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Jan Cameron fined $8000 for misleading market over Bellamy’s stake

Once one of the wealthiest women in the country, the Kathmandu founder had been found guilty of hiding her big stake in the baby formula group.

  • Max Mason

December 2023

Jon Adgemis, pictured at the Victoria Derby, left KPMG in 2019 and launched a pub empire.

Prominent rag trade family pursued ex-KPMG dealmaker Jon Adgemis

Monaco-based Richard Gazal has taken the businessman, who now runs Public Hospitality Group, to court. Adgemis says the matter has almost been resolved.

  • Primrose Riordan
Jan Cameron (middle) with supporters at Hobart Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

Jan Cameron guilty of misleading market by hiding Bellamy’s stake

The judgment was delivered more than two years after the hearing which ran for two weeks through October and November 2021.

  • Max Mason and Carrie LaFrenz

April 2023

Jan Cameron is among a group of noteholders who will become the new owners of Tribe Brewing.

Big haircut for Tribe Brewing creditors, new owners to take control

Creditors to the craft brewer which collapsed five weeks ago have voted in favour of a deal that gives them 5.3¢ in the dollar.

  • Simon Evans
Woodlands comes with a restored Georgian homestead, built in 1829

Jan Cameron adds Bruny Island rural gem to huge Tasmanian portfolio

The Kathmandu founder will add the Woodlands estate at the northern tip of Bruny Island to huge swathes of real estate she already owns on Tasmania’s north-east coast.

  • Larry Schlesinger
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Jan Cameron, a founder of the Kathmandu outdoor clothing brand, is a key player in a group of noteholders who have put forward a buyout proposal for the failed Tribe Brewing.

Tribe Brewing creditors to get 5.3¢ in the dollar in buyout plan

Ambitious dreams, machinery failure and COVID-19 were behind the collapse of the craft brewer and creditors are set to take a big haircut.

  • Simon Evans

October 2022

Eva Barrett, Kathmandu chief customer officer and Robert Fry, Kathmandu GM of product, say there is a big opportunity with millennial shoppers.

Kathmandu looks beyond Boomers to Millennial outdoor enthusiasts

The retailer wants to open ten flagship stores overseas as it seeks a larger slice of the $US300 billion ($475 billion) outdoor/active market.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

July 2022

Jan Cameron and the ATO have withdrawn their court battle.

Jan Cameron, ATO walk back from public court fight over Bellamy’s sale

It is unclear whether the parties resolved the matter or are still in dispute outside of court.

  • Max Mason and Carrie LaFrenz

May 2022

Jan Cameron arrives at the Hobart Magistrates Court with her lawyers on the first day of her ASIC trial in October 2021.

Jan Cameron fights ATO over tax on Bellamy’s sale

The Tasmanian businesswoman is fighting to have a court rule on whether a Caribbean-based trust that offloaded shares in baby formula company Bellamy’s Australia can ignore capital gains tax.

  • Max Mason and Carrie LaFrenz

April 2022

Jon Adgemis and Jan Cameron.

Inside the falling out between the rock-star banker and eco-warrior

Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron and her adviser, Jon Adgemis, were one of Australia’s oddest friendships. After a decade, they had a vicious falling out. Why?

  • Carrie LaFrenz and Max Mason

March 2022

Millionaire businesswoman Jan Cameron is an investor at TasFoods.

Jan Cameron chips in for TasFoods’ $5.5m raise

Dairy and poultry manufacturer and retailer TasFoods was fronting investors with a $5.5 million two-tranche placement on Wednesday morning.

  • Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood

November 2021

Jan Cameron’s legal team is making closing arguments in ASIC’s case against her.

Jan Cameron had to be aware of details to disclose holding

ASIC has failed to prove Jan Cameron’s awareness or control over a complex scheme designed to keep a shareholding in Bellamy’s Australia private, her lawyers say.

  • Max Mason
Jan Cameron has faced a criminal case brought by ASIC.

Cameron ‘should have revealed Bellamy’s link’ even without details

Lawyer makes final arguments in ASIC’s case that she failed to disclose her connections to Black Prince Private Foundation, the biggest investor in Bellamy’s.

  • Max Mason

October 2021

Jon Adgemis was formerly KPMG's king of deals and adviser to Jan Cameron.

Document was altered after my signature: Jon Adgemis

The prosecution led by Lincoln Crowley QC rounded out the corporate watchdog’s witnesses on Monday in the criminal trial brought against Jan Cameron.

  • Carrie LaFrenz and Max Mason
Former adviser to Jan Cameron, Jon Adgemis, established Black Prince in 2012.

ASIC’s star witness in Jan Cameron case scant on details

Jon Adgemis says he was not involved in the formation of a company that lent money to Black Prince – the largest investor in Bellamy’s Australia.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
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Jan Cameron arrives at the Hobart Magistrates Court with her lawyers on the first day of her ASIC trial.

ASIC says Black Prince was ‘revived’ to hold Jan Cameron’s holding in Bellamy’s  

The prosecution alledges that a Malaysian company lent money to Black Prince on certain terms, which were changed after the listing of the baby formula player on the ASX.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron’s ASIC trial is due to start this week and could last up to four weeks.

Snap lockdown delays Jan Cameron criminal hearing

The founder of Kathmandu retail pleaded not guilty to charges laid by ASIC which alleges she failed to disclose her links to the Black Prince Private Foundation.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

July 2021

Jan Cameron is in a legal fight over $5.5 million with Nature One Dairy.

Jan Cameron’s $5.5m legal battle with Nature One Dairy

The Tasmanian entrepreneur was the key backer of the baby formula group and claims it owes her for redeemed convertible notes and interest after a falling out.

  • Carrie LaFrenz

June 2021

Pooley in the Coal River Valley, Tasmania.

McBain sells shares in Cameron-backed TasFoods

There’s nothing sleepy about the Tasmanian corporate world, where boardroom battles are surfacing once again.

  • Tom Richardson

May 2021

Jan Cameron.

Jan Cameron back nibbling at Tassie food industry

A director at Jan Cameron-backed TasFoods received a 49.5 per cent no vote last week, with its chairman forced out the door last June.

  • Tom Richardson

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