• Hardware

Hills to post loss of between $6m and $8m

Hills Ltd will sink to another loss in 2016-17 as its share price continues to wallow.

• Updated Jun 22, 2017
• Simon Evans

• Food & drink

Hills hoists $6m from Woolworths to squeeze into the black

A $6 million payment from Woolworths dulled some of the pain for Hills, which no longer owns the iconic Hills hoist clothesline.

• Updated Feb 21, 2017
• Simon Evans

• Cloud

Ex-Hills boss Ted Pretty named CEO of Covata

Former Hills boss Ted Pretty has taken up a new CEO role at ASX-listed data security firm Covata.

• Updated Dec 23, 2016
• Simon Evans

• Boral

Investor outrage over Slater & Gordon's bonus bonanza

Angry Slater & Gordon investors plan to protest over big bonuses paid to executives despite a $1b loss.

• Updated Nov 2, 2016
• Patrick Durkin

• Hardware

Hills hoists itself free of Woolworths' Masters disaster

The Masters hardware blow-up has resulted in the unwinding of Woolies' deal to take control of Hills Ltd.

• Updated Oct 11, 2016
• Simon Evans

• Metcash

Woolworths may unpeg Hills clothesline deal to save $10m

Woolworths may give up control of the iconic Hills clothesline brand early to save an extra $10 million after the demise of Masters.

• Updated Sep 14, 2016
• Simon Evans

Hills to demerge health tech unit after it got 'lost in the noise'

Hills, the company behind the Hills hoist, will merge its hospital technology business with US firm Lincor.

• Updated Sep 13, 2016
• Simon Evans

Hills Ltd appoints David Lenz as new CEO

The revolving door at CEO level at Hills is spinning almost as fast as the company's famous hoist clothesline in a strong wind as the new bosses pledges back to basics.

• Updated Aug 29, 2016
• Simon Evans

Hills chief waits for healthcare headaches to ease

The share price of industrials group Hills Ltd is down 80 per cent since mid 2104 but the chief executive insists its foray into healthcare will pay dividends.

• Updated Dec 8, 2015
• Simon Evans

• Woolworths

Hills chief defends close links with Woolworths' Masters hardware chain

The new chief executive of battling Hills Ltd has defended an outsourcing deal for the company's iconic Hills hoist clotheslines and garden products that means a large chunk of the range is sold through Woolworths' ailing Masters hardware chain.

• Updated Aug 24, 2015
• Simon Evans

Hills Ltd books $94 million write-down as ex-CEO Ted Pretty's strategy unravels

Hills has been forced to book a $94 million write-down as the unwelcome flow-on effects of its former CEO's entrepreneurial strategy emerge.

• Updated Aug 7, 2015
• Simon Evans

• Hardware

Winding up Hills hoist connection a line to Australia’s future

Hills Ltd chief executive Ted Pretty says giving up control of the iconic Hills hoist clothesline brand to retailer Woolworths after almost 70 years is a bold step and heavy in symbolism.

• Jan 13, 2015
• Simon Evans

• Wesfarmers

Woolies set for first profit fall in 16 years, Merrill’s David Errington says

Woolworths’ net profit could fall 1.5 per cent in 2016 and 5 per cent in 2017 - the first fall in underlying profits for around 16 years - according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

• Updated Dec 4, 2014
• Sue Mitchell

• Amcor

How to invest better than the professionals

Philip Baker | Famed US money manager Peter Lynch argued that anyone managing money could beat the professionals‘s returns – so how do Australian shares fit his model?

• Updated Nov 12, 2014
• Philip Baker

• Entrepreneur

How to parent like a chief executive

Technology has proved more a blessing than a curse in keeping close to family for busy CEOs.

• Updated Sep 6, 2014
• Simon Evans