Knight Frank and NZ's Bayleys group partner in $95.5m takeover bid for McGrath

Knight Frank and NZ's Bayleys group partner in $95.5m takeover bid for McGrath

Knight Frank has teamed up with New Zealand’s Bayley Corporation to take control of John McGrath’s eponymous real estate group McGrath (ASX: MEA) in a $95.5 mil...

Medicinal cannabis group Althea shaves $1.5m from its cost base through staff cutbacks

Medicinal cannabis group Althea shaves $1.5m from its cost base through staff cutbacks

Australian-founded medicinal cannabis company Althea Group (ASX: AG...

Charter Hall snares 15pc stake in Hotel Property Investments for $97m from 360 Capital

Charter Hall snares 15pc stake in Hotel Property Investments for $97m from 360 Capital

Listed funds manager 360 Capital Group (ASX: TGP) has offloaded its...

Lendlease gains approval for $1.7b transformation of Queen Victoria Market precinct

Lendlease gains approval for $1.7b transformation of Queen Victoria Market precinct

Australian development giant Lendlease Group (ASX: LLC) has been gr...

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Simonds Group swings back into profit despite a fall in house builds

Simonds Group swings back into profit despite a fall in house builds

Homebuilder Simonds Group (ASX: SIO) has swung back into the black ...

Audinate shares hit all-time high as Dante software sales soar

Audinate shares hit all-time high as Dante software sales soar

The market capitalisation of audiovisual technology company Audinat...

Ecofibre to sell hemp seed and food business to Elixinol for $3m

Ecofibre to sell hemp seed and food business to Elixinol for $3m

Medicinal cannabis and hemp company Ecofibre (ASX: EOF) is selling ...

CAR Group accelerates earnings as vehicle sales weather economic storm

CAR Group accelerates earnings as vehicle sales weather economic storm

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Appen to shut two offices in cost cutting drive as it reels from Google contract fallout

Appen to shut two offices in cost cutting drive as it reels from Google contract fallout

Struggling artificial intelligence (AI) annotator Appen (ASX: APX) ...

Resort developer Li Zhang sentenced to 10 years in jail for tax fraud

Resort developer Li Zhang sentenced to 10 years in jail for tax fraud

A developer who conspired to defraud the Commonwealth of tax income...

QLD Government launches $3m fund to support local screen sector

QLD Government launches $3m fund to support local screen sector

With Queensland's film industry on a high following the global ...

From agritech to workplace safety: Startmate unveils a sizzling Summer ’24 cohort

From agritech to workplace safety: Startmate unveils a sizzling Summer ’24 cohort

From creating synthetic fertilisers that efficiently grow more food...

Booktopia cuts earnings guidance by $10.5m, prompting strategic review

Booktopia cuts earnings guidance by $10.5m, prompting strategic review

While the rise of social media communities like BookTok may have pl...

MedReleaf Australia acquired by Canadian cannabis producer Aurora at $50m valuation

MedReleaf Australia acquired by Canadian cannabis producer Aurora at $50m valuation

One of the nation’s leading medical cannabis product distribu...

Eureka dismisses Aspen takeover bid as "inadequate"

Eureka dismisses Aspen takeover bid as "inadequate"

The board of senior and disability accommodation provider Eureka Gr...

Mirvac abandons $670m Brisbane tower amid challenging market conditions

Mirvac abandons $670m Brisbane tower amid challenging market conditions

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Entrepreneurship

EV startup Genevo Marine set to build Australia’s first electric performance boat

EV startup Genevo Marine set to build Australia’s first electric performance boat

Renewable energy and solar industry entrepreneurs Damon Rahmate and Andrew Davey are taking their ‘green’ mission to the water with a new startup that aims to t...

Bae Juice backed by gaming rich-lister Escalante in latest $1m capital raise

Bae Juice backed by gaming rich-lister Escalante in latest $1m capital raise

Melbourne-based startup Bae Juice has raised $1 million in a new fu...

How LoanOptions.ai founder built advanced tech to "democratise" lending

How LoanOptions.ai founder built advanced tech to "democratise" lending

"The client was on a lunchbreak, and before they finished the ...

US growth on the menu for AI-powered dietary requirement app Foodini

US growth on the menu for AI-powered dietary requirement app Foodini

Thanks in part to a booming "test market" in Australia no...

