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Woolworths Group in Australia recognized total food sales of around ** billion Australian dollars in financial year 2024. This represented an increase from the previous year and a continuing upward trend since 2015. Headquartered in New South Wales, Australia, Woolworths Group is an Australian retail and finance company known for its operation of Woolworths supermarkets across Australia and New Zealand, as well as BIG W department stores. Australia’s supermarket landscape Woolworths, Coles, Aldi, and Metcash (IGA) dominate Australia’s grocery retail market, with Woolworths holding a market share of around ** percent. Its primary competitor, Coles Group, followed with a market share of around ** percent. Over the past decade, the annual revenue of supermarkets and grocery stores in Australia has witnessed steady growth, with the industry remaining resilient throughout the pandemic. Are food prices spiraling out of control? Grocery price inflation has been a key topic of contention over the past few years in Australia, with almost ** percent of households viewing grocery product prices as unfair in a 2024 survey. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) of grocery products in Australia rose across most categories in the year to March 2025, with fruit and vegetables seeing an annual growth of *** percent. To save money, many grocery shoppers nationwide hunt for deals and switch between different supermarkets to buy certain products. Nonetheless, it cannot all be left down to the consumers. From January 2024 to March 2025, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) conducted an inquiry into the country’s supermarket sector to examine pricing and competitive practices among major retailers, including Woolworths, Coles, and Aldi, to ensure Australians are paying fair prices for groceries. The profit margins of Woolworths and Coles increased in 2024 despite cost-of-living pressures, with some consumers viewing this as evidence of inflationary profiteering. Alongside the ACCC inquiry, the government planned to provide funding to consumer advocacy group CHOICE to create price transparency and comparison reports to provide detailed information to customers to help them save money amid excessive price increases.

Woolworths Group recognized a net profit after tax (NPAT) of **** billion Australian dollars in the 2024 financial year. This represented a marginal decline from the previous year, in which an NPAT of just over **** billion Australian dollars was recorded. The highest NPAT recorded within the given period was in 2015. Woolworths Group in Australia Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Woolworths Group is Australia’s largest supermarket retailer and one of the country’s top 20 leading companies by market cap. The company holds the largest share of the grocery retail market in Australia, followed by supermarket rival Coles Group. Woolworths Group’s food sales in Australia witnessed a year-on-year increase from 2016 to 2024, with over ** billion Australian dollars in sales in 2024. Grocery shopping in Australia As of 2024, New South Wales was home to the highest number of operating supermarkets and grocery stores in Australia, followed by Victoria. Following year-on-year growth over the past decade, the annual revenue of supermarkets and grocery stores peaked in 2024. Nonetheless, due to grocery price inflation, consumers are trying to cut back on grocery spending by switching to cheaper brands and shopping during sales. Grocery expenses were named as one of the most significant contributors to cost of living pressures among consumers across the country.

Woolworths reported AUD9.78B in Gross Profit on Sales for its fiscal semester ending in January of 2025. Data for Woolworths | WOW - Gross Profit On Sales including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last August in 2025.

Woolworths Holdings price/book ratio from 2019 to 2024. Price/book ratio can be defined as

Woolworths reported AUD39.07B in Market Capitalization this August of 2025, considering the latest stock price and the number of outstanding shares.Data for Woolworths | WOW - Market Capitalization including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last August in 2025.

Cost of living pressures weigh on consumers and have flow-on effects across the Australian business landscape, as inflation continues to affect Australian supermarkets.

As of May 2025, New South Wales was home to the highest number of Woolworths Supermarkets locations in Australia, with around *** stores. In total, almost ***** Woolworths grocery stores were in operation across Australia. Woolworths: Australia’s grocery retail market leader Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Woolworths Group holds the largest share of Australia’s grocery retail market, followed by supermarket rival Coles Group, with the top two competitors holding a market share of over ** percent. German supermarket chain Aldi and Metcash, which operates Independent Grocers of Australia (IGA) and Foodland, are the next largest players. Woolworths’ food sales in Australia have trended upward over the past decade, exceeding ** billion Australian dollars in the 2024 financial year. The grocery giant has also enjoyed a growing profit margin over the past years, despite household budgets tightening due to rising grocery bills reflected in the country’s growing food and non-alcoholic beverages CPI. Grocery prices: how are Australian consumers trying to make savings? Price increases were observed across almost all grocery product categories in Australia in the year to March 2025, with fruit and vegetables seeing an annual increase of around *** percent. With the cost of groceries becoming a more prevalent concern in recent years, consumers are employing various strategies to save money on grocery products. These money-saving tactics include cutting back on non-essentials, reducing overall spending, switching to cheaper brands, and shopping across multiple stores.

