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Woolworths and Wesfarmers in GLOBAL top 250 Retailers list

March 18, 2014 by Reporter Leave a Comment

Article updated:

Australian  favourite retail giants, Woolworths and Wesfarmers ( Coles Supermarkets), are now listed in the world’s top 25 retail companies list.

Top Australian Retailer in Global Rankings

 

coles against woolworths

The report brought out by research agency Deloitte , identifies the “250 largest retailers by revenue globally” for the fiscal year 2010, lists Woolworths in 20th (26th last year) and Wesfarmers in 23rd position (28th last year).

While the global downturn and economic slowdowns have seen many  top retailers companies going down the list , The Australian retail companies both Woolworths and Wesfarmers both  have jumped up by the list by six and five places  respectively.

The global Retailers list

 

The top Global retailers rankings also included other top global retail companies like WALMART ( No .1 From USA ) , CAREFOUR S.A. ( No.2 – From France ), TESCO PLC ( No. 3 – From UK)

wesfarmers top retailer list

Among the top 30 were also other companies like Costo , Best Buy Co,  Safeway , Ikea and Amazon. Brazil another rapidly growing economy has topped the “top 10 Latin Americas retailer  list”  with its “Grupo Pao De Acucar” taking the top honours.

So what is the big giants Woolworths and Wesfarmers made up of ?

Below is a listing of  the different divisions and businesses that make up the two Goliath’s of  australia

Wesfarmers

§ Retail – Coles, Bi-Lo, Liqourland, Coles express, Coles.com.au, First Choice Liquor, Vintage Cellars, Target, Target Country, K Mart, Kmart Tyre and Auto Services

§ Home Improvement – Bunnings, Bunnings Warehouse, Bunnings Trade

§ Office Supplies – Officeworks

§ Insurance – Lumley, WFi, Oamps, Crombie Lockwood

§ Resources – Urragh, Bengalla

§ Chemicals and Fertilisers – CSBP, QNP (Queensland Nitrates) and AGR (Australian Gold Reagents)

§ Gas/Energy – Kleenheat Gas, Evol LNG, Premier Power (electricity)

§ Industrial and Safety – Blackwoods, Protector Alsafe, Bullivants, Total fasteners, Coregas, Blackwoods Protector, Packaging House, Gotstock.com.au, Safety Source

§ Others, and stakes in – ModWood wood-plastic products, 50% stake each in Gresham Partners (Barminco, Silk Logistics Group and Tasmanian Walking Company) and Westpine Industries and a 24% stake in BWP warehouse retailing properties.

Woolworths

§ Retail – Woolworths Supermarkets, Woolworths Petrol, Big W, BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Wine market, Cellarmasters, Ezibuy, Countdown, Thomas Dux.

§ Home Improvement – Masters

§ Hospitality – ALH (Australia Leisure and Hospitality) group and its brands including Great Food Great Value, Live At Your Local, 28s, Function Venue Finder and Graziers beef.

§ Finance – Woolworths Money credit cards, Reloadable MasterCards and Gift cards.

§ Others – Woolworths Mobile, Langton’s

More details  about the top global retailers can be got from the Deloitte website

Download Global Powers of Retail 2011 Read and download the full report ‘Global Powers of Retailing 2011’ in PDF format.

Filed Under: 2012, Australia, Business, Online retailing, Retail, Shopping, World Tagged With: Australian, Bunnings, Coles, Costco, Deloitte, Grocery, Hypermart, Metway, Retailers, Supermarkets, Target, Top rankings

Woolworths Vs Coles in new advertising war

July 23, 2012 by Reporter Leave a Comment

Woolworths have stepped up the advertising ware to get new customers with a new catchy and cute advertisement featuring  a nice oldies song depicting the fresh food people of Woolworth to rival the chef ads from Coles  doing the rounds.

Australia’s retailers are spending  up big to get the attention of the consumers with catchy new ads  as coles have increased their take from the retail grocery market in recent years.

coles-vs-woolworths-marketing- advertising

Woolworths new catchy Advertisement steps up the retail advertising war ( free Song)

Download Free  the woolworths song.. Monday .. Tuesday (6.5mb)

Melbourne singer Gossling, who had a hit with guest vocals on 360’s Boys Like You, has recorded the soundtrack to the major new Woolworths campaign.

 

A presentation featuring ‘The Voice’s Emma Louise Birdsall performing the new Woolworths song A special presentation featuring ‘The Voice’s Emma Louise Birdsall performing the new Woolworths song

Listen to Emma Louise Birdsall’s performance here.

Here is the original song

The Woolworths  song `Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday – I Love You’ was originally recorded in the late 1940’s by the Big Band vocalist Kitty Kallen with Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Orchestra.

Woolworths slogan has been updated from “the fresh food people” to “Australia’s fresh food people”.

The price fight Coles started last year when it cut the price of its house-brand milk by 33 per cent quickly became an all-out competition between the supermarket giants bringing the consumersbetter prices for many products , but sparking uproar in their grocery suppliers.

Coles has launched an aggressive advertising campaign in the past six months, and is reported to be outspending Woolworths by two to one by also including celebrity chef Curtis stone in their Advertisements

Coles new Single and advertisement – Down Down prices are down

Cole’s has hit back with a a new full length advertisement video by  Status Quo. Watch video here   http://downdown.coles.com.au/video/ .  Down Down, Prices are Down is sung by  Status Quo in thier extended tv commercial. thier previous advertisement also featured 64-year-old Vietnam vet, Rowe singing a reworked version of his 1965 hit, a cover of Shakin’ All Over. Coles even got thier new music store @ https://www.colesmusic.com.au/

A Coles spokesman said it was not surprised Woolworths has tried to emulate its success. “They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery so let’s just say that with some competitors’ recent activity, we are feeling very flattered,” senior manager consumer PR, Jon Church, said.

Filed Under: Australia, Business Tagged With: Bunnings, Coles, Retailers, Woolworths

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