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A number of recent surveys into the retail sector and consumer trends have produced conflicting results. The Australian Bureau of Statistics retail trade figures for December 2006 showed an...
Derek Dryden, president of the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA), is expecting a ‘fantastic Christmas' for booksellers, despite today's decision by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to ...
Book and newspaper sales up 20.5% on 2007Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures for September indicate books are bucking the flat national retail trend. While retail trade figures for the Septe...
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced it is partnering with the University of Melbourne Book Industry Study and Thorpe-Bowker to undertake ‘an online survey of publishi...
New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicate that while overall retail sales rose in August, sales in many areas declined. ‘Retail sales rose 0.6% in August, seasonally ad...
ACCC releases details on ARW/Borders decisionThe Australian Consumer and Competition Commission has now released a detailed report on its decision not to oppose any bid for Borders' Australian stores ...
While retail figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show slight growth has continued from July into August, the result of a National Australia Bank (NAB) business confidence sur...