Retail
Analysis
Solomon Lew
Sol Lew shows up Myer and powers up Smiggle
Solomon Lew's Premier Investments has embarassed Myer with a powerful performance and has unveiled a new strategy to accelerate the growth of its power brand, Smiggle.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Premier Investments
Premier Investments profit falls 20 per cent on fashion write-downs
The retail group wrote down the value of some of its fashion brands due to an "increasingly competitive" market, but pester power chain Smiggle continued to thrive.
- by Patrick Hatch
Myer
Two men with grenades: Who'll be the first to pull pin in Myer fight?
At this point both Geoff Wilson and Solomon Lew are not declaring they are on opposite sides - but it won't be long before the civility breaks down.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Coca-Cola Amatil
Coca-Cola buys MOJO kombucha as it digests a major sugar problem
What started with a husband and wife experimenting with blobs of bacteria and yeast in their back shed has grown into the newest arm of the Coca-Cola Company.
- by Patrick Hatch
Kathmandu Holdings
Kathmandu's profit billows from puffer jacket plague
Outdoors retailer Kathmandu is rewarding all permanent staff with one-off $1000 performance bonuses after lifting net profit 32 per cent.
- by Patrick Hatch
Myer
Solly Lew tries to recruit major Myer player to join insurgency
Billionaire retailer Solomon Lew has tried to enlist the newly minted, third major force on Myer's share registry into his corporate insurgency.
- by Patrick Hatch
Wesfarmers
Wesfarmers execs pay dearly for Bunnings UK disaster
Bunnings' disastrous expansion into the UK has cost former Wesfarmers executives dearly, seeing them take home relatively smaller pay packets after the foray burnt through more than $1.7 billion of shareholder value.
- by Patrick Hatch
Analysis
Analysis
Mad scramble for Myer shares: How the short sellers got squeezed
When a stock has been unloved for so long and many are betting on it to fall further, a bit of good news can go a long way. Welcome to this week at Myer.
- by Elizabeth Knight
China
Chinese shoppers fall out of love with Ikea and Apple
In China's biggest cities, the mystique of the foreign brand is fading
- by Bruce Einhorn
Myer
Myer shares soar 40pc as investors digest new strategy
Myer's share price soared almost 40 per cent on Thursday, a day after it revealed a near half-billion dollar loss.
- by Patrick Hatch
Analysis
Analysis
Done with discounting: New Myer CEO tries his predecessor's old trick
This was always going to be a horrible result - and one that its recently installed CEO John King was never going to sugarcoat as he wasn't responsible for it.
- by Elizabeth Knight