Tagged: Founders
7 articles we've published with this tag.
Dick Smith: the electronics man who kept reinventing himselfDick Smith built three separate ventures on cheek, timing and publicity, long before the retail chain bearing his name collapsed under other owners.By Margaret Fenwick
Solomon Lew: the rag trader who fought Coles Myer to a standstillSolomon Lew built Premier Investments from Melbourne's garment trade and spent decades in the Coles Myer boardroom wars. Here's the record, plainly told.By Margaret Fenwick
Nathan Tinkler: from coal billionaire to bankruptNathan Tinkler went from Hunter Valley electrician to billionaire to bankrupt in about a decade. Here is how one leveraged coal bet unravelled.By Margaret Fenwick
Gerry Harvey: the salesman who built a property empireGerry Harvey built Harvey Norman from Norman Ross into a retail chain and property empire. The franchise model, the controversies and the founder.By Margaret Fenwick
Lindsay Fox: the truckie who built a logistics empireLindsay Fox left school at fifteen and built Linfox into a private logistics giant. Here is how the Fitzroy truckie held it together for six decades.By Margaret Fenwick
Alan Bond: the sign-writer who lost everythingAlan Bond went from Perth sign-writing to the America's Cup, Nine and a Van Gogh, then prison. The full arc of the Alan Bond rise and collapse.By Margaret Fenwick
Frank Lowy and Westfield: the refugee who remade the mallFrank Lowy went from a Blacktown deli to a global Westfield empire. Here is how the refugee built it, and why the timing of the sale looks so sharp.By Margaret Fenwick