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Baby Bunting marks record sales, begins New Zealand foray

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million (with same-store sales up by 5 per cent) while statutory net profit attributable to shareholders rose 14.6 “We continued to grow our market share at the same time as we delivered very strong gross profit growth. The baby goods retailer says sales grew 8.3 per cent to $507.3 per cent to $19.5

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How Temple & Webster plans to use AI, private labels to reach $1b in sales

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Online furniture and homewares retailer Temple & Webster has partially recovered from the significant losses that occurred during the first half of the 2023 financial year, and is focusing on its private labels, AI technology and value proposition to drive growth and market share over the next three to five years.

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Woolworths declares $2bn share buyback as profit hits $2.07bn

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per cent lift in net profit to $2.07 Retail expert and QUT professor of marketing Gary Mortimer said Woolworths is ahead of rival Coles on a number of fronts this year. billion, impacted by low market growth in the first half and the restrictive lockdown in H2, and EBIT dropped 4.6 per cent to $39.2 per cent to $7.1