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Coles Group and Microsoft have sealed a new five-year strategic partnership, with the companies to collaborate and co-innovate on a range of digital initiatives to “help Coles grow its sales and ecommerce capabilities, increase operational efficiency and enhance customer experiences”.

GUEST OPINION:  Throughout 2024, some of Australia’s biggest companies have been in the spotlight due to anti-competitive behaviour. Coles and Woolworths were called out for a sneaky pricing strategy. And in the aviation industry, Qantas is being urged to sell Jetstar in order to create a fairer and more accessible aviation industry.

The competition watchdog, the ACCC will conduct a series of public hearings from 7 to 22 November as part of its ongoing Supermarkets Inquiry.

The logistics management game is fraught with hurdles, and many of them are beyond the immediate control of companies moving their goods from A to B.

The ACCC has granted interim authorisation to allow the Australian Banking Association (ABA), banks and retailers to provide financial contributions to cash-in -transit business Armaguard.

GUEST OPINION: There’s a great line from President Bartlet in the West Wing that often pops into my head. He asked, “is it possible to be astonished, and at the same time, not surprised?” I still don’t know if there’s a word for it, but I had that exact feeling recently when I read that global telco capex had fallen by $12 billion in 2023.

Australian technology company PMT Security has named three new executive hires to its roster.

felix mobile, a mobile brand under TPG Telecom, has commissioned new national research revealing that 83% of Australians believe it is important to choose more environmentally sustainable products.

Chloe Rees has joined human capital management consultancy Smart WFM as its head of customer success.

A new scam targeting customers of loyalty points programs with large, well-known Australian companies has been detected by the National Anti-Scam Centre.

Boost Mobile says its mission is to spend every day fighting for value for Aussie customers, and with its partnership with Coles Supermarkets, you can get an iPhone for less than $200 while stocks last.

Australian massive Internet of Things (IoT) company Thinxtra has launched its inaugural Partner Program, which offers partners joint strategic business planning, training and enablement workshops to identify and convert IoT opportunities, demand generation and account mapping, sales tools and ongoing pre- and post-sales support.

Officeworks has grown over 28 years and its 9000-strong workforce has grown by one more with the appointment of Nikala Busse as the company's first-ever Chief Information Officer (CIO).

Major supermarket retailers will form part of a Soft Plastics Taskforce to explore solutions to address the immediate effects of REDcycle suspending its return-to-store soft plastics recovery program, following a conditional ACCC interim authorisation.

Digital acceleration and agile development specialist Endava and Melbourne-based consultancy Lexicon have merged.

Automation technology provider Elenium Automation has appointed 20-year veteran senior finance executive Michelle Wright as chief financial officer to its Melbourne-based leadership team.

Retailer Coles has introduced its first electric truck for deliveries, with supply chain leader Linfox Logistics being the provider. This brings to six the number of such trucks provided by Linfox to its customers.

Retailer Coles Liquor has partnered with retail optimisation software provider RELEX Solutions to implement its Living Retail platform across its 931 Australian stores.

Coles, one of Australia's two big supermarket chains, says it will offer delivery of some 250 grocery items by drone in some suburbs of Canberra.

GUEST RESEARCH: Strategic research and consulting agency, Fifth Dimension, has released the results of its worldwide research into sustainability and what consumers want governments and companies to do about it.