The National Retail Association's Future Leaders Lunch this year was held at the Cucino Vivo restaurant at the Star...
The National Retail Association's Future Leaders Lunch this year was held at the Cucino Vivo restaurant at the Star Gold Coast on 16 September and welcomed all the nominees across the categories of the 2022 HR of the Year, Store Manager of the Year, and Young Retailer of the...
The National Retail Association (NRA) unveiled Australia’s most exceptional retailers across all levels and categories of the industry at...
The National Retail Association (NRA) unveiled Australia’s most exceptional retailers across all levels and categories of the industry at its National Retail Awards held last Friday. Coming together for the first time since 2019, retailers across the country gathered at the Gold Coast for a gala event to celebrate the...
Retailers are continuing to call for the Albanese Government to lower expenses for small and medium-sized businesses by mandating...
Retailers are continuing to call for the Albanese Government to lower expenses for small and medium-sized businesses by mandating least-cost routing. The latest Retail Payment data for July released by the Reserve Bank showed a 27.3 percent increase in total card payments year on year, of which the payment fees,...
Following the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that 22 September 2022 shall...
Following the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that 22 September 2022 shall be declared a National Public Holiday. In announcing the National Day of Mourning, Prime Minister Albanese said: “I have asked Premiers and Chief Ministers that Thursday 22 September 2022 be declared...
Message from NRA Chairman, Tim Schaafsma This Friday, our long-serving CEO Dominique Lamb will finish her tenure at the NRA. ...
Message from NRA Chairman, Tim Schaafsma This Friday, our long-serving CEO Dominique Lamb will finish her tenure at the NRA. As I mentioned in my communication to members last week, Dominique has been the CEO of the organisation for seven years, and was the Director of NRA Legal for two...
Sending through your expressions of interest through an online job board may become a thing of the past in...
Sending through your expressions of interest through an online job board may become a thing of the past in the retail industry as Australia is seeing one of its tightest jobs markets in nearly 50 years With the unemployment rate at a record low of 3.5%, dozens of retailers are...
The National Retail Association welcomes the Victorian Government’s release of educational resources to help SMEs better understand how they...
The National Retail Association welcomes the Victorian Government’s release of educational resources to help SMEs better understand how they can close the gender pay gap. The materials developed by Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission (VEOHRC) give the state the opportunity to create large-scale change from the ground up. The...
The National Measurement Institute (NMI) undertakes major yearly compliance programs across industry sectors to make sure systems, such as...
The National Measurement Institute (NMI) undertakes major yearly compliance programs across industry sectors to make sure systems, such as shop scales, fuel dispensers, and utility meters, are reliable and deliver fair measure. The program aims to ensure that measuring instruments are fit-for-purpose, measurements are made correctly and representations about measurements...
Peak industry body the National Retail Association (NRA) has welcomed the South Australian government’s move to implement tougher penalties...
Peak industry body the National Retail Association (NRA) has welcomed the South Australian government’s move to implement tougher penalties for people who abuse retail workers, coming into effect today. Chief Executive Dominique Lamb said the NRA supports all efforts to tackle the abuse of retail workers. “South Australia’s decision to inflict...
High failure rates among Australian businesses should be a red flag to the Federal Government to tread carefully with...
High failure rates among Australian businesses should be a red flag to the Federal Government to tread carefully with policy reforms, the nation’s retailers have warned. Responding to ABS figures reports of a 12.7 per cent failure rate in the nation’s businesses last financial year, National Retail Association CEO Dominique...
The National Retail Association (NRA) has welcomed a plan to provide small businesses with the digital training tools that...
The National Retail Association (NRA) has welcomed a plan to provide small businesses with the digital training tools that could help them from going under. Under draft Federal legislation, small Australian businesses will qualify for tax incentives to train employees in technology skills until June 30, 2024. “It’s good to see...
Active Super has launched Active Super Booster, a reward program allows members to boost their super balances when shopping...
Active Super has launched Active Super Booster, a reward program allows members to boost their super balances when shopping instore and online at more than 300 retail partners across 2,000 locations around Australia. With the new ‘set and forget’ reward program, once members link their debit or credit card(s), a...
The Palaszczuk Government is supporting the recovery of small and medium-sized businesses by injecting a $300 million boost from...
The Palaszczuk Government is supporting the recovery of small and medium-sized businesses by injecting a $300 million boost from Buy Queensland procurement initiative. The National Retail Association welcomes Queensland’s Government’s decision to lift the Buy Queensland small and medium business procurement target from 25 percent to 30 percent, resulting in...
We’ve seen multiple examples in the media today of the pressures on small businesses, from soaring wage costs to...
We’ve seen multiple examples in the media today of the pressures on small businesses, from soaring wage costs to supply chain pressures. The National Retail Association warns that these pressures are simply unsustainable. We welcome the suggestion from the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, Andrew Leigh, that the...
ABS statistics show that the seasonally adjusted Wage Price Index (WPI) rose 0.7% in the June quarter bringing the...
ABS statistics show that the seasonally adjusted Wage Price Index (WPI) rose 0.7% in the June quarter bringing the WPI for the year to 2.6% which marks progress but still falls well short of the inflation rate at 6.1%. Chief Executive Officer, Dominique Lamb said that while this is a...
The National Retail Association has backed the Palaszczuk Government’s trading hours reforms and thanked the Government for listening to...
The National Retail Association has backed the Palaszczuk Government’s trading hours reforms and thanked the Government for listening to the views of all businesses rather than a small group of vested interests. Representing both large and small businesses across the state, the NRA said the new laws offered more flexible...