“Upon reflection, was my vision too ambitious? Can a business truly do better for people and planet and achieve commercial success?” James Bartle, founder of Outland Denim, the sustainable gold coast label favoured by Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, remains optimistic but is still looking for answers to Dai’s question. “You wouldn’t be in this game…
melbourne builder Verve Construction has joined apartment developers Ralan and Steller and and national building supplier SWC as a big property development casualty of 2019. The Abbotsford-based company, owned by Robert Magdziarz, kept a relatively low profile but was undertaking several big apartment projects across Melbourne this year. Loading… Continue reading…
Australian womenswear brand Bardot has become the latest victim of the cut-throat retail sector, announcing they have gone into voluntary administration to save their Aussie stores. Bardot will continue trading as usual, but have appointed administrators Brendan Richards and Ryan Eagle of KPMG to find buyers or try to restructure the company. The Australian clothing…
Fraser said the group had struggled after the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal found in 2019 that the firm was partly financially responsible for the millions of dollars in damages arising from the Lacrosse tower fire in November 2014, which was ignited by a cigarette left on a balcony but fuelled by combustible cladding. Di…
Australian-founded, Hong Kong-owned denim label Jeanswest is the latest retailer to enter voluntary administration, with the future of its 146 stores uncertain. Key points: Jeanswest opened its first store in perth in 1972 and is now owned by a private Hong Kong firm Only the Jeanswest operations in Australia are affected, with stores overseas operated…
The Fair Work Ombudsman alleges that workers were not being paid weekend and public holiday penalty rates, as well as annual leave loading and overtime rates and that previous information provided by the company indicated that it owed millions of Australian dollars to its workers. Despite being conceived by Heston Blumenthal, Dinner by Heston melbourne…
Rex administrators have told hundreds of employees they are unlikely to receive their wages or any redundancy payouts for “months” with airlines expected to cease operations by the end of the day. Rex Airlines was placed into voluntary administration on late on Tuesday night after it entered a trading halt on the Australian Securities Exchange…
A chain of Hawaiian-themed salad bars called Poked have collapsed, with the directors attributing repeat COVID-19 lockdowns in sydney and melbourne as the driving factors. Founded in 2016, Poked Group operates eight restaurants employing about 50 staff, with seven located across Melbourne’s CBD and one on Sydney’s George Street. The restaurants sell customisable salad bowls,…