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Notification of cessation of securities - SIG

Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)

  • Nov 15, 2024
  • 4 pages

Ceasing to be a substantial holder from PPT

Ceasing to be a substantial holder

  • Nov 13, 2024
  • 5 pages

Change in substantial holding

Change in substantial holding

  • Nov 12, 2024
  • 11 pages

Change in substantial holding from HMC

Change in substantial holding

  • Nov 11, 2024
  • 7 pages

Change in substantial holding from CGF

Change in substantial holding

  • Nov 11, 2024
  • 8 pages

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This Month

Sigma Healthcare’s deal to buy Chemist Warehouse will have index funds chasing a small pile of stock.

Chemist Warehouse/Sigma squeeze spicier than a Guzman y Gomez burrito

Hold on to your hats! Chemist Warehouse’s arrival on the bourse serves as a case study in the dark arts of index inclusion.

  • Anthony Macdonald
The ACCC delayed its decision on Sigma Healthcare’s $8.8 billion merger with Chemist Warehouse several times.

‘Critical milestone’: Chemist Warehouse, Sigma merger clears ACCC hurdle

After several delays, the regulator found the tie-up will not substantially hurt competition, paving the way for the creation of a $28.9 billion sharemarket giant.

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  • Carrie LaFrenz
Jack Gance and Mario Verrocchi are set to storm onto the ASX boards.

$30b Chemist Warehouse deal seals founders’ legacy. Now for the hard bit

Jack Gance and Mario Verrocchi have built one of Australia’s great retail brands. Bringing it into a listed environment is a fresh challenge.

  • James Thomson
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PM calls Trump; Chemist Warehouse to merge; NAB arrears surge

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

October

Mario Verrocchi started the Chemist Warehouse business in the 1990s.

Inside Chemist Warehouse’s bid to reverse its $150m retail media slide

The pharmacy giant’s advertising and media business made $640 million two years ago, but has fallen each year since.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
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Chemist Warehouse is a dominant pharmacy chain, and has proposed merging with Sigma Healthcare.

Pharmacy lobby says Chemist Warehouse concessions are ‘tokenistic’

The influential industry group is urging the competition regulator to reject an $8.8 billion merger with Sigma Healthcare. A decision is due early next month.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
John Cullity, CEO Ebos Group, says the Sigma-Chemist Warehouse merger will weaken the independent pharmacies.

Ebos CEO takes swing at $8.8b Chemist Warehouse-Sigma deal

The chief executive of the pharmacy group behind TerryWhite Chemmart says the merger, being assessed by the competition regulator, would harm the health network.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
Jack Gance, chairman and co-founder of Chemist Warehouse.

Chemist Warehouse goes to war with card fees – using QR codes

The pharmacy and retailing giant pays $15 million in transaction costs every year. Now it has signed on to a new NAB-backed system that circumvents them.

  • James Eyers
The ACCC has delayed its decision on Sigma Healthcare’s $8.8 billion merger with Chemist Warehouse until November.

Sigma shares surge as it offers concessions for Chemist Warehouse deal

The pharmacy retailer and wholesaler says its franchisees will be allowed to leave without being penalised if it secures the $8.8 billion merger.

  • Updated
  • Michael Smith

September

Vikesh Ramsunder, CEO of Sigma Healthcare, expects the ACCC to make a call on its merger with Chemist Warehouse on October 24.

ACCC call on Sigma, Chemist Warehouse $8.8b tie-up due in four weeks

Merger plans are tracking in line with expectations, with the competition watchdog to make a final decision on October 24 after a previous delay.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

August

Bunnings is making plans to launch its own retail media business.

Wesfarmers wants slice of retail media boom for Bunnings, Officeworks

The hardware and stationery giants have plans to enter the novel sector, joining Woolworths and Coles.

  • Carrie LaFrenz and Sam Buckingham-Jones
Chemist Warehouse is expected to sell off part of its store network to convince the ACCC that the merger will not lead to higher prices for consumers.

Competition regulator delays $8.8b Chemist Warehouse deal approval

The ACCC is undertaking more analysis of the transaction, which would merge the pharmacy giant into Sigma Healthcare. A decision won’t be made until October.

  • Michael Smith

July

Airlie’s Will Granger.

How Airlie’s Granger got his small-cap fund off to a cracking start

Portfolio manager Will Granger has more than doubled the benchmark with his new Small Companies Fund. He is now backing this little-known retailer stock.

  • Sarah Jones
Chemist Warehouse has an uphill battle to get its merger with Sigma Healthcare passed the ACCC.

Hedge fund takes Barrenjoey to task over Chemist Warehouse deal

Faced with competition regulator concerns, Wickhams Hill reckons Chemist Warehouse is far more likely to pursue a traditional IPO than sell stores.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Chemist Warehouse has been against restrictions on pharmacy locations and ownership, saying they are inconsistent with attempts to provide cheaper medicines.

Pharmacies face an ‘Uber’ moment – whether they like it or not

Stephen King, who led a Health Department review into the sector, says antiquated ownership restrictions should be abolished before they do more damage.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
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Baby Bunting CEO Mark Teperson is hoping to double higher margin private label sales to 20 per cent of total revenue.

Baby Bunting plots expansion on the back of HMC’s property portfolio

The retailer fell on tough times but its new CEO is expanding the network into fresh areas with smaller formats and exclusive products.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

June

Chemist Warehouse have an uphill battle to get its merger with Sigma Healthcare passed the ACCC.

Barrenjoey says ACCC overplaying Chemist Warehouse’s supply risks

The broker has told clients that the competition regulator has ignored independent wholesaler CH2 when warning the deal will mean less drug supply competition.

  • Carrie LaFrenz and Jemima Whyte
Deal maker: Sigma’s largest shareholder, HMC’s David Di Pilla - and a cousin of Chemist Warehouse’s Mario Verrocchi - and ACCC chairwoman Gina Cass-Gottlieb.

Chemist Warehouse may have to sell stores to save merger

Chemist Warehouse may have to sell off part of its store network to convince the competition regulator that plans to merge with Sigma would not lessen competition and lead to higher prices.

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  • Carrie LaFrenz and Tom Richardson
Chemist Warehouse’s deal to list via Sigma Healthcare is part way through an ACCC merger review.

Chemist Warehouse deal can still get past ACCC health check

The issue of the competitiveness of Sigma’s pharmacies may require a more direct solution, such as disposing of a few Chemist Warehouse outlets.

  • Updated
  • James Thomson

Competition concerns stalk Chemist Warehouse’s $8.8b Sigma deal

A Singaporean hedge fund warns the “smart money was playing dumb” on a deal that means the merged group will be the only major player in Darwin and control 68 per cent of Melbourne’s market.

  • Jemima Whyte and Jonathan Shapiro

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