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- Woolies fined $172k. Woolworths-owned ALH Group, Australia's third-largest pokies operator, has been ordered to pay more than $172,000 after two of its hotels in New South Wales were found to have systematically supplied pokies players with free alcohol, the NSW Department of Customer Service has revealed.
- Woolworths is the largest supermarket/grocery store chain in Australia, owned by Woolworths Limited. Along with Coles, Woolworths form a near duopoly of Australian supermarkets, together accounting for about 80% of the Australian market.
- Woolworths Online supports the Responsible Service of Alcohol. As per Liquor Act 2007, it is against the law to sell or supply alcohol to, or to obtain alcohol on behalf of, a person under the age of 18 years. For more specific legislation in your state.
Woolworths said it expected to retain minority ownership of the new business, to be called the Endeavour Group. The supermarket chain has come under constant pressure from anti-gambling campaigners over its 75 per cent stake in ALH, which is Australia's largest operator of poker machines with more than 12,000 across its 323 pubs and clubs. For all liquor orders processed, Woolworths Group is acting as an agent on behalf of Endeavour Group Limited (ABN 77 159 767 843). Woolworths Online supports the Responsible Service of Alcohol. As per Liquor Act 2007, it is against the law to sell or supply alcohol to, or to obtain alcohol on behalf of, a person under the age of 18 years.
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Pokies protest outside the Woolworths AGM in 2015. Picture: Stephen CooperSource:News Corp Australia
Supermarket giant Woolworths is going to combine its liquor and hospitality businesses before divesting them in the next financial year.
Woolies will merge Endeavour Drinks, which includes Dan Murphy's and BWS, with the hotels and gaming-focused ALH Group by the end of the calendar year to create a stand-alone business called Endeavour Group.
'Following the combination, Woolworths Group intends to pursue a separation of the business through a demerger or other value-accretive alternative … in calendar year 2020,' the company said on Wednesday.
Woolworths did not say whether it plans to sell or list the new business, although it does expect to retain a minority shareholding whichever route it takes.
Wesfarmers pursued the latter option when it divested supermarket chain Coles last year, retaining a 15 per cent stake as Woolworths' fierce rival listed on the ASX.
Woolworths, which has already offloaded its petrol business, said the separation will create a simplified structure and a greater focus on its core food and everyday needs markets.
'The board believes that a merger of Endeavour Drinks and ALH followed by a separation, is in shareholders' best interests and will benefit customers and team members of both groups,' Woolworths chairman Gordon Cairns said.
Endeavour Drinks and ALH together were responsible for more than 30 per cent of Woolworths' earnings in the last financial year, with Endeavour Drinks the group's second-largest contributor after Australian supermarkets in terms of both sales and earnings.
The integrated Endeavour Group will comprise of more than 1500 BWS and Dan Murphy's retail drinks outlets and 327 ALH hotels and neighbourhood pubs.
Other businesses to be included in the merger include Endeavour Drinks' own and exclusive brands business, Pinnacle Drinks; Langton's, a fine wine auction and retail business; Cellarmasters, a wine subscription business; and an 8.7 per cent stake in ALE Property Group.
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Bruce Mathieson Group, the junior partner in the ALH joint venture that includes hotels and pokies, will swap its 25 per cent stake for a 14.6 per cent interest in the new Endeavour Group.
