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Why Dan Murphy’s boss was almost sacked on his first day
As he celebrates three decades working at Dan Murphy’s, the Endeavour Group chief executive is ready for more direct feedback from his critics.
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Steve Donohue was almost sacked on his first day at Dan Murphy’s.
The chief executive of Endeavour Group, who now oversees 276 Dan Murphy’s stores and 354 pubs, joined the bottle shop in 1994 when it had just two stores in inner Melbourne, and was still run by founder Daniel Murphy and his right-hand numbers man, Tony Leon.
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