December 2022
Ex-Myer CEO Bernie Brookes saves The Daily Edited
Mr Brookes has rescued the leather accessories chain, adding to his handbags and jewellery business, Colette by Colette Hayman.
- Carrie LaFrenz
April 2021
Retailers set to raise prices as shipping, commodity costs soar
Prices are set to rise on products ranging from imported food to clothing, footwear, furniture, hardware and toys following a surge in shipping costs.
- Sue Mitchell
Retail resurrection: how Colette, Koko Black and Big Girls were saved
There is life for retailers after administration, as the rebirth of these three key consumer brands demonstrates.
- Sue Mitchell
March 2021
Dotz Nano corrects chief Bernie Brookes ... on 15 counts
Due to a ‘breakdown in the company’s internal communication process’, the ex-Myer chief gave shareholders the wrong idea, on more than a dozen fronts.
- Myriam Robin
October 2020
Small cap authentication tech outfits launch raisings
There were two security authentication technology businesses competing for the attention of small cap fund managers on Thursday.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
Bernie Brookes' Funtastic poised for acquisition
The troubled toy wholesaler, which is headed by the former Myer chief, is on the verge of merging with toy retailer Hobby Warehouse.
- Sue Mitchell
September 2020
Ex-Myer CEO Bernie Brookes rescues Colette
Mr Brookes says it's a "contrarian investment" but the slimmed-down fashion accessories retailer can rise again. "I know what I'm getting into."
- Simon Evans
October 2019
- Analysis
- Class action
Plaintiffs take one for the class actions team
The big takeaway from the case is that market-based causation is alive and well. That's the bit that encouraged the litigation funders on Thursday, even if Justice Beach didn't lay down strict markers.
- Michael Pelly
Ten years on the Myer float still rankles
Myer shareholders are still rankled over the department store chain's $2.3 billion float 10 years ago.
- Sue Mitchell
September 2019
Bernie Brookes continues his Myer delusion
Brookes laments that Myer is “at the whim of the shopping centre owners who have them entwined in long-term leases.” He’d know, having signed most of them.
- Joe Aston
July 2019
'I've done my due diligence' - Bernie Brookes to chair Funtastic
Former Myer chief Bernie Brookes is confident Funtastic, which is now worth about $10 million compared with $500 million at its peak, can be turned around.
- Sue Mitchell