September 2024
Attacks on retirees are getting old
Readers’ letters on the wealth of retirees; the Reserve Bank of Australia and fixed-interest investors; and private hospitals
May 2024
Greens inflaming housing crisis
Readers’ letters on the Greens; Labor’s gas strategy; International Energy Agency chief Fatih Birol; and Kerry Stokes putting an end to printed copies of The Australian Financial Review in WA.
April 2024
Attack on Banducci financially illiterate
Readers’ letters on the clash between Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci and Greens senator Nick McKim; violence in Sydney; fixed parliamentary terms; and manufacturing in Australia
October 2020
Audi's electric SUV hums, with one 'awful' drawback
If you take the hefty price out of the equation, the 55 First Edition is everything you’d want in a luxury SUV – except for those giant camera mirrors.
- Tony Davis
May 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Behind Canberra's fury with Andrew Forrest
The billionaire is a passionate patriot but there's a complex backdrop to the government's anger about his providing a platform for China’s consul-general last week.
- Jennifer Hewett
October 2019
Laura McBain departs as CEO of Maggie Beer parent company
Laura McBain exits after two years as chief of ASX-listed Longtable Group, which owns the Maggie Beer Products gourmet food operations.
- Simon Evans
- Opinion
- BOSS
The one book you should read this summer
It's not fair dinkum fiction, but The Overstory, by Richard Powers, has plenty of lessons for us wage slaves.
- Angus Grigg
November 2017
Primary Opinion's directors could get millions in cheap stock
Primary Opinion's CEO and board stand to make a killing on some very cheap stock offered in an equity raising.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Laura McBain makes first move at Primary Opinion, buying B.-d Paris Creek
Ex-Bellamy's Australia boss Laura McBain has made her first acquisition since joining listed Primary Opinion, snapping up a bio-dynamic organic dairy farm for $34m.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
August 2017
Maggie Beer Products produce heartburn from losses
The Maggie Beer Food Products business has dived into the red, causing heartburn for ASX company which bought 48pc last year.
- Updated
- Simon Evans
Former Bellamy's Australia CEO Laura McBain's corporate reinvention
It was a balmy Barcelona evening in June when the penny dropped for Laura McBain. It was time to get back in the corporate saddle.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz and Simon Evans
May 2017
Maggie Beer Products shifts online to Melbourne, millennial focus
Maggie Beer Products is shifting its online distribution to Melbourne after a review found it needs to focus more on the millennials.
- Updated
- Simon Evans
August 2016
Baby Boomers to remake aged-care menus
Celebrity chef Maggie Beer says kale and chick peas are a new economic driver for aged care facilities.
- Updated
- Simon Evans
July 2016
Maggie Beer owner's shares fail to rise
Financial services veteran Tony Robinson reckons the path to growth for the Maggie Beer Products brand is a broader range.
- Updated
- Jessica Gardner
June 2016
Maggie Beer book royalties, TV fees and Farm Shop off limits to float investors
Parts of Maggie Beer's business empire including book royalties and television appearance fees will be off limits to investors.
- Updated
- Simon Evans
May 2016
New Maggie Beer chair Tony Robinson keen to push into a willing Chinese market
The chairman of the ASX company buying 48 per cent of Maggie Beer's food business knows it is a capital-hungry industry as they set sights on the giant China market.
- Updated
- Simon Evans
Maggie Beer food revenue at $21m with slim profits as Primary Opinion moves in
Investors have been given a glimpse into the inner workings of the premium food business of celebrity chef Maggie Beer ahead of a planned capital raising.
- Simon Evans