How to lift productivity and wages
"Corporate Australia is saying, 'We've cut all the costs out, we need to invest'."
James Thomson is The Australian Financial Review's Companies & Markets Editor and a former BRW Editor, based in our Melbourne newsroom.
"Corporate Australia is saying, 'We've cut all the costs out, we need to invest'."
APRA has named Graeme Samuel, Jillian Broadbent and its own former chairman John Laker to head the panel of its inquiry into the culture of CBA.
Santos and Origin have inked a new deal to supply Chinese-controlled plastics maker Qenos with ethane until the end of 2019.
Rio Tinto chief executive JS Jacques has backed the Turnbull Government's review of GST arrangements.
The management teams of Australia's big banks have been "boxed in" by regulatory changes, which will crimp revenue growth, and increase costs, Citi says.
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Blue-chip companies have been willing to move a director to the CEO role in times of crisis, and CBA could follow.
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The backers of a small mining firm in New Zealand have launched a $886 million legal claim ASX-listed BlueScope.
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Independence Group managing director Peter Bradford says the miner will look at boosting shareholder returns in the next few years.
Blackmores investors are used to big increases, but a jump in inventory provisions is a sign on the pressure it's facing.
CITIC has warned it may be forced to suspend operations at its Sino Iron mine in WA if it can't resolve a series of disputes with Clive Palm...
The $111b German giant BASF Chemicals says the Government should implement the recommendations of the Finkel Review to ensure the affordabil...
Even before he's taken the big job, expectations about the reign of BHP chairman elect Ken MacKenzie are sky high. Which is good and bad.
The capitulation on shale and departure of Grant King might look ugly, but BHP shareholders couldn't be happier.
Elliott will not nominate directors for the BHP board, giving chairman-elect Ken MacKenzie clear air for further board renewal.
Grant King's decision to leave the BHP board followed more than 100 meetings between chairman-elect Ken MacKenzie and investors.
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