Australia’s richest man, Anthony Pratt, has bunkered down in his family’s Melbourne mansion where he is working to ramp up production across his Visy cardboard box empire to meet surging demand fuelled by panic grocery buying across the country.
Visy Industries' 5,000-strong Australian employees are working at capacity to produce boxes that encase 70 per cent of the nation’s food and groceries.
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