June 2024
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- Luxury property
Power couple creates Brisbane’s most expensive family compound
Prominent Brisbane couple Steve and Jane Wilson have bought the property next door to their recently restored landmark home Lamb House.
- Bonnie Campbell
March 2024
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- Queensland residential property
‘Super home’ built without a budget lists with no price guide
Founder of Vita Group Maxine Horne has listed her designer New Farm home, while across the Brisbane River a resort-style offering will test Hawthorne’s record.
- Bonnie Campbell
February 2021
Unflappable: Vita Group’s Maxine Horne
At the news 90 per cent of its turnover will evaporate by June 2025, Vita was admirably sanguine.
- Joe Aston
Vita, JB Hi-Fi under pressure as Telstra takes back control of stores
Telstra’s decision to take back full control of its 337 retail stores threatens revenues at Vita Group and could increase competition for JB Hi-Fi.
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- Sue Mitchell
October 2020
Where to chase dividends outside large caps
Investors looking to make the most of a shrinking payout pool are starting to search outside the top 100. These are the small- and mid-cap stocks fundies like.
- William McInnes
April 2019
Buy, hold, sell: Bravura, Soul Patts, Magellan, Macquarie
Matthew Kidman, Roger Montgomery and Matthew Booker look at shares that have gained some serious momentum.
August 2017
iSelect's Damien Waller does his best 'Maxine Horne of Vita Group' impression
Not even Paul Buys' buy recommendation could help iSelect on Wednesday.
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- Joe Aston
November 2016
Maxine Horne shifts Vita cash into Jacob Mitchell LIC Antipodes
The Fone Zone founder has withdrawn $90 million this year, right before its Telstra-inspired crash.
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- Joe Aston
December 2014
Baillieu Holst backs ‘hold’ on Vita Group
Baillieu Holst research analyst Josh Kannourakis has a “hold” recommendation on Vita Group and a $1.35 a share price target after a strong trading update from the electronics and telecommunications retailer.
- Elise Shaw
October 2014
Vita Group (VTG)
Baillieu Holst has moved to a “hold “ on Vita Group and a price target of $1.15 a share after the electronics and telecommunications retailer released a plan to pay special dividends over coming years.
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- Elise Shaw
December 2012
Next Byte’s Apple surprise
If you had a crystal ball in 1995, you might have bought shares in Apple – or perhaps founded a company like Next Byte to specialise in selling Apple products.
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- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
September 2012
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Allphones sale bodes well for Vita
Brokers are keeping an eye on shares of Vita Group, Telstra’s biggest mobile dealer, after Canada’s GLENTEL bought 83 per cent of Allphones for $70.6 million on Wednesday.
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- Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald
January 2012
Vita’s looking vital
Vita Group has announced that it expects to achieve earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation of $6.6 million for the first half of 2011-12, a substantial increase on the previous corresponding period.
- Trevor Hoey
October 2009
Ringing up more sales
Mobile phone retailer Vita Group is hoping for improved sales this year as it pushes ahead with new store openings and franchise agreements. Shares in the group, formerly called Fone Zone, are up about 93 per cent this year and up 68 per cent since r...
- Peter Wells
Vita Group (VTG)
Mobile phone retailer Vita Group is hoping for an improvement in sales this year as it pushes ahead with new store openings and franchise agreements
- Peter Wells
August 2009
Briefs
Vita tweaks forecast Vita Group, formerly known as Fone Zone, said its unaudited results showed earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation were better than it had forecast because of accounting treatments on warranties
- Tracy Lee and Jeffrey Hutton
November 2008
Big bucks for executives at the small end of town
As shareholders vote down the big executive pay packets of top 100 giants like Boral and Transurban, spare a thought for the investors in Raw Capital Partners, a Brisbane-based information technology and corporate advisory firm.
- John Stensholt and Damon Kitney
Vita Group (VTG)
In the past twelve months, the share price of Fone Zone, now trading as Vita Group, has fallen from about 85¢ to a 12-month low of 18¢.
- Trevor Hoey
October 2008
Vita Group ready to ring in the changes
Plans include almost doubling outlets by the end of next financial year,writes Julian Bajkowski.
- Julian Bajkowski