From mozzarella made on the premises to a cooking school, bookstore and seven restaurants, the sprawling Eataly food emporium has opened its doors in New York to spread its basic message: "eat healthy."  Located at the corner of Fifth Avenue...

A fraud suspect might not be easy to pick out of a crowd – or from a rap sheet.  The average fraud perpetrator has no prior fraud charges or convictions, according to new US research by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACF...

The GPT Group is launching a Food Recovery Program at its Rouse Hill Town Centre in northwest Sydney tomorrow - a pilot for potential roll-out in its other shopping centres.  The GPT Food Recovery Program is being kick started with a five-ye...

Category winners for the industry’s top honour – Oracle Australian Retailer of the Year 2010 - have been announced by the Australian Retailers Association (ARA).  The awards are part of the only national retail awards program sho...

Children's clothing retailer Just Kids has been ordered to pay competitor Pumpkin Patch NZ$20,000 over a dispute involving a retail site and alleged misuse of confidential information.  Pumpkin Patch had sought damages of more than $90,000 a...

The ROSS system is a web-based employee rostering system ideal for retail businesses, including restaurants, hotels and supermarkets.ROSS helps managers create cost-efficient rosters by matching shifts to sales demand hour-by-hour using an accurate c...

Enterprise solution provider, Leopard Systems, has sealed a new retail partnership with Wincor Nixdorf, one of the world’s largest providers of IT solutions to retailers and retail banks.  A new business has been created - Leopard Ente...

Myer executives have met Hobart City Council aldermen to discuss the future of the retail chain's empty CBD site.  The Hobart flagship Myer store on Liverpool Street burnt down in a massive blaze nearly three years ago. Myer chief executi...

Natural products specialist Healthzone Limited has announced a 47.1 per cent increase in consolidated net profit after tax to $4.39 million.  Sales revenues increased by 8.4 per cent to $112.69 million compared to $103.93 million for the pre...

Parenting shop Mothercare will open its fourth Australian store on September 18 - in Melbourne's Highpoint.  The Highpoint store will cover 1300 sqm of space and offer a broad product range across all categories, along with initiatives such ...

Three men have been charged in Sydney following a joint investigation into the alleged importation of counterfeit cigarettes.  Investigations were conducted under the State Crime Command’s Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad’s S...

New retail industry trends will be examined at a shopper marketing research findings workshop in Sydney on September 22.  The first Popai/ShopAbility Shopper Marketing Industry Benchmark Survey, supported by TorchMedia, was undertaken in res...

The ABS July Retail Trade figures released Tuesday were encouraging "but not good enough to mean retailers were out of the woods just yet," the Australian Retailers Association says.  Executive director Russell Zimmerman said retailers faced...

Diversified property trust the GPT Group (GPT) has today announced an organisational restructure which includes a number of changes to its senior executive team. At the interim results announced last Tuesday, CEO Michael Cameron talked about ensur...

An Australian company is offering retailers and other businesses in-house music that's free of expensive royalty charges.  Messaging company Messages On Hold will launch The Groove Gallery in Melbourne on Thursday, September 2. The service i...