Woolworths reported AUD5.65B in Ordinary Share Capital for its fiscal semester ending in January of 2025. Data for Woolworths | WOW - Ordinary Share Capital including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last August in 2025.

Woolworths New Zealand recognized total sales from food of around **** billion New Zealand dollars in the year ended June 2024, representing a slight rise from the previous year, and a continued year-on-year increase in revenue since 2021. Woolworths New Zealand operates under the multinational Australian retail company Woolworths Group Limited, known for its operation of Woolworths Supermarkets across Australia and New Zealand. The New Zealand subsidiaries of the company include Woolworths (formerly known as Countdown), FreshChoice, and SuperValue. Which retailers does Woolworths New Zealand compete with? Alongside Foodstuffs New Zealand, Woolworths New Zealand is part of the country’s grocery market duopoly. Foodstuffs, which operates as two separate entities, Foodstuffs North Island and Foodstuffs South Island, holds the largest market share, followed by Woolworths, and The Warehouse. In the 2024 financial year, Foodstuffs North Island generated a revenue of around *** billion New Zealand dollars, with its South Island counterpart recording over *** billion New Zealand dollars in revenue that same year. Across the leading brands owned by the top three supermarkets, Four Square, a Foodstuffs brand, had the highest number of supermarket locations across the country in 2024, followed by the Woolworths chain and New World. Consumer sentiment toward New Zealand’s grocery retailers Nevertheless, despite their mounting financial success, these two grocery giants have come under scrutiny recently by the Grocery Commission and consumers alike due to a lack of competition within the country’s supermarket sector alongside rising food prices. In August 2024, Foodstuffs North Island was fined **** million New Zealand dollars by the Wellington High Court for anti-competitive land covenants. To stimulate competition within the sector, clearer grocery codes and unit pricing regulations have been established, with the aim of shifting some power to new players, retailers with smaller market shares such as The Warehouse Group, and other grocery businesses.

Woolworths reported ZAR45.43B in Market Capitalization this August of 2025, considering the latest stock price and the number of outstanding shares.Data for Woolworths | WHL - Market Capitalization including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last August in 2025.

Woolworths reported AUD26.15B in Cost of Sales for its fiscal semester ending in January of 2025. Data for Woolworths | WOW - Cost Of Sales including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last August in 2025.

Woolworths Group held the largest share of the grocery retail market in Australia as of May 2024, with a share of ** percent. Woolworths' major competitor, Coles Group, came in second with a little over a quarter of the market share. Aldi and IGA remain behind their competitors, with shares of less than ** percent of the market. Growth of online grocery shopping in Australia While physical stores remain the most prevalent grocery shopping channel among Australians, online grocery shopping has gained momentum across Australia recently as consumers and supermarket retailers were forced to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. Woolworths and Coles dominate Australia’s online grocery sales, with e-commerce platform Amazon, encompassing Amazon Fresh and Amazon Pantry, the next largest competitor. Grocery price inflation in Australia Price rises continue to be witnessed across many grocery product categories in Australia, with fruit and vegetables accounting for the largest annual price increase in the year to March 2025. As a result of rising grocery costs, an increasing number of Australian households cite grocery expenses as a major source of stress. To lessen the impact of cost-of-living pressures, many shoppers are adopting strategies to reduce their grocery bills, such as cutting back on non-essentials, switching to cheaper brands, shopping across various stores, and using coupons when shopping.

Woolworths reported AUD34.48B in Operating Expenses for its fiscal semester ending in January of 2025. Data for Woolworths | WOW - Operating Expenses including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last August in 2025.

Woolworths reported AUD2.96B in EBITDA for its fiscal semester ending in January of 2025. Data for Woolworths | WOW - Ebitda including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last August in 2025.