Mergers and Acquisitions

Charter Hall snares 15pc stake in Hotel Property Investments for $97m from 360 Capital

Charter Hall snares 15pc stake in Hotel Property Investments for $97m from 360 Capital

Listed funds manager 360 Capital Group (ASX: TGP) has offloaded its...

Fintech Yondr Money buys nano-gifting app Shouta

Fintech Yondr Money buys nano-gifting app Shouta

Melbourne-based payments, loyalty and budgeting platform Yondr Mone...

Canva acquires professional designer software suite Affinity

Canva acquires professional designer software suite Affinity

Sydney-headquartered graphic design and visualisation tool giant Ca...

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Retail

Premier Investments targeting spin-offs for Smiggle and Peter Alexander in 2025

Premier Investments targeting spin-offs for Smiggle and Peter Alexander in 2025

Premier Investments (ASX: PMV), buoyed by another strong earnings p...

Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?

Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?

Corporate Australia loves a big merger. And amid a growing flurry o...

End of an era for Godfreys after administrators fail to find a buyer

End of an era for Godfreys after administrators fail to find a buyer

It’s finally the end of the road for vacuum cleaner retailer ...

Myer names former Qantas Loyalty boss Olivia Wirth as CEO to replace King

Myer names former Qantas Loyalty boss Olivia Wirth as CEO to replace King

Myer Holdings (ASX: MYR) has announced a new position of executive ...

 

Opinion

The Body Shop shouldn’t have failed when consumers want activism from their brands. What happened?

The Body Shop shouldn’t have failed when consumers want activism from their brands. What happened?

We are in an era of brand activism and conscious consumerism. More ...

Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?

Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?

Corporate Australia loves a big merger. And amid a growing flurry o...

Study links microplastics with human health problems – but there’s still a lot we don’t know

Study links microplastics with human health problems – but there’s still a lot we don’t know

A recent study published in the prestigious New England Journal of ...

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Capital Raising & Finance

Fintech Yondr Money buys nano-gifting app Shouta

Fintech Yondr Money buys nano-gifting app Shouta

Melbourne-based payments, loyalty and budgeting platform Yondr Mone...

Electro Optic Systems to raise $40m as backlog grows for defence and space contracts

Electro Optic Systems to raise $40m as backlog grows for defence and space contracts

Canberra-based Electro Optic Systems (ASX: EOS) is capitalising on ...

Immutable, King River Capital and Polygon Labs launch US$100m web3 gaming fund

Immutable, King River Capital and Polygon Labs launch US$100m web3 gaming fund

Australian blockchain gaming infrastructure company Immutable is te...

Marmalade raises $16m as invoice payment startup aims to process $1b in 2024

Marmalade raises $16m as invoice payment startup aims to process $1b in 2024

Melbourne-based invoice payment platform Marmalade has raised $16 m...

Property

Charter Hall snares 15pc stake in Hotel Property Investments for $97m from 360 Capital

Charter Hall snares 15pc stake in Hotel Property Investments for $97m from 360 Capital

Listed funds manager 360 Capital Group (ASX: TGP) has offloaded its...

Lendlease gains approval for $1.7b transformation of Queen Victoria Market precinct

Lendlease gains approval for $1.7b transformation of Queen Victoria Market precinct

Australian development giant Lendlease Group (ASX: LLC) has been gr...

Knight Frank and NZ's Bayleys group partner in $95.5m takeover bid for McGrath

Knight Frank and NZ's Bayleys group partner in $95.5m takeover bid for McGrath

Knight Frank has teamed up with New Zealand’s Bayley Corporat...

Australian Venue Co to buy four pubs from landlord Hotel Property Investments

Australian Venue Co to buy four pubs from landlord Hotel Property Investments

Hotel Property Investments (ASX: HPI) has exchanged contracts to se...

Leadership

Platypus Asset Management names senior analyst Jelena Stevanovic to replace long-time CEO

Platypus Asset Management names senior analyst Jelena Stevanovic to replace long-time CEO

Platypus Asset Management, a $5 billion equities funds manager owne...

"Exceptionally disappointing": The Star CEO, CFO call it quits amidst second NSW inquiry

"Exceptionally disappointing": The Star CEO, CFO call it quits amidst second NSW inquiry

Update (25 March 2024): The NSW inquiry into The Star's casino ...

