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HY25 Results Presentation

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Downer EDI chief executive Peter Tompkins says the contractor has “turned the corner”

Downer EDI boss says price-fixing claims won’t hurt Defence bid

Peter Tompkins is confident the competition watchdog’s investigation into alleged price fixing won’t hurt its chances of winning multi-billion dollar defence contracts.

  • 8 mins ago
  • Jenny Wiggins
The tone set at the top of our banks has been shown to have been too focused on profits.

What we learnt: This is what’s behind the blue-chip battering

It was sell first, ask questions later on Thursday as some ASX big names were dumped. Why? It’s all about the outlook.

  • James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald

December 2024

Downer's Spotless Laundries provides hiring, cleaning and delivery services for linen and garments.

Macquarie Infrastructure circles Adamantem’s laundry business

Street Talk understands one of Macquarie Infrastructure’s entities is weighing an acquisition of Linen Services Australia.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Gina Cass-Gottlieb has gone after a bunch of Australia’s best known businesses in her two and a half years in charge of the ACCC. She added a few more to the trophy cabinet on Thursday.

Nothing like an ACCC cartel case to scare the pants off corporate Australia

Cartel cases – even the ones that bomb – are scary. This is questionable, but definitely worth watching.

  • Anthony Macdonald
Downer and Ventia Services help maintain and operate Defence bases around the country

Downer EDI, Ventia Services execs named in price-fixing allegations

The contractors’ shares tumbled as investors worried whether the allegations would hurt their ability to win tens of billions of dollars of future Defence contracts.

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  • Jenny Wiggins
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Paul Signorelli of the Doltone House Group has been working from home since contracting COVID-19 at Christmas.

Downer exits Spotless catering biz; sells NZ arm to Doltone House owners

Downer boss Peter Tompkins has agreed terms to offload the Spotless New Zealand catering business to the Signorelli family’s Doltone Hospitality Group.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

September 2024

Downer boss Peter Tompkins is on a mission to change the company’s organisational psychology.

Back to basics works for bombed out blue chips

Here’s a lesson for all the new CEOs; investors prefer it when you fix what you’ve got, rather than chase what you think you need.

  • Anthony Macdonald

August 2024

Downer EDI boss Peter Tompkins

Downer EDI back in the black as cost-cutting pays off

The contractor’s shares soared on Friday as it swung back into profit and proved it could increase earnings margins.

  • Jenny Wiggins

July 2024

Part of the $2.3 billion EnergyConnect transmission line being built between South Australia and NSW.

Downer EDI pitches in on flailing EnergyConnect construction

The troubles at the cable project are being closely watched because its failure would imperil the entire build-out of the transmission grid, sources say.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith and Jenny Wiggins

May 2024

Downer EDI chief executive Peter Tompkins.

More jobs go at Downer EDI in efficiency drive

Dozens of employees have lost their jobs in a new wave of cost-cutting including senior executives and people in the engineering group’s IT operations.

  • Jenny Wiggins

April 2024

ICAC said the findings were “not so serious as to merit criminal punishment”.

Downer EDI employees, council workers ‘seriously corrupt’, ICAC finds

Two former employees of Downer EDI were corrupt on transport projects and the company did not always comply with rules dealing with subcontractors, investigators found.

  • Jenny Wiggins

March 2024

Downer chief executive Peter Tompkins.

Downer EDI gets ready to reboot mineral processing division auction

Sources said the contractor is sticking with Barrenjoey, and a sales process is expected to launch in the coming months.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Scyne Advisory partner Connie Heaney outside the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday.

Scyne too slow in bid to stop former partner moving to Downer: judge

The PwC spin-off failed in a bid to temporarily restrain an ex-partner from working at services contractor Downer EDI because it took too long to bring the action.

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  • Edmund Tadros
KPMG has clashed with Downer over the auditing of the contractor’s accounts between 2020 and 2022

KPMG knew AusNet contract was a ‘risk,’ Downer claims

The firm had flagged the agreement with the utilities group and should have discovered revenue was overstated, the contractor had alleged.

  • Jenny Wiggins

Downer’s stoush with KPMG a big test for corporate Australia

Cosy relationships between big four audit firms and directors have greased corporate Australia’s wheels for decades. Now they are coming under pressure.

  • Anthony Macdonald
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Downer chief executive Peter Tompkins is one of several senior figures named in a lawsuit against the company.

Downer EDI sues KPMG for failing to detect accounting irregularities

The contractor has sought to blame its auditor for the scandal, which wiped some $500 million from its valuation, forcing the firm to quit as auditor.

  • Jenny Wiggins

February 2024

Ryan Stokes has the Seven Group sailing ahead.

What we learnt from Seven, Dexus, Downer and AMP’s results

Seven thrills investors with yet another profit upgrade, Downer and AMP claw back lost ground and Dexus’ departing boss stands firm on a key project.

  • James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
Downer boss Peter Tompkins

Downer EDI net profit rises 6pc on turnaround

Downer EDI’s shares surged to their highest levels in more than a year after profits beat expectations and the contractor deepened its cost-cutting targets.

  • Jenny Wiggins

November 2023

Downer EDI chairman Mark Menhinnitt

Grant Fenn should be accountable for Downer woes, proxy groups say

Downer EDI is poised to cop a protest vote against exec pay at this week’s AGM after advisers queried share rights awarded to its former CEO.

  • Jenny Wiggins
Palisade Investment Partners’ Jeremy Wernert and Steve Gross.

Citi, Skye advise Palisade on winning bid for Downer’s Repurpose It

The sale price is understood to have valued it at less than seven-times EBITDA. It’s at the lower end of the multiples that waste management companies have traditionally fetched.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

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