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Australia’s newest political party is after a slogan before they launch themselves onto the Australian public. “The Australian Sex Party” does seem to already have a slogan – We’re serious about sex, but they are obviously after something a bit more catchy, meaningful, funny. I don’t know. Anyway you can find the official press release [...]

Continue Reading Use your marketing skills!

Tags: new slogan, political party, press release, sex, the australian sex party

Based on the number of hits “Suntory” and “Schweppes” are delivering to this blog,  I believe the deal is over the line and we just await the official announcement. A number of Schweppes key executive have been offered retention contracts to keep them in the new structure, while the majority will await the fallout from [...]

Continue Reading Schweppes & Suntory Rumour Getting Stronger

Tags: aquisition, buyout, george clooney, Jobs, retention, schweppes, suntory

I have joined Nuffnang which is an Australian based Blogger Advertising community. I have been searching for a locally based pay per click system for my blog for a while and when I found Nuffnang I immediately joined up and added them to my site. I am hoping it provides some value to my readers [...]

Continue Reading What is Nuffnang you may ask?

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Word is Coles are announcing 500 redundancies on Monday! Buyers are not exempt and Wesfarmers are not happy with the buying performance. Buyers have reacted by not accepting price rises and pushing more terms for less activity. Tim Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about [...]

Continue Reading Coles – Merry Christmas Redundancies

Tags: coles, price rises, redundancies, supermarkets, trading terms, wesfarmers

Woo Ho – is the tide turning in Australia.  The lower interest rates and Rudd’s cash injection have definitely had an impact on consumer confidence. As reported in The Age Online today; “The Westpac/Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index, rose by 7.5 per cent in December to 92.0 index points, and this follows a 4.3 per [...]

Continue Reading Surge in Consumer Confidence!

Tags: confidence, consumer confidence, index, melbourne, the age, westpac

ANZ released its’ monthly Job Survey data yesterday and it was very grim reading. The last two months have shown falls of 5.9% in October and 8.6% last month. This two month period is the biggest fall in the index since its inception over 30 years ago. Warren Hogan, ANZ head of Australian economics, made [...]

Continue Reading Merry Christmas – Sorry we are going to have to let you go!

Tags: anz job advertisement, FMCG, index, Jobs, recession, redundancies

Woolworth’s has established a scheme where over 115,000 of their employees will be allowed to spend up to $1000 at any Woolworths store from their pre-tax income. The spending must take place before 9th January 2009. Given that the employees are probably pretty loyal, it is questionable if this will boost sales by very much. [...]

Continue Reading Woolworth’s Pre-Tax Spending Spree

Tags: $1000, Big W, pre-tax, rudd, woolworths

Is it Lion Nathan & Coca Cola or National Foods & Schweppes – common denominator is KIRIN. With the dramatic fall against the Yen by the A$ both options look very possible. I hear the Scweppes deal is very much over the line but if that is the case then it is probably not National [...]

Continue Reading Drinks on the Menu!

Tags: CCA, coca colea, coke, dairy farmers, kirin, lion nathan, national foods, pepsi, schweppes, suntory

Been a big day for worried people. Orders canceled by major retailers, open to buy dollars cut hard and stock not being let out of China. Look we all know it is bad out there but these things become a self fulfilling prophecy after a few weeks. With major orders being canceled and open to [...]

Continue Reading Hit Hard – China, the A$ and the Economy

Tags: china, coles, economy, milk, open to buy, sanlu, scandal, tainted milk, woolworths

The lovely people at Coles Supermarkets have been requesting account managers bring in the Vaseline over the past two weeks. Profit pressures have started a new drive on Trading Terms and Waste Reduction. Measures include deleting some of the best sellers because their waste figures are above the trading terms contribution. Unilever and Nestle have [...]

Continue Reading Coles – Trading Terms and Waste

Tags: coles, coop, nestle, rebates, spend, trading terms, unilever, vaseline, waste