Coles Group Ltd
COL
Company Profile
Business description
Coles is one of Australia's largest retailers, operating the second-largest supermarket chain behind market leader Woolworths, and the country's second-largest liquor chain. The group has an extensive store network of over 1,800 stores, and roughly 80% of Australians live within a 10-minute drive from a Coles store. The retailer employs some 120,000 people, who process some 20 million individual customer transactions a week. This compares with Woolworths processing about 30 million customer transactions per week from Australia's population of 27 million.
Contact
800-838 Toorak Road
Hawthorn East
MelbourneVIC3123
AUST: +61 398295111
Sector
Consumer Defensive
Stock type
Defensive
Industry
Grocery Stores
Fiscal Year End
Employees
115,000
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