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Mitre 10 and Home Timber & Hardware deal creates new player in hardware sector

The Mitre 10 and Home Timber & Hardware (HTH) chains will be combined into a $2 billion hardware giant, with Mitre 10 owner Metcash revealing on Wednesday that it will buy the Home chain from ...
The Australian Financial Review

Metcash promises to share Mitre 10-Home Timber merger spoils

Metcash chief executive Ian Morrice has flagged a new era of growth in the independent hardware sector as the wholesaler reaps the benefits of merging Mitre 10 and Home Timber & Hardware, creating a ...
The New Zealand Herald

Comment: Four causes of timber shortage - and what can be done

Carter Holt Harvey has cut supplies to Mitre 10, Bunnings and ITM. Photo / File The current shortage of framing timber in New Zealand is a result of a global phenomenon compounded by unfortunate ...
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Metcash agrees to “undertakings” as ACCC asks industry for feedack on proposed Mitre 10 and Home Timber and Hardware merger

Metcash has provided a series of undertakings to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that it will not seek to control how much stock smaller retailers buy from its wholesale division, ...
The Australian Financial Review

Metcash interim net profit rises 24 pc on gains from Mitre 10-Home Timber merger

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. When veteran retailer Jeff Adams was sent to Turkey to turn around Tesco's supermarkets his handover consisted of a note on his desk ...