Investors who plugged $127 million into Beston Global Food Company, with its promise of cashing in on China's fine dining boom, have suffered a bout of indigestion from their gourmet meal ticket.

Ardent Leisure chose 5.18pm on a Friday, leading into the long weekend, to announce Thomas' reign had come to an abrupt end.

You didn't have to be an airline boss to make this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list but it sure helped.

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Andrew Grech's troubled law firm Slater and Gordon announced on Thursday it is facing yet another lawsuit from disgruntled investors.

The downside from the rapid growth in Qantas' share price is that the boss Alan Joyce missed a lot of this upside when he sold 2.15 million shares in August last year.

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Your columnist has never quite understood the complex capital structure that governs the unruly dairy processor, Murray Goulburn.

A bit of notoriety is good for a medicinal cannabis startup, but obviously not too much.

It was high time somebody checked out how Therese Rein's business sale panned out.

Maxine Horne gave Aussie investors another master class in how to play the stock market this week.

James Packer helped make Lawrence Ho a billionaire, but his former business partner is in no mood for favors following Crown's China nightmare.

ANZ's latest recruitment decision could offer the most damning verdict yet on the expansive Asia strategy of Shayne Elliott's predecessor, Mike Smith.

Hard Yakka it may be but it might not be glamorous.

He created a billion-dollar childcare empire but will probably walk away without a single share to his name.

Ansell has finally parted ways with its condoms business for the princely sum of $US600 million after the boss, Magnus Nicolin, decided that condoms are not a good fit with the rest of its business.

While his Australia Post underlings faced a grilling in Canberra by the Senate estimates committee, the departing boss, Ahmed Fahour, was fronting a far friendlier business audience in Sydney to defend his pay packet and legacy.

The retail analysts at Deutsche Bank have been watching what the Woolworths board members are putting in their shopping baskets.

The corporate watchdog said the bankrupt former billionaire and two of his associates failed in their duties as directors of companies that included his thoroughbred racing empire and A-League football club, the Newcastle Jets.

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Our chief postie, Ahmed Fahour, will be a no-show at Wednesday afternoon's Senate estimates committee pow wow.

Is there anything more unlucky than a gambler's losing streak? This time last year James Packer's biggest worry was his big bet on the Philippines casino market – it was not going well.

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Subplots and twists in takeover story now playing out in public at the select committee on the future of public interest journalism.

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Australia's biggest funeral services provider, Invocare, is in the business of taking care of the business of the "departed", and it is good to see its board is taking this vocation seriously.

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Ross Lane's return to the top role at Aussie handbag maker, Oroton – after a decade-long gap – has not been particularly triumphant.

David Gonki's final speech to the Coca-Cola Amatil investors did not go down with a spoonful of sugar.

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It's looking nearly certain that one-time tech darling 1-Page has gone the way of so many CVs in recent times – in the bin.

James Packer made two brilliant business decisions more than a decade ago which ensured his wealth would soar above that of his late father, Kerry Packer.

Maxine Horne is still Australia's richest female executive, but Telstra boss Andy Penn is ensuring she will occupy a much lower rung on the rich list this year.

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Heavily-shorted sandalwood grower Quintis takes a nosedive.

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The man replacing Peter Gregg as Primary Health Care's CEO, Malcolm Parmenter, is making sure he has a Plan B in case suitors come knocking.

While the billionaire co-founder of Atlassian, Scott Farquhar, was making headlines with the purchase of of Australia's most expensive house, his business partner, Mike Cannon-Brookes, found something to crow about in another tech punt that has apparently proved a winner.