Supermarket chain Coles Group Ltd <COL.AX> said on Tuesday its full-year profit declined 32%.
Australia's second largest grocery chain reported net profit of A$978 million ($705.43 million) for the year ended June 30, compared with A$1.43 billion a year earlier, beating analysts' estimates of A$932.7 million, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
(This story corrects to remove reference to higher costs related to coronavirus crisis and wage scandal in the first paragraph)
(Reporting by A K Pranav and Shashwat Awasthi in Bengaluru; Editing by Shinjini Ganguli)