Overview \r \r In recent years, ABARES has undertaken research programs that focus on two key economic aspects of Australia's food exports: world food demand to 2050 and implications for Australia’s food exports; and the efficiency of Australia’s infrastructure and food export supply chains. To complement these research programs, this report examines trends and issues in Australia's food market with a focus on domestic food demand. \r \r Key Issues \r • The domestic market is important for Australia's food producers including farmers, food processors and food service providers. By value, around two-thirds of Australia’s food production is used in the domestic market. Food imports have become more important, particularly for processed food, but still account for a relatively low share of household food consumption (15 per cent in 2015-16). \r • Food is a major expenditure category for households in Australia-current housing costs, food and transport are consistently the three top expenditure categories (based on data from the 1990s and 2000s). The three top food expenditure categories are: meals out and fast foods; meat, fish and seafood; and fruit and vegetables. \r • Food expenditure per person tends to be higher, on average, for households with higher incomes - notably, the share of total food expenditure spent on meals out and fast foods is significantly higher for households with higher incomes. By contrast, the distribution of food expenditure is broadly similar across household groups based on net worth - that is, households with high net wealth spend relatively more on food in aggregate, but the shares spent on the main food categories are broadly similar. \r • The food industry supplies a broad range of food products and services in response to food demand in different segments of the domestic market. There is ongoing innovation by the food industry to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the food supply chain, including to enhance further Australia's high level of food security. For example, major food retailers have developed product lines to sell imperfect fruit and vegetables at lower prices (such as The Odd Bunch at Woolworths, and Imperfect Picks at Harris Farm Markets). Patterns of food expenditure indicate there are also likely to be ongoing economic opportunities to obtain a price premium for reliable food quality attributes. \r

This Australian and New Zealand food category cost dataset was created to inform diet and economic modelling for low and medium socioeconomic households in Australia and New Zealand. The dataset was created according to the INFORMAS protocol, which details the methods to systematically and consistently collect and analyse information on the price of foods, meals and affordability of diets in different countries globally. Food categories were informed by the Food Standards Australian New Zealand (FSANZ) AUSNUT (AUStralian Food and NUTrient Database) 2011-13 database, with additional food categories created to account for frequently consumed and culturally important foods.

Methods The dataset was created according to the INFORMAS protocol [1], which detailed the methods to collect and analyse information systematically and consistently on the price of foods, meals, and affordability of diets in different countries globally.

Cost data were collected from four supermarkets in each country: Australia and New Zealand. In Australia, two (Coles Merrylands and Woolworths Auburn) were located in a low and two (Coles Zetland and Woolworths Burwood) were located in a medium metropolitan socioeconomic area in New South Wales from 7-11th December 2020. In New Zealand, two (Countdown Hamilton Central and Pak ‘n Save Hamilton Lake) were located in a low and two (Countdown Rototuna North and Pak ‘n Save Rosa Birch Park) in a medium socioeconomic area in the North Island, from 16-18th December 2020.

Locations in Australia were selected based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD) [2]. The index ranks areas from most disadvantaged to most advantaged using a scale of 1 to 10. IRSAD quintile 1 was chosen to represent low socio-economic status and quintile 3 for medium SES socio-economic status. Locations in New Zealand were chosen using the 2018 NZ Index of Deprivation and statistical area 2 boundaries [3]. Low socio-economic areas were defined by deciles 8-10 and medium socio-economic areas by deciles 4-6. The supermarket locations were chosen according to accessibility to researchers. Data were collected by five trained researchers with qualifications in nutrition and dietetics and/or nutrition science.

All foods were aggregated into a reduced number of food categories informed by the Food Standards Australian New Zealand (FSANZ) AUSNUT (AUStralian Food and NUTrient Database) 2011-13 database, with additional food categories created to account for frequently consumed and culturally important foods. Nutrient data for each food category can therefore be linked to the Australian Food and Nutrient (AUSNUT) 2011-13 database [4] and NZ Food Composition Database (NZFCDB) [5] using the 8-digit codes provided for Australia and New Zealand, respectively.

Data were collected for three representative foods within each food category, based on criteria used in the INFORMAS protocol: (i) the lowest non-discounted price was chosen from the most commonly available product size, (ii) the produce was available nationally, (iii) fresh produce of poor quality was omitted. One sample was collected per representative food product per store, leading to a total of 12 food price samples for each food category. The exception was for the ‘breakfast cereal, unfortified, sugars ≤15g/100g’ food category in the NZ dataset, which included only four food price samples because only one representative product per supermarket was identified.

