Who owns jb hi

News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. Dow Jones. JBH Australia: Sydney search.

Advanced Charting Compare. Open Income Statement. Balance Sheet. Cash Flow. Historical Prices. Advanced Charting. Employees 13, Sector Specialty Retail.

Sales or Revenue 8. Mark D. All Executives Terry D. Peter Green Operations Director. Simon Page Group Director-Technology. Cameron Trainor Managing Director. Coles executives have been forced to defend a significant change introduced to their supermarkets across the country. Best of shopping Premium Membership. In the know quiz. Gerard Cockburn. More from retail. Flexible business model? Diversity of product categories? High-quality store portfolio? Experienced management team?

Double tick. Hand-written signs and bargain bins - JB Hi-Fi hasn't strayed too far from its roots. Penny Stephens. Net profit rose 6. Tweaking its range to keep up with changing technology has been a cornerstone of JB Hi-Fi's resilience. The retailer was once Australia's largest seller of music CDs, movies and computer games - and probably still is. But software now accounts for only 8 per cent of total sales, down from 16 per cent in and 27 per cent in The decline in high-margin software sales and growth in lower margin hardware sales, such as TVs, phones, computers, laptops, digital cameras and gaming accessories, has forced JB Hi-Fi to continually improve productivity to maintain margins.

Last year, for example, the retailer issued staff with headsets to improve communication and speed the flow of stock from back of stores to the shop floor.

It also merged the JB and Good Guys support centres into a single site at Southbank in Melbourne, and consolidated warehouses after realising it can better serve online customers by picking orders from stores rather than from centralised distribution centres. It flexes labour up or down depending on trading — the workforce is about 60 per cent full time, 20 per cent part-time and 20 per cent casual — and invests heavily in staff training.