LSKD to open Macarthur Square store in Sydney and eyes a new one at Westfield Carindale

With an expected turnover of $100m in 2022-23, Queensland-based activewear brand LSKD has ramped up its store rollout with plans for an eighth bricks-and-mortar outlet. SEE WHERE

Activewear brand LSKD’s bricks-and-mortar expansion continues with the opening of another NSW shop and it’s aiming to open its eighth outlet in Brisbane later this year.

On Saturday it will open the doors to its seventh store at Macarthur Square in Campelltown – south western outskirts of Sydney which will be its third location in NSW, adding to existing stores in Miranda and Bondi Junction.

Our spies tell us it will open another store at Westfield Carindale around September.

A Covid-19 success story Logan-based LSKD was founded in 2007 as a wholesaler before transitioning to e-commerce in 2019. It achieved $50m in global turnover in 2021-22 and in November flagged it was aiming for a 50 per cent increase in 2022-23.

It started pivoting towards a more hybrid model a couple of years ago and as well as having stores in Sydney and Brisbane it also has one in Melbourne and the US.

LSKD founder and chief executive Jason Daniel said he was excited about the opening of the Macarthur Square store and was looking forward to offering an “epic” shopping experience for their Campbelltown community.

LSKD is opening its seventh stores at Macarthur in Sydney's outer south west.

New look for Ray White Commercial

Australasia’s largest real estate group Ray White has unveiled the next chapter of its commercial division with the introduction of RWC.

The repositioning of Ray White Commercial as RWC is designed to highlight the commercial specialists with a unique visual identity to position them in the market as experts across all asset classes.

As part of the repositioning comes an updated visual identity which includes a new name, colour palette, design, look and feel, and is the result of a collaborative discussion within Ray White’s commercial network.

Ray White Group managing director Dan White (illustrated) said RWC was a vital part of the Ray White family and its future.

“We wanted to give a unique identity to our commercial business while remaining connected to the broader Ray White Group,” he said.

“We want to ensure our customers know commercial property is an area where we have the best people who can deliver the best possible outcomes.

“This is an exciting new chapter for us, one that takes all our commercial specialists forward and a first in our 121-year history where we’ve celebrated a core business outside of the master naming convention. We have a new identity, but the fundamentals of what we do will not change.”

Ray White Group managing director Dan White.

Vale Clive Hildebrand

Corporate Queensland is mourning the passing away of renowned mining executive Clive Hildebrand who died on June 25. He was 85.

Born in Gladstone in 1937, he was educated at Yeronga State and Brisbane Grammar Schools, University of Queensland (BE (Mining)) and as Queensland 1960 Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.

In a stellar corporate career that took him around the world he was the managing director of coal company QCT Resources and after retiring 1994, he took up the directorship or chair of a number of public companies including the Sugar R & D Corporation from 1995 to 2002.

He had an ongoing involvement in higher education, latterly with Griffith University as council member for eight years from 1989, honorary professor in business-related schools since 1995, member of the Griffith University Quality Committee during quality audits of Australian universities in the early 1990s.

Hildebrand was also the past national president of the Australian Institute of International Affairs and was also president of the Queensland branch of the AIIA.

Clive Hildebrand in 1996.