Cann Group CEO resigns after just 14 months at the helm

Cann Group CEO resigns after just 14 months at the helm

Cann Group (ASX: CAN) CEO Peter Koetsier has tendered his resi...

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Health

Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?

Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?

Corporate Australia loves a big merger. And amid a growing flurry o...

Genesis Capital lifts Pacific Smiles takeover bid to $279 million

Genesis Capital lifts Pacific Smiles takeover bid to $279 million

Pacific Smiles (ASX: PSQ) suitor Genesis Capital has brus...

Hola Health greets a new chapter in telehealth with $4.5m pre-Series A raise

Hola Health greets a new chapter in telehealth with $4.5m pre-Series A raise

Perth-based telehealth and medicine delivery company Hola Health ha...

Healthcare startup Kismet secures $8.2m after year of rapid growth

Healthcare startup Kismet secures $8.2m after year of rapid growth

Melbourne-based healthcare startup Kismet has secured $8.2 million ...

SUSTAINABILITY & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

ASIC secures its first court win for greenwashing against US giant Vanguard

ASIC secures its first court win for greenwashing against US giant Vanguard

The Australian corporate watchdog has caught out one of the world&r...

The Body Shop shouldn’t have failed when consumers want activism from their brands. What happened?

The Body Shop shouldn’t have failed when consumers want activism from their brands. What happened?

We are in an era of brand activism and conscious consumerism. More ...

Study links microplastics with human health problems – but there’s still a lot we don’t know

Study links microplastics with human health problems – but there’s still a lot we don’t know

A recent study published in the prestigious New England Journal of ...

EV startup Genevo Marine set to build Australia’s first electric performance boat

EV startup Genevo Marine set to build Australia’s first electric performance boat

Renewable energy and solar industry entrepreneurs Damon Rahmate and...

 

Technology

Fintech Yondr Money buys nano-gifting app Shouta

Fintech Yondr Money buys nano-gifting app Shouta

Melbourne-based payments, loyalty and budgeting platform Yondr Mone...

Former unicorn Tritium ordered to delist from Nasdaq as shares flounder

Former unicorn Tritium ordered to delist from Nasdaq as shares flounder

Once a unicorn, now a mule, Brisbane-headquartered electric vehicle...

Electro Optic Systems to raise $40m as backlog grows for defence and space contracts

Electro Optic Systems to raise $40m as backlog grows for defence and space contracts

Canberra-based Electro Optic Systems (ASX: EOS) is capitalising on ...

Immutable, King River Capital and Polygon Labs launch US$100m web3 gaming fund

Immutable, King River Capital and Polygon Labs launch US$100m web3 gaming fund

Australian blockchain gaming infrastructure company Immutable is te...

Legal

ASIC secures its first court win for greenwashing against US giant Vanguard

ASIC secures its first court win for greenwashing against US giant Vanguard

The Australian corporate watchdog has caught out one of the world&r...

Perth adviser sentenced to two years for Genesis Minerals insider trading charges

Perth adviser sentenced to two years for Genesis Minerals insider trading charges

Inside information gained on a 2021 share placement planned by Gene...

Crown Melbourne deemed suitable to run casino

Crown Melbourne deemed suitable to run casino

Following a review of 4,000 pages of reports from a special manager...

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Marketing

The Body Shop shouldn’t have failed when consumers want activism from their brands. What happened?

The Body Shop shouldn’t have failed when consumers want activism from their brands. What happened?

We are in an era of brand activism and conscious consumerism. More ...

Predictive intelligence marketing tech Prophet raises $5m in seed round backed by Catalano

Predictive intelligence marketing tech Prophet raises $5m in seed round backed by Catalano

In a move resembling the transformation of the investment world in ...

Marketing agency Underscore enlisted 500 influencers to drive marketing for Tennis Australia

Marketing agency Underscore enlisted 500 influencers to drive marketing for Tennis Australia

After the Australian Open (AO) beat attendance records this year wi...

Consumer watchdog rings alarm bells over influencer endorsements, online reviews

Consumer watchdog rings alarm bells over influencer endorsements, online reviews

The Australian consumer watchdog has found an alarming percentage o...

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