A year and a half ago,the company placed its largest-ever fan gear order for a Women’s World Cup. Rebel has sold 60,000 Matildas jerseys so far.
New “fur babies” and sprucing up the car have also helped underpin sales for retailers that make up the big box-style homemaker centres.
The Fair Work Ombusdman will allege the company engaged in serious contraventions of the Fair Work Act when it underpaid staff starting in 2017.
Super Retail has gone from humble beginnings – a car parts by mail order business – to a retail conglomerate selling everything from basketballs to puffer jackets.
The chief executive of Super Retail Group has warned a potential new wave of COVID infections could devastate the world’s already battered supply chains.
Serious congestion in global supply chains has caused massive delays on shipping new consumer goods into Australia,prompting Christmas shopping warnings.
The JobKeeper program ends on March 28. The Morrison government is considering direct cash assistance to help tourist businesses survive the change.
Some companies have returned JobKeeper payments which they did not need but others are failing the test of corporate social responsibility.
Corporate governance experts are urging more big companies to repay funds received through JobKeeper,warning taxpayers will bear the cost for decades.
A small number of companies such as Solomon Lew's Premier Investments have received $40m in taxpayer subsidies while paying large bonuses and dividends to top executives.
Customers have kept spending at brands including BCF and Rebel throughout the pandemic.