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Bunnings MD Mike Schneider: “I have the best retail job in the country”

Inside Retail

As I progressed through my tertiary studies, I realised that the classroom probably wasn’t for me I’d sort of fallen into education as a little bit of a plan B. The danger when you work from home is that ‘working from home’ becomes ‘living at work’, and you gotta be really careful to sort of strike that balance.

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Why the Kmart-Target back end merger has been a decade in the making

Inside Retail

Wesfarmers ultimately didn’t move forward with that plan, and instead decided to double down and invest in Kmart and Target independently. In 2002, however, the business’ managing director Larry Davis, himself originally from North America, refocused Target on bringing US-based brands into Australia.

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The fall of Debenhams and Arcadia was inevitable: both shackled by earlier financial engineering.

Nelson Blackley

Ann Summers planned a CVA to cut rent on 25 of its stores and Primark, one of UK retail’s real success stories over the past few years, took a huge estimated sales £430m hit from the Governments second wave lockdown closures across England during November. Back in 2003, private equity backers won a long battle to buy Debenhams.