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Marcus Blackmore

October 2023

Joe Aston’s farewell card.

Joe Aston’s farewell column

After 12 years of writing Rear Window, my reward was the belly laughs I got to share with AFR readers as, again and again, we denuded the most fantastic pretenders in the nation.

  • Joe Aston

August 2023

Marcus Blackmore will sit on the $334 million he is about to receive from Kirin in the Blackmores takeover, for at least six months.

Blackmore happy to be the Col Sanders of vitamins after $334m payday

The company’s largest shareholder says he’ll wait for six months before deploying the $334 million coming to him from the Kirin buyout.

  • Simon Evans

April 2023

Social media comedians The Inspired Unemployed are best known as the figureheads for low-carb Better Beer, but have also been used by Swisse to tap into the Millennials market.

Swisse creeps up on Blackmores as comedians lure Millennials

Comedians The Inspired Unemployed have given extra grunt to Swisse, which aims to topple Blackmores as vitamins market leader.

  • Simon Evans
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price leads one of the groups opposing the Voice.

Jacinta Price takes the Barnaby Joyce route

Well, aren’t things just looking super-promising for the federal opposition?

  • Joe Aston
Marcus Blackmore has been critical of the board of Blackmores, where he is the largest shareholder.

Blackmores suitor revealed as Japanese giant; will another follow?

The discussions did not proceed partly because there were fears about relations with China and concerns about the high price needed to be paid for the company.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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February 2023

Marcus Blackmore was chairman of the company for 44 years from 1973 to 2017.

Why Marcus Blackmore is voting no on the Voice

The vitamin mogul says he’s been convinced by Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and thinks Anthony Albanese needs a better salesman.

  • Tom McIlroy

December 2022

Marcus Blackmore at Bayview on Sydney’s northern beaches.

Why the biggest shareholder in Blackmores is headed to Dubbo

A “bloody rocket” from 97-year-old shareholder Jack Poyner helped re-engage Marcus Blackmore with his eponymous company after the previous board froze him out.

  • Simon Evans

October 2021

Blackmores chairman Anne Templeman-Jones was comfortably re-elected at the AGM on Wednesday, despite Marcus Blackmore, pictured, voting against her.

Blackmores fiasco looks like rolling on

This should’ve been the easiest deal for both sides to do. Instead, it was a circus.

  • Joe Aston
Blackmores is starting to show improvement in its margins.

The penny drops in Blackmores AGM fight

It is finally apparent why the Blackmores board is steadfastly opposed to a new director being parachuted into their midst by Marcus Blackmore.

  • Joe Aston
Marcus Blackmore at home in Bayview on Sydney's northern beaches.

Blackmores not playing happy families

Just like in a session of family therapy, the patriarch is talking past and around the issue he really has.

  • Joe Aston

May 2020

Marcus Blackmore's luxury home in Bayview on Sydney's northern beaches.

Blackmores steadies the ship

The largest shareholder in Australia's biggest vitamins company is positioning for the future on many fronts.

  • Simon Evans and Carrie LaFrenz

October 2019

Blackmores chief executive Alastair Symington

New Blackmores CEO vows to reboot flat Australia

CEO Alastair Symington says glucosamine prices are up by 25 per cent as the cost of raw materials and taking over a tablet factory become a short-term drag.

  • Simon Evans
Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand starred in the movie A Star Is Born in 1976.

Rich Lister rock: Singo's singalong with Kris Kristofferson

Rich Listers don't die – they just fly in 83-year-old rockers.

  • Fiona Carruthers

August 2019

Marcus Blackmore holds 23.1 per cent of the vitamins maker.

Marcus Blackmore in $400 million wipeout

A fading China vitamins miracle has been difficult to swallow for the largest shareholder in Blackmores in the past 12 months.

  • Simon Evans
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Blackmores hit by China pain as daigou depart

Many small daigou traders who were buying up big volumes of vitamins from Australian retailers to sell online in China have vanished.

  • Simon Evans
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July 2019

Blackmores has ridden the ups and downs of the Chinese economy in recent years.

Blackmores picks CEO for changing Chinese market

Blackmores has soared and sunk on Chinese demand, which makes its new CEO's on-the-ground experience crucial.

  • James Thomson
Blackmores new CEO Alastair Symington, who will start on October 1.

Blackmores hires Coty's Alastair Symington as CEO

The new boss of the vitamins group once ran the Great Wall of China marathon and faces a tough road in driving growth in Asia as he exits from cosmetics.

  • Simon Evans

May 2019

Blackmores executive director Marcus Blackmore with his dogs Rocky and Spike at Bilgola Beach. Mr Blackmore features on the 'just missed' list of the 2019 Financial Review Rich List.

The Rich Listers who aren't quite so rich any more

The record cut-off of $472 million for Financial Review Rich List 2019 means some stalwart names no longer rank among Australia's 200 richest people.

  • Michael Bailey

April 2019

Marcus Blackmore has had a painful time when it comes to personal wealth.

Why Marcus Blackmore has a confession to make

Marcus Blackmore is $500 million poorer on paper after a Blackmores fall from favour but remains stoic about the future.

  • Simon Evans
Blackmores interim chief executive Marcus Blackmore: "I don't think we chopped them out. They chopped us out.''

Why Marcus Blackmore says the company shot itself in the foot

'Unless we can grow the top line we're buggered in the long run': That's the blunt assessment from Blackmores interim CEO Marcus Blackmore

  • Simon Evans

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