February 2023
Numbers always lie at Tabcorp, Domino’s, Adore Beauty
There’s no time like earnings season for the crystallisation of broken promises.
- Joe Aston
July 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Tabcorp finally listens to shareholders
Activist shareholders have finally got what they want – a demerger of the lotteries business. But questions remain about whether they will be better off.
- Tony Boyd
September 2020
The Tabcorp school of shareholder management
If shareholders vote down an LTI grant to its outgoing chief, Tabcorp will just pay him in cash.
- Myriam Robin
August 2020
Tabcorp to slash costs as pandemic forces $600m raising
The lotteries and wagering group will raise funds and embark on a three-year cost-cutting program after a 30 per cent fall in 2020 profits.
- James Thomson
$1b hit says Tabcorp's retail channel won't bounce back
Tabcorp's full-year underlying profit will fall more than 31 per cent as it weighs the long-term damage caused by COVID-19 to its retail business.
- Updated
- James Thomson
July 2020
Investors pushed for change ahead of Tabcorp retirements
Unhappy investors wrote to Tabcorp's board just weeks before Thursday's announcements of the retirement of chairman Paula Dwyer and CEO David Attenborough.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
New Tabcorp bosses can bet on demerger debate
Paula Dwyer and David Attenborough struck a brilliant deal to grab Tatts Group's lotteries business. But the division's success has created a new challenge.
- James Thomson
Wylie backs new Tabcorp chair to find CEO
Tabcorp chief executive David Attenborough will leave the lotteries and wagering giant next year, following chairman Paula Dwyer into retirement.
- Updated
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Seize lockdown lessons to live with COVID flare-ups
Melbourne is getting on with life under its new lockdown. But now is the time to decide how we'll live with future COVID flare-ups.
- James Thomson
June 2020
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Tabcorp chief praises Narev's skills push
David Attenborough, who sits on the BCA's skills working group, says the time is right for the reform push being led by Seek executive Ian Narev.
- James Thomson
Why Tabcorp wants punters back in the pub
Monday marks the reopening of Tabcorp's outlets in pubs, clubs and standalone agencies. The company, and the racing industry, needs these venues to bounce back.
- James Thomson
November 2019
At the Cup, camera-shyness the order of the day
Though of course, not everyone cares what shareholders or inner-city types think.
- Myriam Robin and James Thomson
Bizoids and politicians race for cover in soaked Birdcage
As the rain poured down on a quieter-than-usual Birdcage enclosure on Derby Day, the real action was indoors.
- James Thomson and Myriam Robin
October 2019
Tabcorp AGM worries fade, but tensions remain
Wagering and lotteries giant Tabcorp should avoid a second strike, and its chairman is safe, but the pressure on the board remains.
- James Thomson