This Month
Orora drops on soft volumes as chairman backs buying from PE owners
Rob Sindel rejects talk the company made a dud acquisition when it bought French group Saverglass, saying it had no fears in buying assets from private equity groups.
- Simon Evans
Richard Pratt’s love child free to sue family for slice of the fortune
Paula Hitchcock, 27, is the child of the late packaging billionaire and will be allowed to continue her legal pursuit for access to the family trust.
- Max Mason
Blast from the past: Molycop pins hopes on 2025 IPO
Molycop’s Omaha-based CEO Jim Anderson met with a handful of fund managers in late September, reacquainting them with the idea of an ASX listing.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Royal family
Charles III will find republicans who missed their best chance
The vibrant republican sentiment of the 1980s has been replaced by a dour, downbeat guilt-ridden version in the 2020s.
- John Roskam
- Exclusive
- Manufacturing
Gupta’s steel empire restructures global boards as troubles mount
The conglomerate behind the Whyalla steel mill has lost high-profile directors from its international boards, while a global advisory panel is entirely defunct.
- Kylar Loussikian and Hans van Leeuwen
The town bearing the brunt of Sanjeev Gupta’s financial nightmare
The British industrialist’s steelworks looms over Whyalla, population 21,900. There’s plenty at stake if things go south.
- Simon Evans
Boeing to shed 17,000 jobs as financial woes deepen
The aviation giant will slash 10 per cent of its workforce amid mounting losses, manufacturing disruptions and a month-long machinists strike.
- Taylor Telford
Macquarie’s venture division plugs into manufacturing platform Atelier
Macquarie director Jonathan Lay led the deal, putting a term sheet in front of Atelier within four weeks of it being in-market.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Project Crescent: Ellerston taps into WA’s wheat belt with agri bet
The deal terms mean it can force an IPO of the leading John Deere agricultural equipment distributor after three years.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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‘The cabin is the driver’s office’ for filters maker Ryco
Ryco’s fine-particle vehicle filters offer a medical-grade ‘face mask for your truck’ – a game changer for the health of commercial transport drivers.
- Sylvia Ramsay
Billionaire Alex Waislitz ensnared in the Real Housewives web
The Rich Lister and his extended family have been in the headlines for decades. His new family wants more.
- Max Mason
September
Why the Pratts are fighting over the family fortune
This week on The Fin podcast, BOSS deputy editor Patrick Durkin and senior reporter Max Mason discuss the legal fight over the Pratt packaging fortune.
Hanwha walks away from $1b pursuit of ASX-listed shipbuilder Austal
The Korean conglomerate has accused the company of making it impossible to conduct due diligence despite four separate approaches since its first last year.
- Kylar Loussikian
Meet Albo’s money-burning EV poster child
Administrators say it’s “likely” the once-fancied Tritium was trading while insolvent since at least July last year.
- Mark Di Stefano
Fluid solutions specialist Banlaw hangs up for-sale sign
Banlaw sells more than 800 types of valves, fittings, couplings, sensors and the like, and is expecting revenue to hit $58 million this financial year.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Books covered for Fletcher Building’s $NZ700m emergency raise
The equity raise represents 37 per cent of the $2 billion company’s shares on issue.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Sanjeev Gupta jets in (and out) of Whyalla
You know what angry suppliers on delayed payment terms love to see? The owner of the whole operation dropping in by private jet.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
GFG Alliance’s bills mount as the Whyalla Steelworks begins to strain
The South Australian government says it is important not to “create a panic” even as some suppliers to the Sanjeev Gupta-run business lodge default notices.
- Simon Evans and Elouise Fowler
Listed manufacturing player Amaero upsizes raise
The company’s initial ask was for $20 million, but it received bids for nearly $45 million, sources said.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
