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- Jan 3, 2025
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- Jan 3, 2025
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December 2024
Stuck for gift ideas? Here are 56 popular items this Christmas
Australian shoppers are spending with surprising gusto on gadgets, appliances, fashionable drink bottles, cosmetics gift sets and cult skincare products.
- Simon Evans and Carrie LaFrenz
November 2024
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- Retail
Harvey Norman sales fall behind major rival The Good Guys
But the company’s billionaire chairman, Gerry Harvey, says that the retailer is not losing ground to the JB Hi-Fi-owned appliance store chain on key categories.
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- Simon Evans
October 2024
From Birmingham to Britain: Inside Harvey Norman’s new UK beachhead
After two years of planning, the retailer’s chief executive Katie Page will this week open the company’s first store in the country, its boldest expansion yet.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Turnaround tale Freedom Furniture back on the deals circuit
Sources said Callard would lead the sale preparations in-house, for now, adding that the process would get under way later this year or early 2025.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
August 2024
A trip to Europe tops a new fridge, says Harvey Norman chairman
Gerry Harvey says households without a mortgage would rather travel than upgrade kitchen appliances, with the retailer reporting a 35 per cent drop in profit.
- Simon Evans
July 2024
The 10 wealthiest executives in the ASX 300 revealed
The Australian Financial Review’s Rich Bosses list for 2024 is dominated by tech and mining executives and also welcomes a new face.
- Euan Black
Why only four execs have kept spot on rich bosses list over decade
Chris Ellison, Graham Turner, David Teoh and Gerry Harvey have maintained their positions while some of their richer peers of yesteryear have bowed out.
- Sally Patten and Patrick Durkin
June 2024
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
The top 20 stocks by dividend return this year
Insurers, miners and fund managers were the top performers, but experts warn of income traps.
- Lucy Dean
Wilson’s Oberg is tipping 50pc upside in this small-cap stock
Wilson Assets Management’s Oscar Oberg is bullish on Iress even as its share price has tanked. He also like G8 Education and reveals why he is looking to buy up retail stocks again.
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- Joanne Tran
Godfreys creditors wiped out after plans to sell retailer collapse
The company’s administrator, PwC, says it has succumbed to fierce price competition, souring consumer sentiment and a flawed strategy of buying out franchisees.
- Simon Evans
May 2024
- No. 38
- Rich List
Why Shakespeare matters to Rich Lister Katie Page
“We all quote Shakespeare all the time, whether we know it or not.” The Harvey Norman CEO – and Rich Lister – has a lifelong love for The Bard.
- Michael Bailey
Why Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi could be AI winners
Microsoft is making big bets on faster, more sophisticated computers. Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi and Officeworks could be unexpected beneficiaries.
- Jemima Whyte
CEOs to Labor: inflation still needs to be tamed
Measures to lift housing supply are being partly applauded, but a heavier push on curbing inflation seems to be missing in a two-speed economy.
- Simon Evans and Liam Walsh
April 2024
‘Wealth effect’: the stocks that could gain from rising house prices
Jarden highlights its best bets, saying homeowners feeling good about their property appreciation turn to spending more on big-ticket retail items.
- Simon Evans
February 2024
Harvey Norman sales crunched but retailer bullish on outlook
Revenue in Australia has begun to rise as renovations and home building increases, the country’s largest whitegoods and furniture retailer said.
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- Carrie LaFrenz
Sell-off looms as strategists warn earnings set to disappoint
The ASX is trading at all-time high, yet investment banks are warning investors may get ahead of themselves this reporting season.
- Jenny Wiggins and Sarah Jones
January 2024
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- Appliances
Godfreys goes bust, shuttering 50 stores and sacking staff
The vacuum cleaner retailer’s first store opened in 1931, but its finances have deteriorated in recent years as customers ditch old-school brands.
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- Carrie LaFrenz and Simon Evans
‘I misread the environment’: Woolworths boss on Australia Day
Woolworths, Cricket Australia and Tennis Australia have faced a public backlash for boycotting Australia Day, as Gerry Harvey bemoans a “mad, woke world” which is silencing business.
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- Patrick Durkin
Industrial action at ports ‘bigger problem’ than Red Sea attacks
Ongoing industrial action at Australian ports poses a much bigger problem for consumers than Houthi rebels in the Red Sea, experts say.
- Tom Rabe and Brad Thompson