Coles Local is a subsidiary of
Coles Supermarkets
Coles Supermarkets Australia Pty Ltd, trading as Coles, is an Australian supermarket, retail and consumer services chain, headquartered in Melbourne as part of the Coles Group.
Founded in 1914 in Collingwood by George Coles, Coles operates ...
in Australia, founded in November 2018 in
Surrey Hills, Victoria
Surrey Hills is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Boroondara and Whitehorse local government areas. Surrey Hills recorded a population of 13,655 at ...
as a way of expanding into the popular small format store market.
It has since expanded to fifteen sites in
Victoria,
New South Wales and
Queensland. This includes the Balwyn North store, which opened in 1960 and was the site of the first Coles supermarket in Australia (but not the first Coles store, which opened in Collingwood in April 1914).
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Retail companies established in 2018
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2018 establishments in Australia