Yesterday
Star’s Steve McCann and the Malay tycoon
Sources say McCann has been doing a range of work for the low-profile Malaysian businessman since leaving Crown Resorts.
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- Myriam Robin
July
The 10 wealthiest executives in the ASX 300 revealed
The Australian Financial Review’s Rich Bosses list for 2024 is dominated by tech and mining executives and also welcomes a new face.
- Euan Black
Jobless rate rises; COVID-hit Biden signals exit; Trump hurts Nvidia
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Why only four execs have kept spot on rich bosses list over decade
Chris Ellison, Graham Turner, David Teoh and Gerry Harvey have maintained their positions while some of their richer peers of yesteryear have bowed out.
- Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
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- Luxury property
Stock picker tipped to be buyer of $24m Darling Point unit
As the trophy market enters the winter doldrums, Potentia Capital’s Andy Gray and his wife Emma have quietly sold their Darling Point mega apartment.
- Bonnie Campbell
June
Retailers have bigger worries than possible interest rate rise
Nick Scali and Harvey Norman say they are getting squeezed from all directions. A rate rise would add to their woes but other costs are doing more damage.
- Carrie LaFrenz and James Eyers
March
‘Dangerous lunatic, but good for markets’: Business on Trump
Corporate heavyweights including John Wylie, Danny Gilbert and Gerry Harvey don’t have much time for Trump. But is Biden any better?
- Samantha Hutchinson and Patrick Durkin
‘We’ve gone soft’: Labor old guard backs Keating
Chairman Tony Shepherd has backed Paul Keating’s sentiment that “we have gone soft” but billionaire Gerry Harvey says Keating is living in the past.
- Patrick Durkin
February
Harvey Norman sales crunched but retailer bullish on outlook
Revenue in Australia has begun to rise as renovations and home building increases, the country’s largest whitegoods and furniture retailer said.
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- Carrie LaFrenz
January
‘I misread the environment’: Woolworths boss on Australia Day
Woolworths, Cricket Australia and Tennis Australia have faced a public backlash for boycotting Australia Day, as Gerry Harvey bemoans a “mad, woke world” which is silencing business.
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- Patrick Durkin
Rich horse trainers buy up big, but sales soften ‘at the lower end’
As of Friday afternoon, Magic Millions had broken last year’s record for the number of million dollar yearlings sold.
- Zoe Samios
Buying a horse can be like poker – this woman reads the millionaires
Among the most crucial people at the Magic Millions auction house are its bid spotters – those between the yearlings and the millionaires.
- Zoe Samios
Queensland rain no barrier to the ‘event that gets the year started’
Magic Millions might just be the only place on earth where Hollywood stars and former rugby league players share a meal and a glass of champagne.
- Zoe Samios
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How to buy a yearling at Magic Millions, according to the experts
Experts rely on physical and mental attributes to pick out the next champion thoroughbred at Magic Millions, but there are other ‘weird and wacky’ tactics used.
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What to expect from this year’s Magic Millions
With thousands of attendees every year, the event has grown bigger than anything its founder, Carl Waugh, could have envisioned.
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Records set to tumble at Magic Millions auction
This year’s Magic Millions Yearling Sale is tipped to be another record as the big buyers from all around the world gather on the Gold Coast for the auction.
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Industrial action at ports ‘bigger problem’ than Red Sea attacks
Ongoing industrial action at Australian ports poses a much bigger problem for consumers than Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, experts say.
- Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson
December 2023
The Gold Coast carnival that fuels the Magic Millions machine
Barry Bowditch has spent six months searching for Australia’s best yearlings, with more than 1400 up for sale at an event that attracts the world’s richest horse owners.
- Zoe Samios
Gerry Harvey and Unilever pile into local hair care start-up Straand
Earlier this year, Sephora agreed to stock the fast-growing hair and scalp care brand in stores across Australia, the United Kingdom and Asia.
- Carrie LaFrenz
November 2023
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- AGM season
Harvey Norman gets Black Friday boost, but sales are still heading south
Sales at the retailer’s Australian franchise stores tumbled 11.9 per cent since the start of July, even with a bump in trade from the annual discounting event.
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- Carrie LaFrenz
