Home Furnishings: Retail Still Reigns

Household goods retailing fell slightly, by 0.2% in September 2018, according to ABS figures recently released. Furniture sales, however, were unchanged. Department store sales fell by 0.1% in the same month. In earlier data for the 12 months to April 2018, retail...

Building Better Businesses: Franchises

We are seeing more and more franchises in Australia. According to statistics provided by Griffith University’s Asia-Pacific Centre for Franchising Excellence and the Franchise Council of Australia, there are now 1 120 franchise brands operating in this country....