Big Box Retail

One of the biggest retail deals in Australian corporate history was finalised last week, with the $32 billion merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare finally complete. The historic merger saw Sigma – a publicly …

What will Australia be like in 2078? Robot politicians? Virtual working from home? Uber teleporting? No matter what it is, Bunnings reckons it will be a big part of it.

A site occupied by one of Australia’s largest auto parts and car accessories retailers has been snapped up within days of its investors deciding to sell.

In the last 12 months, Bunnings has opened new stores in Wonthaggi (VIC) and Noarlunga (SA). It has also expanded four of its existing stores including North Penrith and Lismore (NSW), Coburg (VIC) and Claremont …

From the moment hardware chain Masters opened its doors, it drained cash. Retail analysts say it was destined to fail from the beginning. It was designed to be the premium version of Bunnings, and so …

Private investors have been betting big on large format retail properties that are home to furniture, hardware and lifestyle brands amid Australia’s surging population growth and limited supply.   New CBRE research found that private …

A struggle to secure prime real estate could be keeping other players out of the supermarket sector, and it may be costing shoppers. More competition in the supermarket sector would lower grocery prices, but Australia’s …

A $20m property sale for the Broadmeadows Homemaker Centre will see the buyer collect $1.4m a year from tenants. And they weren’t the only ones after a piece of the once low-rent suburb.

An eight-figure deal has been nailed down for the inner-city hardware store to make it one of the suburb’s most-expensive properties. See what it sold for.