ERM Power back in the black
Higher margins on sales of electricity to business customers have propelled ERM Power into the black in the first half.
Tampon price war hits Asaleo Care
Asaleo Care, a maker of personal care and hygiene products, has blamed price undercutting of its Libra tampons for a 4.9 per cent fall in earnings
Sonnen to turn on SA storage battery factory
The world's largest home storage battery company will be making batteries in Adelaide within nine months which will employ 130 people in "jobs of the future", state premier Jay Weatherill said Thursday.
Coca-Cola Amatil throws weight behind Brand Coke
Coca-Cola Amatil is aiming to restore profit growth in its Australian beverages business by throwing its weight behind Brand Coke and Mt Franklin rather than developing new products and categories.
Pact Group acquisition strategy paying off
Pact Group chairman Raphael 'Ruffy' Geminder believes his 'big hairy aspirational goal' to keep growing his plastics and packaging company around the region is 'alive and kicking'.
BOC in $35m gas plant upgrade
BOC will use a $35 million upgrade of a production site in western Sydney to launch a push into Asia in what counts as an unusual success st...
ERM Power boss warns of NEG costs
The head of the country's biggest specialist supplier of energy to business customers has warned that the proposed National Energy Guarantee...
Boral CEO's painful lesson from the past
Boral CEO Mike Kane runs a $9 billion company but he always remembers the boom and bust cycle that left his grandfather penniless when he di...
Australia's hot-water king dies
Like many of his generation of industrialists, Michael Crouch and his Zip Industries could have withered behind the tariff wall had he not d...
Lion Co earnings fall on weaker drinks sales
Japanese brewer Kirin is hoping for a turnaround at food and drinks group Lion after another year of declining sales and earnings in 2017.
