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Sam Arnaout has built an empire of pubs, including the Hotel Steyne in Manly.

Former panel beater buys $450m shopping centre in Sydney’s leafy north shore

Panel-beater-turned-billionaire-developer Sam Arnaout has just inked Australia’s largest “neighbourhood” shopping centre sale.

  • Carolyn Cummins

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Inside Shein, the fast-fashion giant extolling ‘the future of retail’

Behind the scenes of its first foray into the Australian fashion industry, with a highly competitive label where appearances are everything.

  • Jessica Yun and Lauren Ironmonger
Big W - Big losses

Kmart is beating up Big W and giving Woolies a major headache

Big W, owned by Woolworths, is losing a lot of money as its range of toys, beauty products and homewares fails to click with shoppers.

  • Elizabeth Knight
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A lobster tale or two

Send for the coppers.

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Rugby league in black and white

While it’s dog days on the hustings.

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Anecdote delivered, by George

Though some strayed from the self-serve option.

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Handy horses use their loaf

While pesky possums run for the hills.

Shein and Temu were both founded in China and are rapidly expanding overseas, including in Australia.

Americans are about to feel the Trump blowtorch of higher prices

A wall of consumer goods once sold from China to the US could be dumped on other markets such as Australia.

  • Elizabeth Knight
T2 Tea chief executive Christelle Young wants tea to get the same reverence coffee enjoys.

The fine-dining faux pas T2 Tea’s boss says is like ‘red wine in a champagne glass’

Tea deserves some of the same reverence that coffee has long enjoyed, T2 chief Christelle Young believes.

  • Jessica Yun
Wittner has been place into administration.

Century-old shoe brand Wittner calls in administrators

The footwear business has more than 20 branded stores in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Gemma Grant

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