Posts tagged "consumer confidence"

Melbourne retailer Design A Space will close its stores next month, calling time on a retail model which allowed rural and regional small businesses the chance to stock their products in the city centre.

A gloomy economic outlook and worsening consumer sentiment have not dampened optimism at payments unicorn Zeller, which claims a significant uptick in big business users is propelling its revenue growth.

Australian consumer confidence has fallen to levels not seen since the dawn of COVID-19 lockdowns and the depths of Global Financial Crisis despair, Westpac says.

Delivr, a Ballarat-based competitor to platforms like Uber Eats and Deliveroo, has collapsed into liquidation.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said while some Australian exporters may benefit from the higher prices, "Australian consumers will not".

The government has pumped tens of billions of dollars into the economy, but households are shoving much of it under their mattresses.

Red tape doesn't stifle innovation, it supports inventing with integrity and boosts consumer confidence in new, emerging products, writes Kristy Chong.

The ACCC has called for sweeping reform of the national electricity market to lower power prices and restore confidence for consumers and small businesses.

Consumer confidence has jumped to a four-year high, but experts say the businesses that stand to win from these figures will be aware the si…

By Viet Nguyen, University of Melbourne

Consumers are key players in the economy, they purchase goods and services, supply labour and ma…

More than a third of Australian small and medium businesses are run by people under the age of 35 and for a large group of these entrepreneu…

  Law firm Maurice Blackburn has appealed to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to intervene in the underpayment scandal that has engulfed con…