This Month
Rare Argyle pink diamond up for grabs at half the price
The 0.94-carat diamond comes from a private, unnamed collector and is expected to sell for between $700,000 and $800,000.
- Lauren Sams
Australia’s best beachside boutiques
Forget malls. When you’re at the seaside you want to discover treasure, and these stores deliver. BYO sandy feet.
- Lauren Sams
The luxury bubble is bursting and not even Cettire is safe
Prestige fashion is in a state of crisis as sales plunge and stocks pile up. For Cettire, which has operated in the grey market, this is its moment of truth.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Jonathan Shapiro
‘We know over 500 customers’ are searching for it’: the big changes coming to DJs
Although shoppers remain cautious, Scott Fyfe and Anchorage Capital are hoping their $250 million revamp will keep consumers spending.
- Carrie LaFrenz
July
- Exclusive
- Retail
Woolworths Holdings brings in BCG to slash costs at Country Road
Country Road – which operates its eponymous brand along with Mimco, Trenery, Witchery and Politix – has been controlled by the South African group since 1998.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
There’s an $8b business quietly growing inside Wesfarmers
In 2008, Kmart was on its knees. But a trip to the United Kingdom turned into the company’s greatest success – Anko, the home brand with big growth plans.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz
Clothes shopping a tedious bore? Check this place out
Christian Kimber has gone to considerable lengths to make his new CBD flagship an easy place to be.
- Lauren Sams
- Exclusive
- Retail
Bassike third local fashion business to lose a co-founder this year
Bassike co-founder Mary Lou Ryan is leaving the business she helped create.
- Lauren Sams
Not an outlet store: how fashion brands are making discounting cool
With the opening of a new “luxury discount” precinct in Sydney, local retailers are trying to make sales fashionable.
- Lauren Sams
General Pants Co’s dispute with creditor ‘resolved’
A winding-up application against the youth fashion retailer, owned by Richard Facioni’s Alquemie Group, is expected to be dismissed on Wednesday.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Analysis
- Retail
Can Bob East finally find a woman to sit on Cettire’s board?
The addition of investment banker Jon Gidney last week – the first to be added to the board since it listed on the ASX – only highlights the company’s needs.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Blundy’s Accent Group plots overseas expansion with Nude Lucy
The move would be the first time that the company, better known for its shoe brands including Platypus and The Athlete’s Foot, has operated in another market.
- Carrie LaFrenz
Why Millennials will pay $1000 for your old shirts
Forty years after the launch of Mambo, young Australians are again obsessed with the brand.
- Lucy Dean
Why sneaker king Nike was kicked into an $18b black hole
The world’s largest sportswear maker is in crisis following a disastrous restructuring, and as its sneakers lose some of their cultural cachet.
- Sara Germano
- Retail Winner
- Sustainability Leaders
Customers love this cool solution to getting rid of old fridges
Winning Group brand Appliances Online has stopped 80,000 tonnes of electronics and appliances from being dumped in landfill, earning the company top spot in the Retail category.
- Gus McCubbing
The co-CEOs who learned the secret to business from ... pasta
Shaun Greenblo and Elliot Midalia are managing directors at Boody, a bamboo-based clothing company. They both meditate – in their own way – before office hours.
- Lauren Sams
June
How fashion and beauty are cashing in on the Olympics
The 2024 Games are being called “the fashion Olympics”, and Australian brands are muscling in on the action.
- Lauren Sams
Cettire CFO facing multimillion tax bill on ‘worthless’ share options
Tim Hume is one of the biggest casualties of a slump in the luxury retail platform’s share price. He faces a large tax bill, while his options are out of the money.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Jonathan Shapiro
Brokers turn on Cettire after profit downgrade
The company’s shares fell again on Tuesday as analysts doubted whether a soft luxury market was the only cause of its dramatic downgrade.
- Jonathan Shapiro and Carrie LaFrenz
- Retail Winner
- Women in Leadership
‘You need to trust your gut’: How to build an empire
The founder and CEO of MCo Beauty, the winner of the Retail category, knows she is underestimated. It’s what drives her to succeed.
- Lauren Sams
