Wesfarmers

WESFARMERS’ WOES COULD BE AUS VENUE CO BOON

Posted on March 19th, 2018 by Clyde Mooney
The battle of the supermarket pub groups has taken another twist with Wesfarmers’ mooted plans to shed Coles from its portfolio, as Aus Venue Co looks to step up the value of its operations. Eleven years after buying and reviving

COLES BET ON POKIE REFORM WON’T COST ONE DOLLAR

Posted on February 22nd, 2017 by Clyde Mooney
Wesfarmers continues its rhetoric around poker machines, alluding to “other options” if it can’t get government or manufacturers to back its trial of $1 bet limits. Chief executive Richard Goyder told ABC's The Business Wesfarmers was pushing for poker machine

COLES CAUGHT IN $1 POKIES BET BLOOPER

Posted on December 21st, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Wesfarmers’ subsidiary Coles has found itself the meat in a $1 sandwich, between anti-gaming advocates pushing consideration of poker machine reform and the realities of a complex industry. The Australian Financial Review (AFR) opened a hornet’s nest with news that