List of Woolworths Group companies

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Woolworths Limited headquarters in the Norwest Business Park

This list of Woolworths Group companies is a compilation of the divisions, chains, and brands of Woolworths Group, a major Australian company with extensive retail interest throughout Australia and New Zealand. It is the second-largest company in Australia by revenue, after Perth-based retail-focused conglomerate Wesfarmers, and the largest food retailer in Australia, [1] as well as the second largest in New Zealand. [2]

Contents

The Woolworths Limited group is currently divided into three business divisions; Australian Food, New Zealand Food & Portfolio.

Operating Segments

Australian Food

Woolworths Food Retail

Woolworths Food Retail includes Woolworths Supermarkets and Metro

  • Woolworths Supermarkets The company's premier supermarket chain, which operates in every Australian state and territory. The supermarkets are often colloquially known as "Woolies" and have used the slogan 'The Fresh Food People' since 1987.
  • Woolworths Metro - Inner-urban small format supermarkets located in the key metropolitan areas selling a range of pre-prepared meals & fresh food for the 'time poor' customer.

WooliesX

WooliesX is Woolworth's Digital & eCommerce division. [3]

  • eComX
    • Woolworths Online (B2C eCommerce) An online supermarket allowing customers to order groceries and have them delivered to their front door. The groceries are packed in special warehouses and stores located around the country. [4]
    • Woolworths at Work (B2B eCommerce) An online shopping platform for business consumers that allows Australian workplaces to shop online for fresh food, kitchen and cleaning supplies, and other essential products launched in 2020. [5]
    • MILKRUN Milkrun powered by Metro is the rebranding of Woolworth's own similar Metro60 food delivery service after it acquired former start-up 'MILKRUN' in 2023. [6] [7]
    • HomeRun HomeRun provides delivery across Woolworth's Australia and New Zealand businesses. [8]
  • Everyday Rewards & Services Division offering the Everyday Rewards Loyalty program with customers fuel saving offers, and Money Off your shop. As of February 2010, there were 4.6 million Everyday Rewards cards registered, with 2.1 million linked with Qantas Frequent Flyer memberships, the scheme has since rebranded from Everyday Rewards and some former liquor businesses of Woolworths Limited no longer accept the scheme since 2021. [9] EverydayX is their digital Everyday Rewards platform. [10]
  • Digital & Media
    • idX Digital division featuring the ConnectedX platform that creates 'digital experience'. [11]
    • Cartology established in 2019 as Woolworths's retail media business. [12] It includes former retail digital media company Shopper Media Group that was acquired in 2022. [13] [14]

Australian B2B

B2B Food

B2B Food is a segment targeting businesses, food service channels and wholesale markets with good food, good service and good value under Woolworths Food Company.

Woolworths Food Company
Woolworths Food Company, or Woolworths FoodCo, is the division responsible for developing new product categories, improving fresh meat supply and processing facilities, and developing strategic sourcing relationships with Woolworths’ primary industry partners. [15] It produces the Woolworths 'Woolworths Own and Exclusive' Private label products.

  • Australian Grocery Wholesalers (AGW) was established in October 2019 originally to supply Caltex (now Ampol) petrol stations and is now a national food wholesaler.
  • PFD Food Services Pty Ltd (PFD) is a wholesale food distribution business that supplies and delivers an extensive range of fresh, frozen and dry goods to business customers across Australia. [16] Woolworths took over PFD from the Smith family on 28 August 2024. [17]

Woolworths Own and Exclusive brands

  • All Smiles
  • Apollo
  • Armada
  • Azure
  • Balnea
  • Baxter
  • Bell Farms
  • Chevron
  • Clean
  • Confidere
  • Eva May
  • Farmer’s Own
  • First Force
  • Frankie & Friends
  • Help at Hand
  • Highgate
  • Hillview
  • House & Home
  • Inspire
  • La Gina
  • Little Ones
  • Little Wishes
  • Lolly Go Round
  • Macro Wholefoods Market
  • Market Value
  • Mint
  • Oscar Orsen
  • Plantitude
  • Plus Sum
  • Prep Set Go
  • Quantum
  • Shine
  • Smiling Tums
  • Smitten
  • Soften
  • Strike
  • Sushi Izu
  • Thomas Dux
  • Vevelle
  • Voeu
  • Woolworths Gold
  • Your Majesty
  • Zen Zone

B2B Supply Chain

  • Primary Connect is a national distribution network, consisting of road, rail and ocean transport services and Third Party Logistics storage facilities that was established 2023 in Australia and 2019 in New Zealand. It sits within the Woolworths Supply Chain structure and works with the Woolworths Replenishment team and Woolworths Distribution Centres. [18]
  • Statewide Independent Wholesalers (SIW) is a joint venture between Woolworths and Tasmanian Independent Retailers operating in Tasmania.

New Zealand Food

W Living

Non-food retail businesses, including discount general merchandise retailer and online businesses.

Others

WPay

WPay is a spin-off of Woolworths in-house payment processing capability into a standalone business offering a cloud-based payments-as-a-service platform to other Australian merchants. [23] [24] [25]

Q-Retail

Joint venture between Woolworths group and Quantium that offers data science and advanced analytics services. [26] [27]

  • wiq by Woolworths
  • WiQ by Quantium

Former chains and brands

Australia

Endeavour Group

The Endeavour Group was a joint venture with the Bruce Mathieson Group containing a range of liquor & hospitality assets. Woolworths Group held a 85% stake in the Endeavour Group. [39] In June 2021, the Endeavour Group was listed as a separate entity on the Australian Stock Exchange. [40]

  • BWS – Liquor stores mostly co-located with the company's supermarkets.
  • Cellarmasters – Online wine business; Woolworths Limited bought the company in 2011. [41]
  • Dan Murphy's – Large liquor barns often referred to as Liquor Supermarkets.
  • Langton's – Wine auctioneers and retailers
  • Australian Leisure and Hospitality Group [42] – Hotel and poker machine operator. Involvement in the poker machine industry, and has led to extensive ongoing boycott campaigns [43] by GetUp!! and others.

New Zealand

India

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