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Baby Bunting Group Limited

ASX Announcements

Change in substantial holding

Change in substantial holding

  • Jul 1, 2024
  • 2 pages

Change of Director's Interest Notice

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Jun 28, 2024
  • 10 pages

Change in substantial holding from CBA

Change in substantial holding

  • Jun 28, 2024
  • 11 pages

Market Sensitive

Investor Day Presentation

Company Presentation

  • Jun 27, 2024
  • 54 pages

New Exclusive Supplier Agreements

Progress Report, Web Casts

  • Jun 27, 2024
  • 1 page

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This Month

Baby Bunting is the country’s largest maternity and baby goods retailer.

Baby bump: Investors probe Baby Bunting’s surging share price

A simple explanation for the dramatic share price increase is it could finally be turning the corner after a very challenging period.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Baby Bunting CEO Mark Teperson is hoping to double higher margin private label sales to 20 per cent of total revenue.

Baby Bunting plots expansion on the back of HMC’s property portfolio

The retailer fell on tough times but its new CEO is expanding the network into fresh areas with smaller formats and exclusive products.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

June

Steven Siewert

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
Consumers are cutting back on spending as a mountain of household bills and expenses take their toll.

Investors fear more profit downgrades as pricing power crumbles

Erosion of pricing power for which many companies were once vaunted is shaping as the next leg of the confession season with less than a month of trading left.

  • Simon Evans

May

David Di Pilla’s HMC Capital has taken a big stake in Baby Bunting

David Di Pilla’s HMC Capital takes big stake in Baby Bunting

The country’s largest maternity and baby good retailer has had a poor year, with earnings downgrade and executives departures pushing shares a third lower.

  • Kylar Loussikian
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Households are increasingly optimistic about their financial position. But retail spending remains weak.

Shares smashed as optimistic shoppers prove no match for retail weakness

JB Hi-Fi and Baby Bunting were among stocks to slide amid disappointing earnings. But new Barrenjoey analysis suggests that the worst may have passed.

  • Simon Evans and Tom Richardson

September 2023

Retailers hope new stores will beat the spending blues

New stores are helping retailers grow topline sales but if conditions deteriorate, they may drag on earnings.

  • Sue Mitchell

August 2023

Terry Smart says the retail market will likely see more discounting as the year progresses.

Retailers face triple-whammy challenge

The post-COVID normalisation in demand has coincided with a cost-of-living crunch and soaring costs, which will squeeze sales and earnings in 2024.

  • Sue Mitchell

June 2023

Fear factor grips retailers as spending slows

A sharp slide in sales is forcing retailers to accelerate discounting and promotions amid warnings that the downturn in consumer spending could be deeper than during the early 1990s recession.

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  • Simon Evans, Carrie LaFrenz and James Eyers
Matt Haupt: “Consumer staples are defensive until they are not, and we might be entering that phase now over the next six to nine months.”

Why this rate rise will rattle corporate Australia and investors

Plunging consumer stocks are the canary in the coal mine for the corporate sector, and Tuesday’s rate rise will expand the pockets of pain investors are seeing.

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  • James Thomson
Baby Bunting shares were savaged after a profit warning.

Baby Bunting dumped to five-year low as profits slump

Shares in the retailer fell more than 16 per cent after it cut guidance following poor performance of a key promotional sale in May.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

May 2023

Mark Teperson is Baby Bunting bound.

Baby Bunting snares AfterPay executive as new CEO

Mark Teperson, a 20-year veteran of retail and fintech, will take over in October. Baby Bunting says he brings a track record of exceptional results.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

February 2023

Baby Bunting is a big seller of prams and cots.

Baby Bunting boss to exit as shares tumble on slowing sales

The specialist baby goods group suffered as people shifted to buying basics such as nappies and babywear at Kmart, Target and Big W.

  • Simon Evans

January 2023

Anthony Heraghty, CEO of Super Retail Group.

Super Retail CEO: ‘great revenge’ spend rolls on

Punishment and praise: the market reactions to the profit results of Super Retail Group and Baby Bunting could not have been more starkly different.

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  • Carrie LaFrenz

December 2022

Premier Investments chairman Solomon Lew (right) and Premier Retail chief executive Richard Murray in a Smiggle store.

Record Black Friday primes Solly Lew’s Premier Christmas

Premier Retail, which owns brands Smiggle, Dotti and Peter Alexander, achieved record sales during this year’s Black Friday sales event.

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  • Carrie LaFrenz
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September 2022

Melanie Wilson is the chairman of Baby Bunting, and is also on the board of JB Hi-Fi. Both companies were named in CEW survey as having zero women in the C-suite.

Shame file companies tout wave of women outside C-suite

Chief Executive Women’s new survey, done in partnership with Bain & Co, found multiple well-known names have zero women in high-ranking executive roles. But the targeted groups say it lacks merit.

  • Carrie LaFrenz, Simon Evans, Brad Thompson and Ayesha de Kretser

August 2022

Baby Bunting wants to open dozens more stores in Australia and at least 10 in New Zealand.

Baby Bunting profits bumped up 15pc

Delays in opening new stores because of shortages of construction materials and workers have held back Baby Bunting’s annual sales growth. But annual net profits still jumped 15 per cent.

  • Jenny Wiggins
Are we there yet? Investors are rightly looking for the bottom.

Think markets have bottomed? Profit season says be careful

Softer inflation data and solid profits have investors asking whether the worst is behind us. But tailwinds that took profits to record levels are reversing.

  • James Thomson

March 2022

The cost of electronics goods like televisions is expected to rise as inflation takes off.

More price hikes coming, shoppers told

Consumers will need to pare back purchases of discretionary items like televisions, blenders and Botox treatments as the rising cost of fuel and materials forces more companies to raise prices, business leaders say.

  • Jenny Wiggins, Carrie LaFrenz and Simon Evans

February 2022

Baby Bunting chief executive Matt Spencer.

Baby Bunting CEO says omicron has moderate impact

Australia’s largest specialty retailer of maternity and baby goods has raised its half-year dividend by 13.8 per cent.

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  • Carrie LaFrenz

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