Retail

•Online sales grew 5.3% to $552 million, demonstrating continued digital channel momentum.

Koala Company (ASX:KOA) is a rare thing on the local market: a genuinely well-known consumerBrandthat most Australians have encountered, now accessible to investors on the ASX. Founded in 2015 and run from what it calls the Treehouse in Sydney, Koala built its name selling …

Adore Beauty Group has appointed Kylie Archer as chief financial officer permanently, following her interim appointment in late July 2026. Archer previously worked at Nick Scali, Roberts Co, Winning Group and Seafolly.

Reported on 26 August, the FY26 numbers were subdued. Domestic network sales fell 3.1% to $489.5 million, same-store sales slipped 0.7%, and underlying EBITDA dropped 31.4% to $20.3 million. Executive Chairman Peter George acknowledged that retail trading conditions remained challenging through the year, with …

Group revenue rose 0.7% to $19.6 billion, a figure that looks modest until it is stripped of the well-flagged decline in tobacco sales, on which basis revenue grew 3.8%. Tobacco has been a structural drag across the sector as smoking rates fall and illicit …

Against a difficult backdrop, Nick Scali delivered profit growth driven by margins rather than a spending recovery, while the UK turnaround finally showed tangible progress.

The market's attention was split between a solid underlying performance and a heavy statutory loss, a divergence that defines the current AdairsInvestmentcase.