$21m salaries, self-made billionaires: Franchise kings and queens of QLD
They range from billionaires to mums and dads who have built up little retail empires. They are Queensland’s world success stories of franchising. FULL LIST
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Red tape costs 13 Brisbane workers their jobs overnight
The boss of a Brisbane dredging firm has labelled it “bureaucracy gone mad” after he was forced to lay off staff because his vessels can’t get safety checks.
Boss behind $45m building firm collapse no show in court
The boss of failed Queensland construction company Cullen Group was a no-show at a court examination into the $45m collapse of his building empire.
Revealed: Final design for new Breakfast Creek bridge
Council has released images of how its proposed Breakfast Creek “green’’ bridge will look. Dates have also been announced for public info sessions. SEE THE DESIGN
Scrap king’s $50m recycling battle
A well-known scrap merchant is lawyering up for a big fight against Ipswich City Council over his plans for a $50m recycling park on the site of a former coal mine.
Blue chip Brisbane real estate doyen closes up shop after 30 years
A real estate agent who’s sold homes in upmarket Ascot and Hamilton for the past 30 years has shut down her well-known shop front.
How one man turned Brisbane firm into $1bn tech giant
A New Zealand-born accountant has transformed a former Brisbane plastics manufacturer into a billion-dollar tech firm and has high hopes for its latest investment.
‘Never saw it coming’: Feud splits $1.3bn family property group
One of Queensland’s biggest privately-owned funds management businesses will be split up after a bitter falling out between the founder and his CEO daughter.
How Afghan vet went from booze and drugs to $4m success
When Troy Methorst left the army after barely escaping with his life in Afghanistan, he descended into a self-destructive cycle of drinking and drugs. He now runs a million-dollar business.
Shops vacated, workforces decimated: Prime Brisbane CBD street now a ghost town
One of the Brisbane CBD’s best known streets, which sits in the shadows of the Tower of Power, has almost a quarter of its shops vacant as businesses struggle while office workers stay at home.
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