is target australia the same as target usa
Target Australia In 1968, Myer Emporium Ltd purchased the chain of 16 stores and renamed the company Lindsay's Target Pty Ltd,[4] with an aim to expand the business.[6] With the stores rebranded as Target, it quickly established itself throughout Australia, and within 3 years had stores in Victoria, South Australia, Queensland and NSW.[5] Despite the similar logo, name and type of outlets, Target carried no corporate connection to US department store Target.[7] In March 1973, "Lindsay's" was dropped from the company name when the business was renamed Target Australia Pty Ltd.[4]
Metrication in Australia Before 1970, Australia mostly used the imperial system for measurement, which the Australian colonies had inherited from the United Kingdom. Between 1970 and 1988, imperial units were withdrawn from general legal use and replaced with SI metric units, facilitated through legislation and government agencies. SI units are now the sole legal units of measurement in Australia. Australia's largely successful transition to the metric system contrasts with the ongoing opposition to metrication in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.