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Company results: how competition is transforming Australia's retail sector

  • Written by John Rice, Professor of Management, University of New England
imageAldi's decidedly Germanic expansion strategy continues to eat into Woolworths’ earnings.AAP/Lukas Coch

Australian companies have just finished reporting their half year results, so our experts are measuring up how these businesses are fairing on a number of fronts: domestic competition, international strategy, business sentiment and...

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