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QANTAS Wine List Overhaul – Neil Perry’s Influence Sees 40% New Wines Added to the Sky

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By Drew Lambert It’s the biggest indicator yet that Neil Perry’s QANTAS team of sommeliers mean business; QANTAS revealed exclusively to The Wine Wankers last week that 40% of the 270 wines chosen for the airline’s new wine list have never flown in First or Business class before. Oenophile fliers - those who choose their airlines according to the wines being served - will no doubt be salivating at the ...

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How Important are ‘Brands’ to the Retailer Today?

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From Mal Higgs, Project Manager – ALSA Retail Insights. Many retailers have worked out that they can make a great deal more profit margin selling private label products – especially wine. It is not uncommon to hear stories of a four or five percent increase in gross profit margin across the entire wine category just by selling four or five dozen private label wines in a week. Of course, there is ...

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How the Wine Equalisation Tax Works

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Column By George Rochios from LBW & Partners – Chartered Accountants & Business Advisers When the goods and services tax was introduced to the Australian tax landscape in 2000, there was a lot of angst about the negative effect on the cost of living that this blanket 10 per cent impost would have. A glimmer of consolation was that pulling a cork out of a wine bottle might hopefully be ...

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Building the Retailer and Supplier Brand

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By Nancy Truscott, Director of Grocery & Liquor Programs at Shopper Tracker Australia Shopper seems to be the new ‘it’ word as companies start to recognise the importance of understanding the person who is making the decision on whether to buy or not. Investment in shopper marketing has more than doubled in most companies in the last five years. Suppliers are seeing the benefits of this investment through savings in ...

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New Kids on the Block

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Much has been written about the main white varieties and, to a lesser extent, about the better known alternative whites like verdelho, marsanne and fiano. But there is also a plethora of lesser-known varieties. Meet the kids.

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