover from past blunders.

Rice and noodles made from WA oats will soon be on supermarket shelves after a Perth company inked a deal with the Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre to begin commercial-scale production.

Brookfield and EIG have increased their offer for Origin Energy to $9.53 a share, as the consortium looks to revive its bid for Australia’s largest electricity and gas retailer with best and final offer of $19.9bn.

Brookfield/EIG have raised their offer for Australia’s biggest energy retailer, from $8.91 a share to $9.53 a share, in a bid to get the blockbuster takeover across the line.

Toyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, launched a startup to help it become a leader in software and other cutting-edge tech. But getting a startup mentality to mesh with a decades-old automaker proved challenging. WSJ reporter River Davis joins host Zoe Thomas to explain what went wrong and how Toyota is trying to correct course. Photo: Edgar Su/REUTERS

Kmart has been fined more than $1.3m by the communications watchdog after an investigation found the discount retailer sent hundreds of thousands of spam emails to customers and ignored repeated warnings from the regulator.

The $18.7bn bid for Australia’s largest energy retailer, Origin Energy, has become a finely balanced, high stakes game which could have very different outcomes for the company’s shareholders.

The huge site in Perth’s north-eastern growth corridor has sold for a fraction under $500 million in what experts say could be the start of a surge in retail sales.