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Change of Director's Interest Notice

Change of Director’s Interest Notice

  • Dec 16, 2024
  • 2 pages

Notice of initial substantial holder for AMA

Becoming a substantial holder

  • Dec 11, 2024
  • 7 pages

Notification regarding unquoted securities - BKW

Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)

  • Dec 3, 2024
  • 6 pages

Results of Meeting

Results of Meeting

  • Nov 26, 2024
  • 2 pages

Market Sensitive

AGM Presentation 2024 and notes

Company Presentation, Trading Update, Chairman's Address to Shareholders

  • Nov 26, 2024
  • 39 pages

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June 2024

Mick Owens, the general manager of Greenfields Developments, estimates construction of about 1600 homes has been delayed due to industrial action by Endeavour Energy workers.

Pay dispute delays construction of 1600 homes

Industrial action by workers at poles and wires company Endeavour Energy is stalling the delivery of 1600 homes and $1.2 billion worth of warehouses in Sydney.

  • Campbell Kwan and David Marin-Guzman

March 2024

Building activity for detached housing in Australia tumbled by 18 per cent in the December half.

Locked out home buyers need two rate cuts to have a chance

The MD of Brickworks says 13 rate rises, bureaucratic red tape and a 30pc jump in building material costs since mid-2022 have put detached housing out of reach.

  • Updated
  • Simon Evans
Close quarters: The court action nearly a decade ago pitted Robert Millner, the chairman of Brickworks, and Soul Patts against Perpetual’s former equities head Matt Williams.

The big M&A contender no one talks about any more

It’s the year of the clean-up M&A trade. And when it comes to cleaning up, there’s one gorilla that’s been untouchable for decades.

  • Anthony Macdonald

December 2023

Revenge doesn’t drive Soul Patts chairman Robert Millner.

Soul Patts’ Rob Millner squares the circle as he comes for Perpetual

It’s hard to resist the idea that this week’s $3 billion bid for the storied fund manager doesn’t come tinged with some layer of revenge.

  • Jemima Whyte

September 2023

Despite a shortfall in housing, new dwelling approvals have fallen in the last year.

Brickworks boss says housing shortage is worse than expected

Higher energy and labour expenses offset a rise in revenues at the building materials group. But demand for bricks and tiles is an underlying strength.

  • Simon Evans
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Soul Patts CEO Todd Barlow and chairman Rob Millner are looking to new revenue streams.

Soul Patts ploughs nearly $1b into private markets

The increasing tilt toward the private markets in their annual results comes as investors see equities as too expensive.

  • Primrose Riordan

April 2023

Jeld-Wen is the market leader in windows and doors used  in home construction and renovations in Australia. Its main brands include Stegbar, Trend, Corinthian and Breezway.

Private equity giant says Stegbar can withstand housing slump

Global private equity group Platinum Equity acquired the Australasian business of Jeld-Wen for $688 million in a sale process run by Macquarie Capital.

  • Simon Evans

March 2023

Brickworks managing director Lindsay Partridge

Housing construction slide coming in six months

The boss of Australia’s biggest brickmaking group, which is lifting prices by 7pc, says the RBA risks overshooting with its rate rises.

  • Simon Evans

November 2022

Brickworks MD Lindsay Partridge has secured certainty on gas costs for the next 11 years.

Brickworks-Santos gas deal exposes split fortunes of buyers

While operators like Brickworks have proved eminently capable of brokering reasonable gas supply in today’s tight market, smaller players are still being hammered.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
Brickworks managing director Lindsay Partridge.

Brickworks signs 11-year ‘affordable’ gas deal with Santos

The deal flies in the face of warnings that gas is too expensive for manufacturers on the east coast and ahead of expected government intervention on prices.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith and Simon Evans

October 2022

FBR Limited’s Hardian X robotic bricklaying machine.

Brickworks hoovers up more FBR Ltd stock

Brickworks’ appetite for robotic bricklayer FBR Ltd shows no sign of slowing, with the group understood to be behind another large parcel of shares on Monday night. 

  • Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood

September 2022

The boss of Brickworks says the group has lifted brick prices by about 10 per cent, and the huge pipeline of work still in the system will be a buffer against the effect of interest rate rises.

This brickmaker saw inflation coming when the RBA didn’t

The boss of Brickworks says there’s a long pipeline of new home construction because of backlogs, delays and tradie shortages.

  • Simon Evans
FBR Limited’s Hadrian X robotic bricklaying machine.

Brickworks rekindles passion for FBR; investors watch for a bid

Washington H Soul Pattison-backed Brickworks is back cracking onto listed robotic bricklayer FBR, sparking fund managers’ hopes for a bid.

  • Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood

August 2022

Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox with the time-travelling DeLorean in Back To The Future. In the second of the movies Back to the Future II - the Doc Brown character used banana skins to help fire up the DeLorean.

Brickworks and Delorean go Back to the Future to curb gas woes

The Doc Brown character used banana skins as a fuel, and it’s a similar concept in a potential $20m-plus bioenergy plant in outer Sydney.

  • Simon Evans

July 2022

Lindsay Partridge: The deal allows us to capitalise on strong growth in industrial land values

Brickworks cashes in on industrial land boom with Goodman deal

The 15 properties earmarked for the manufacturing trust cover a combined 496ha and are predominantly in Queensland, Victoria and WA.

  • Larry Schlesinger
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June 2022

Brick makers are facing crippling gas prices.

Energy aid package for business on crisis agenda

A crisis meeting of energy ministers on Friday will consider a financial aid package for business and manufacturers to help ease the cost of soaring energy bills.

  • Patrick Durkin
The proposed hydrogen hub would be part of the transition plan for AGL’s Torrens Island power station site in Adelaide, South Australia.

AGL, Brickworks plan hydrogen hub in Adelaide

The eight-strong consortium examining a hydrogen plant in Adelaide also includes partners from major Asian corporates in Japan and South Korea.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
Lindsay Partridge, managing director of Brickworks, says a 25-year plan is needed for Australia’s energy market and infrastructure.

Big brickmaker says 25-year plan needed for energy fix

Brickworks says it is likely to shift maintenance shutdowns to winter from next year to help ease pressure on a creaking energy grid.

  • Simon Evans

March 2022

Glen Robinson, CEO of Beacon Lighting.

Buy, hold, sell: 5 small caps with big dividends

Two fund managers analyse five small caps that are delivering big dividends.

Brickworks says a roof tiler shortage is exacerbating delays in new home construction and renovations. It has also pushed through price rises across most of its range in bricks, tiles and masonry products.

Brickworks boss says roof tile prices jump 20pc

The managing director of Australia’s biggest brickmaker says some people are still waiting for construction to start on a new house 18 months after signing.

  • Simon Evans

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