Woolworths Group has reported its Q1 2025 sales results and trading update, revealing a 4.5% increase in group sales to $18 billion, or 3.3% excluding Petstock, even as the cost-of-living continues to bite.
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Salesforce, Adobe and Braze lead in Gartner’s Multichannel Marketing Hubs rankings
Salesforce, Adobe and Braze have topped the latest Gartner report into Multichannel Marketing Hubs, making it into the top quadrant for both their leadership and well as visionary approach to their respective platforms.
Spotify and Afterpay unveil ‘Gift Generator’ to personalise shopping experience fuelled by music intelligence
Spotify has launched its largest-ever Afterpay partnership, introducing the ‘Gift Generator’ through Spotify’s ‘The Stage’ format to leverage data for personalised gift ideas.
Data paralysis, short-termism, lack of commerciality stopping marketers from making decisions, says Australian Marketing Institute CPM Award winner
This year’s winner of the Australian Marketing Institute’s Certified Practising Marketer award, Paper + Spark’s Paul Everson, is in plenty of conversations right now, but reports a market afraid to commit to decisions as socio-economic uncertainty and short-termism persist. It’s not helping many marketers are either struggling to draw insights from data, or lack commercial nous to connect the dots to the business bottom line, he says – a big reason why skills development programs like Certified Practising Marketer are so critical to the industry. But with the core fundamentals of marketing as solid as ever – even with more channels and sophisticated terminology at our disposal – this experienced agency leader, marketing industry mentor and Uni lecturer is keen to see the industry embrace big M marketing with more confidence.
Mosaic Brands brings in administrator and receiver after failing to secure support for restructure, ACCC resolution
Mosaic Brands, owner of budget clothing brands including Noni B, Millers, Katies and Rivers, has gone into administration and brought in the receivers after failing to secure support for a restructure from several investors and a resolution with the ACCC on alleged breaches of Australian Consumer Law.
New retail giant emerges: Myer and Apparel Brands to unite
After months of discussions, Myer and Premier Brands are going ahead with their merger agreement, combining the Myer apparel portfolio with Premier’s Apparel Brands portfolio including Just Jeans, Jay Jays, Portmans, Dotti and Jacqui E.
Bega Group rides ‘Oomph’ wave with Dairy Farmers’ fresh masterbrand campaign
Bega and its recently appointed agency The Royals, have unveiled the first masterbrand campaign for Bega Group’s flagship brand, Dairy Farmers. The campaign, themed around the word ‘Oomph’, seeks to encapsulate the essence of what Dairy Farmers delivers to Australians daily.
Stan CMO Diana Ilinkovski steps down after decade-long tenure
Stan CMO Diana Ilinkovski has resigned from the post after nearly a decade with the streaming services player.
MYOB uses its CDP to turbocharge experimentation and delivers a 20% re-engagement rate on abandoned carts
Australian accounting software powerhouse MYOB was a pioneer in the use of customer data platforms (CDPs) in Australia. Even a decade later, the technology is still delivering new and impressive benefits, and equipping the brand for a new stage of technology innovation: Personalisation at scale.
AI, data unification and loyalty programs top Forrester 2025 B2C marketing and CX trends predictions
A struggle for consumer brand loyalty due to slowing economic growth across APAC along with the displacement of 100,000 global frontline agents thanks to Gen AI are among Forrester’s top predictions for B2C marketing and CX in 2025.