F19 Final Profit and Dividend announcement for the 53 weeks ended 30 June 2019

Progress on key priorities:
 

• Robust customer scores, especially in Q4
• Improved sales and profit in H2 across the Group
• Solid foundations for all ‘X’ businesses in place; Group Online sales of $2.5 billion with normalised growth of 32% in F19
• Materially improved momentum in BIG W; store and DC closures announced and underway
• Petrol sale and $1.7 billion share buy-back completed; Endeavour Group transaction underway
   

More to do:
 

• Maintaining customer focus while progressing our agenda across Woolworths Group
• Delivering increased convenience for customers – Digital, Drive, Same day, Metro, Fresh Made Easy
• Continuing to leverage technology to unlock process improvements; build partnership model
• Delivering cost efficiencies - Simpler for Stores, MSRDC, Smart Store, stockloss
• Completing merger of Endeavour Drinks and ALH; progressing separation of Endeavour Group