Mr Banducci said the company was uncertain whether they could redeploy all affected workers as it did when Woolworths closed the failed Masters hardware chain. Woolworths pulls plug on Masters; So Woolworths chairman Gordon Cairns is true to his word: in November he said Woolies couldn't continue to lose $200 million a year on Masters … Woolworths slugged with $11million-plus in … The Masters business has been losing about $200 million a year, unlike main competitor Bunnings which is a major contributor to profits at its owner Wesfarmers. Woolworths plunged some $3.25 billion into the Masters hardware business before pulling the plug and offloading the properties and hardware assets. John Winning, the founder of Appliances Online and the CEO of Winning Appliances, says the failure of the Woolworths-run Masters chain isn’t a surprise. Woolworths has posted an after-tax loss of $972.7 million in its half-year results, after the retailer's failed venture into the home improvement market dragged on its bottom line. It can sustain $200 million losses in Masters for many years if it chooses to. Woolworths introduces our first range of Own Brand products. Woolies under siege in hardware wars, with Masters losing whopping $700 million. WOOLWORTHS has reported a full-year loss of $1.235 billion and a 40.8 per cent decline in underlying earnings from its Australian food and petrol business. To date the Woolworths’ hardware division turned in sales of $1.24 billion, and an operating loss of $139 million, compared to an $81 million forecast loss. From 1930, we had always marketed our products with the Woolworths logo (or under the house name, Judith Arden). In early 2014, Woolworths had a market capitalisation of $48 billion. More than half a billion dollars of discount hardware will be offloaded in a massive fire sale after Woolworths set a closing date for its failed home improvement chain Masters. Masters has racked up combined losses of more than $600 million, including an annual loss of $245 million in 2015. For Woolworths' 245,000 shareholders it was galling to see it at $29 billion at the end of last week. But in 1973, we decided to introduce a comprehensive range of ‘Own Brands’. A landowner has won his battle against Woolworths for abandoning its lease over a Masters store in Bendigo, costing the retail giant $11 million. Throwing the Masters monkey from its back won't be cheap for Woolworths, but investors are backing its decision to fold rather than double down on its failed bet, writes Michael Janda. The store closures depended on the terms of the lease agreements Woolworths has with landlords — … Woolworths has invested more than $2.1 billion in Masters, and Lowe's almost $1 billion, but the business has racked up substantial losses, including $245 million … Capital spending on the business, including finding sites and building the 63 stores, had ballooned to more than $3 billion. Woolworths further stated that the Masters business was “on track to achieve a break-even position by 2015-16”. Woolworths bounces back from a massive loss, driven by its failed Masters hardware experiment, to post a $725 million first-half profit. 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