Bunnings

Wesfarmers has bought the online retailer Catch Group for $230 million, and hopes to use the pioneering Australian company’s e-commerce prowess to help guide its department stores Kmart and [...]

Last year’s massive portfolio reshaping by new chief executive Rob Scott, the centrepiece of which was the demerger of Coles, always meant Wesfarmers’ shareholders would be far more exposed to [...]

Bunnings is the new Coles – its earnings and its outlook is the now Wesfarmers’ major performance driver. The trouble is Bunnings sales growth looks to be slowing with fourth quarter sales [...]

Before consigning its costly unsuccessful foray into Britain’s home improvement sector to a footnote in Wesfarmers’ largely illustrious history it is worth trying to understand how it got it so [...]

Bunnings’ disastrous expansion into the United Kingdom and Ireland has veered further off course, as a severe cold weather snap contributed to a deeper decline in sales during the March [...]