About Retail World

Retail World

Overview

Retail World is a long-running Australian trade magazine for the grocery and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, serving supermarket owners, managers and staff and the manufacturers, suppliers and distributors who sell through them. Published by Retail Media, it combines a print magazine — including a flagship Annual Report edition — with a daily news website at retailworldmagazine.com.au, a regular email newsletter and a digital magazine series, Retail World 360. On its own About page the magazine calls itself "the most trusted and respected source of information for the Australian grocery industry," and states that it has served the trade for over 75 years; those are the publication's own characterisations, presented here as such. Its editor-in-chief is Lorna Gloria. In October 2026 the website was publishing daily news on the supermarket sector, confirming the title remains in active operation.

History

Retail World's documented history rests largely on the magazine's own account. Its About page says the title has been "at the forefront of all the changes, challenges and experiences our industry had faced" for over 75 years, which would place its origins before 1950, and that it has published the Retail World Annual Report for over 50 years. The Annual Report is the title's signature edition: a year-end round-up of the year in grocery, with reflections from retailers, the news headlines that defined the year, product launch highlights, industry performance analysis and market share and category size data. The magazine's 2011 media kit, published by Retail Media, described Retail World as "the premier national news magazine serving the grocery trade," published fortnightly and delivered to owners and managers at head office and supermarket level, with its category-share research backed by Nielsen data nationally and Mintel research internationally. Those details are dated to the 2011 kit and describe the title as it then operated.

The continuity of the publishing operation is visible in its contact details: the telephone number published in the 2011 media kit, (02) 9890 1199, remains the magazine's phone number today. In recent years the print-and-newsletter title has added a substantial digital operation: the website now carries thousands of articles, and the Retail World 360 digital magazine series had reached Volume 8 by September 2025 and Volume 9 by March 2026, on the edition data of its online flipbook copies.

Content and Coverage

Retail World's editorial mix is built around the supermarket channel. The website's sections cover News — the largest archive, with more than 3,300 articles listed — alongside Retail News, What's New product announcements (more than 860 articles), Marketing News (over 650), retailer profiles, Business Insights analysis (over 270 pieces), events coverage and the Retail World 360 editions; those tallies are the site's own category counts as displayed in October 2026. Its October 2026 coverage illustrates the range: Woolworths and Coles store and product news, a Dan Murphy's "Australia's favourite liquor retailer" announcement, IGA's partnership with the 2026 Special Olympics Australia National Games, shopping centre sales and openings, Australian Food and Grocery Council activity around World Food Day, seasonal retail research on Halloween and Christmas spending, consumer pieces on how Australians plan to shop for the holidays and how food retail and catering drive shopping centre spending, and international retail stories such as a Woolworths New Zealand store manager award. Its events coverage extends to trade shows such as Meet the Buyer, the Western Australian food and beverage exhibition run with the Buy West Eat Best program, whose record demand the magazine reported in October 2026. A labelled International News category carries offshore retail developments of interest to Australian traders, and liquor retail, convenience and supplier product launches are covered alongside the core supermarket beat.

Longer pieces appear in the magazine and its Business Insights section — October 2026 features included food and beverage manufacturing productivity research and analysis of new retail-protection laws in Western Australia. The Annual Report edition adds the title's data franchise: market shares, category sizes and grocery outlook material that its About page describes as commonly sourced by FMCG professionals. Historically the magazine's category coverage followed a planned calendar of category reviews — hair care, beverages, frozen foods, confectionery, personal care and the like — set out in its media kits.

Audience and Reach

Retail World is a business-to-business title whose stated audience is the grocery trade itself: supermarket and grocery retailers — chain and independent — and the FMCG manufacturers, suppliers and distributors who need to reach them. Its About page states its mission as providing "trusted, informative and timely coverage of the opportunities, developments and issues affecting supermarket owners, managers, staff and suppliers." The 2011 media kit positioned the magazine as going "straight to the desks of the key decision-makers at head office and supermarket level"; that is the publisher's marketing language from 2011 and is presented as such. The newsletter signup page bills the offer as "Australia's #1 Grocery & Retail Industry Insights," which is likewise the publisher's own promotion, not an independently verified ranking. No audited circulation figure for the current magazine is published in the sources consulted for this profile, and none is asserted here.

Digital Presence

The magazine's website, retailworldmagazine.com.au, is updated daily with news and features and carries a deep archive organised by category, together with current magazine material and the Retail World 360 digital editions, which are also distributed as online flipbooks. A free email newsletter, promoted on the site as delivering grocery and retail industry updates to subscribers' inboxes, is administered through Constant Contact. Retail World maintains social channels on Facebook, Instagram and X under the Retail World Magazine name, and a LinkedIn showcase page. The site was carrying news dated 15 October 2026 and later in the week this profile was prepared, including its "Current Magazine" features, confirming an active daily digital operation alongside the print title. Its homepage also maintains a "Trending Now" rail of the week's most-read trade stories.

Ownership and Organisation

Retail World is published by Retail Media (retailmedia.com.au), the publisher named in the magazine's media kits since at least 2011. The magazine's contact page lists its corporate postal address as PO Box 6459, Yatala, Queensland 4207, with telephone (02) 9890 1199 and fax (02) 9890 7695 — the 02 area code reflecting the operation's Sydney history, a point flagged for the listing's location details at publishing time. The editorial team is led by editor-in-chief Lorna Gloria, whose author archive on the site runs to some 499 posts; staff writers include Nicholas Rider, whose archive exceeds 740 posts, and Bianca Velez. Kathy Almer is listed as sales manager and Katrina Crawford as production administrator. Retail Media also publishes trade titles in the adjacent pharmacy sector from the same operation.

Contact and Availability

Retail World can be contacted through its website, retailworldmagazine.com.au, which carries contact, subscription and advertising information, and by telephone on (02) 9890 1199; its contact page lists business hours of 7:30am to 5:30pm Monday to Thursday and 8am to 3pm on Fridays. Its corporate postal address is PO Box 6459, Yatala, Queensland 4207, Australia. The magazine is published for readers across Australia, with the daily website and newsletter free to access and print and digital magazine editions available through the site. In keeping with this directory's practice, no business email address is recorded in the structured contact field for this listing.