News

22 Apr 2013

The NAB Charitable Giving Index grew by 2.6% (12-month average) in February 2013 – only slightly faster than inflation – down from 8.3% in the same period one year earlier. There was, however, wide variance in performance by individual charity sub-groups. Health & Disability charities and Animals & Environment charities reported faster growth relative to the previous year, but there was a big pullback in giving to Humanitarian Services charities.

8 Apr 2013

Big Data – the term is everywhere, but is it one of the next big over-hyped marketing themes in the grand tradition of customer relationship management and social media? Telstra’s chief marketing officer, Mark Buckman, certainly thinks not. Nor does UBank’s general manager, Alex Twigg. And a host of firms lining up to offer their Big Data capabilities – many often bursting with actuaries and mathematicians – are clearly hitching themselves to the trend.

4 Mar 2013

A snapshot of the key findings in latest NAB Online Retail Sales Index reveals that online continues to shape the Australian marketplace. Online retail sales rose to an estimated A$13 billion in the year to January 2013 and is now equivalent to 5.8% of traditional bricks and mortar sales (excluding food).

29 Nov 2012

Australia’s online retail sales are continuing to climb, up to A$12.3 billion in the year ended October 2012, but for now the share of total spending is still modest, at around 5.6%. The rate of growth in online sales has strengthened considerably over the last six months, following something of a slowdown in the early part of 2012, with growth of around 26% year-on-year in October, compared with 2.2% for traditional retailing in September. Domestic retailers have driven the growth in online sales over recent months, with international retailers lagging a little behind.