Main takeaway: Shareholders rewarded with a A$40m dividend after a challenging year for the company. NZ operations still a work in progress.
Higher costs and slowing sales growth have delivered lower profits at trans-Tasman supermarket chain Woolworths with the full year result also hit hard by impairments for the New Zealand operations and drinks subsidiary the Endeavour Group.
Woolworths' normalised after-tax profit fell 3% to A$1.71
