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El Jannah’s chief marketing officer, Adam Issa, with some of its food.

‘We are not selling out’: El Jannah’s new investor is a $180 billion US giant

The wildly popular Lebanese chicken chain has a deep-pocketed new backer to help it conquer Australia, and then its cultural motherland, Lebanon.

  • Jessica Yun

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The pace of life is slower in Kamiyama, but the town has remade its identity as a hub for creatives and nature lovers.

The smart decision 20 years ago that saved a Japanese town

Where others have withered, this mountain town has reinvented itself as a refuge for Tokyo’s entrepreneurs and artists - thanks to one smart decision.

  • Lisa Visentin
Index image for Care A2 milk story

How baby formula investors became entangled with shady financial firms and organised crime

The company was on the cusp of a cash bonanza and ready to float on the Australian Stock Exchange. Now batches of its product are set to be sold at a pittance to go into pet food.

  • Harriet Alexander
Gen Alpha workers are now starting to enter the workforce.

Gen Alpha are entering the workforce. Here’s what they want

It only feels like yesterday that a new generation entered the workforce, but it’s time we all got ready for a brand-new wave of workers.

  • Tim Duggan
Clove founder and former Canva head of content Anna Guerrero.

A WA journalism graduate’s journey from radio to Canva, then pasta – and back to tech

Anna Guerrero’s serpentine career path is a testament to the power of going with the flow.

  • Hamish Hastie
Frozen yoghurt chain Yo-Chi is coming of age.

Yo-Chi goes global: Cult favourite frozen yoghurt chain is growing up

The fast-growing Australian frozen dessert business is testing the waters in Singapore – but doesn’t want to look like it’s getting too big.

  • Jessica Yun
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Burgtec chief operating officer Michael Blatchford in some of the furniture designed and built for the Western Sydney Airport.

Best seats in the house: New airport brings comfort to the economy class

It could be the ultimate democratisation of air travel: Seats near departure gates that are as soft and upholstered as those in the posh private club lounges.

  • Julie Power
Norwegian-born beauty entrepreneur Gry Susann Tomte.

Beauty clinic founder pays tribute to husband found stabbed to death outside luxury home

Gry Susann Tomte, the Norwegian-born founder of Melbourne-based HÜD luxury beauty clinics, described her husband Zdravko (Zed) Bilic as “the kindest, gentlest person” who was “loved by everyone”.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
Vow’s “Forged Gras”, a cell-cultivate fois gras served with pickled grapes and a sea parsley oil.

Lab-grown meat just became legal. Is it any good?

Cell-grown, cultivated meat, whatever you call it – Sydney start-up Vow has become the first to secure regulatory approval to sell it in Australia.

  • Jessica Yun and Frances Howe
Jack Zhang, the CEO of Airwallex, has brushed off criticism of its governance and company culture as it looks to hire a big new group of Aussie software engineers.

The 40-year-old Australian billionaire who once worked in a petrol station

Seven years ago, Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang walked away from what looked like the deal of a lifetime. It looks like it was a good decision.

  • Emily Mason

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