Woolworths on Trade Intelligence

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Woolworths Holdings Ltd (WHL) is a South African-based business with two operating divisions: Woolworths South Africa (WSA), operating across sub-Saharan Africa; and the Country Road Group (CRG), based in Australia and trading in Australia, New Zeala...

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Woolworths in the Trade Tatler

Woolworths Pet projects

The Competition Commission has tipped its battered grey fedora in the direction of Woolies, giving the Posh One the go-ahead for its acquisition of a 93% stake in Absolute Pets from Sanlam Private Equity and Absolute Pets management. This gives Wooli... More »
- Business Times 17/03/24
Woolworths A Taste of things to come

This is some very snappy headline-writing and no mistake: “Iconic Taste brand embraces a digital-first future.” How about: “Taste mag goes kicking and screaming into online-only format”? Whatever the feelings of the actual journalists over at Taste, ... More »
- Tatler Reporter 05/03/24
Woolworths The smart money is on recovery

Those Woolies interims you were asking about. Turnover was down an eyewatering -23.6% to R38.1bn but hold your horses: revenue from continuing operations – i.e. excluding the loss of sales from the disposal of David Jones in Aus – was up +5.4%, with ... More »
- Ti Research 28/02/24
Woolworths The End of Days

To be clear: the endgame is not microchipped shoppers or tattoos on foreheads. Unless that’s your thing. But it is true that Woolworths, having put the pigeon among the trolls last month by announcing that WCafé’s would now be going cashless, has gon... More »
- Moneyweb 13/02/24
Woolworths Harbouring resentment

A profit warning from Woolies, who expects its half-year haul through December to decline by as much as -10%, as Group turnover increased +5.4%, or +4.4% in constant currency terms – less than half the 12.5% reported in the prior period. What gives? ... More »
- BizCommunity 23/01/24