Variables in this dataset include: (i) food category and description, (ii) brand and name of representative food, (iii) product size, (iv) cost per product, and (v) 8-digit code to link product to nutrient composition data (AUSNUT and NZFCDB).

References

Vandevijvere, S.; Mackay, S.; Waterlander, W. INFORMAS Protocol: Food Prices Module [Internet]. Available online: https://auckland.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/INFORMAS_Protocol_Food_Prices_Module/5627440/1 (accessed on 25 October).
2071.0 - Census of Population and Housing: Reflecting Australia - Stories from the Census, 2016 Available online: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by Subject/2071.0~2016~Main Features~Socio-Economic Advantage and Disadvantage~123 (accessed on 10 December).
Socioeconomic Deprivation Indexes: NZDep and NZiDep, Department of Public Health. Available online: https://www.otago.ac.nz/wellington/departments/publichealth/research/hirp/otago020194.html#2018 (accessed on 10 December)
AUSNUT 2011-2013 food nutrient database. Available online: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science/monitoringnutrients/ausnut/ausnutdatafiles/Pages/foodnutrient.aspx (accessed on 15 November).
NZ Food Composition Data. Available online: https://www.foodcomposition.co.nz/ (accessed on 10 December)

Usage Notes The uploaded data includes an Excel spreadsheet where a separate worksheet is provided for the Australian food price database and New Zealand food price database, respectively. All cost data are presented to two decimal points, and the mean and standard deviation of each food category is presented. For some representative foods in NZ, the only NFCDB food code available was for a cooked product, whereas the product is purchased raw and cooked prior to eating, undergoing a change in weight between the raw and cooked versions. In these cases, a conversion factor was used to account for the weight difference between the raw and cooked versions, to ensure that nutrient information (on accessing from the NZFCDB) was accurate. This conversion factor was developed based on the weight differences between the cooked and raw versions, and checked for accuracy by comparing quantities of key nutrients in the cooked vs raw versions of the product.

Convenience stores have faced wavering traffic due to remote work, prompting a shift towards ready-made meals, drinks and self-scan technologies. Rising living costs have contributed to more cautious spending in recent years, leading many c-stores to pivot shelf assortments or quick-serve items. Despite modest price hikes that push revenue upwards at an annualised 1.1% to $6.1 billion by 2024-25, constant discounts remain pivotal for loyalty, especially as big supermarkets encroach as a viable substitute option, siphoning customers away from c-stores. Compounding this has been online shopping’s convenience, which has presented a real threat to the industry as consumers have become more accustomed to this alternative, especially from places like Coles and Woolworths. This trend has contributed to an anticipated revenue dip of 3.9% in 2024-25. Regulatory restrictions on vaping, bolstered by TGA raids and extra compliance funding, have worked to remove a key revenue stream, although illegal sales still persist. Meanwhile, rising tobacco excises strain demand, pushing retailers to invest in healthier items like high-protein snacks and grab-and-go meals. This pivot aligns with wellness trends, though the declining smoking rate and supermarket competition threaten profit. Time-poor consumers have yet to be deterred en masse by price hikes. Convenience stores’ well-placed locations and diverse product mix continue to draw customers in despite the higher prices keeping the profit margins afloat. Declining tobacco consumption and continued regulatory challenges are ultimately challenging convenience stores to refine and redefine what they sell to achieve high revenue and, at the end of the day, profitability. Going forwards, gradually falling interest rates and more stable inflation than in recent years – stabilising within the 2.0% to 3.0% range – are set to support moderate gains in consumer sentiment, though not enough to fully rebound to pre-pandemic confidence. Demand for speedy meal solutions is poised to expand, particularly as real incomes stabilise. Meanwhile, ongoing vaping restrictions and a decades-long drop in smoking rates will weigh on tobacco revenue, encouraging convenience stores to diversify their product mix. Major supermarkets remain a formidable threat, but urban expansion may boost foot traffic overall. Higher margins are set to come from self-service check-outs and AI-driven efficiencies, potentially assisting retailers in offsetting nicotine-related declines while positioning for long-term growth. This combination of factors is set to culminate in annualised growth of 0.3% through 2029-30 to $6.2 billion.

Woolworths reported AUD0.6 in EPS Earnings Per Share for its fiscal semester ending in December of 2024. Data for Woolworths | WOW - EPS Earnings Per Share including historical, tables and charts were last updated by Trading Economics this last August in 2025.