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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Metcash - Digital Transformation Strategies" company profile has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.coms offering.

Richard Murray helped grow a tiny JB Hi-Fi into a flagship Australian retailer. His new employer Metcash hopes he can do the same in tools.

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The businessman abruptly left Solomon Lew’s Premier Investments in August and was previously chief executive at JB Hi-Fi. He starts at Total Tools this month.

Premier Investments’ former chief executive Richard Murray will start in his new job at Total Tools at the end of this month.

The Australian sharemarket drifted lower on Monday despite a faintly positive lead from Wall Street, as investors tempered their expectations of rate cuts.

The use of engineered stone in Australia will be banned from July 1 next year.

NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania have already backed the move, which will be discussed when work health and safety ministers from across the nation meet next month.

An Australia Post distribution centre in Derwent Park is set to be sold under the hammer in early December.

Shoppers are tipped to spend over $6.3 billion over the four-day shop-a-thon, up 3 per cent on last year. But budgets are under pressure, and sales have come early.