December 2007

Coles is one of the two national supermarkets in Australia. Last week, their Christmas catalogue arrived at our door, this normally goes straight in the bin, but this one caught my eye. Instead of the boring list of products and prices, the brochure contained recipes with a checklist of what you needed to purchase. I […]

By John Stanley We all need hero’s in our life, for me I would include Nelson Mandela and Al Gore in my list, but we would all select different people to put on personal list. The real challenge is that in your local community are you on the list of your consumers and neighbours. I

Check this out! A new form of in-store marketing lets advertisers place their messages right between shoppers’ hands, on shopping cart handles that have been modified by Modstream. Messages are wirelessly streamed to a small screen in a hard plastic case that replaces the standard shopping cart handle. Advertisers and retailers log on to modstream.com

Heightened health awareness is prompting an overwhelming majority of Australians to purchase organic products. A new study released by The Nielsen Company, exclusively to Wholly Organic, revealed the level of consumer acceptance of organic options is now at its highest. Conducted twice-a-year among 26,486 internet users in 47 markets including 500 Australian consumers, the Nielsen

We all realise that Christmas is the busiest time of year for retailers, it was therefore interesting Phil Ruthven’s article in the latest edition of the Qantas Magazine that highlighted how the Australian consumer was the big spender. Australians spend more in December than in any other month of the year, but we do keep

How do you combine tourism and retailing, that’s the real challenge? I love the idea of ‘Chic in the City’ as a marketing concept in combining retailing as part of the tourism experience. This article, in The Perth Sunday Times, shows what can be done in Sydney. What could you do in your town? SYDNEY

This article I spotted in this months edition of Commercial Horticultre. A new and already popular attraction at the Auckland Botanic Gardens in the Stoneleigh Sculpture Trail, an exhibition of 27 sculptures form many of New Zealand’s top artists. Opening the sculpture trail on Saturday 3 November, the Prime Minister Helen Clark said, “The role