The Chanticleer column has charted the highs and lows of corporate Australia since 1974. Here are a few of the highlights.
For 50 years, the Chanticleer column has charted the highs and lows of corporate Australia, taking readers inside the boardroom to meet the heroes, rogues and powerbrokers of business, finance and markets.launches a takeover for David Jones, the first in a string of audacious corporate raids that later included Woolworths and Safeway, and stakes in ANZ, Westpac and BHP.
Wesfarmers buys hardware chain Bunnings for a paltry $163 million. Chanticleer columnist Ivor Ries declares: “Memo Wesfarmers shareholders: time to crack open the champagne.”Westpac teeters under the weight of commercial property bad debts, and is forced into an emergency capital raising during which Kerry Packer nabs a stake.
The collapse of Wall Street icons Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns heralds the start of the Global Financial Crisis.Market operator ASX Limited is forced to abandon its disastrous project to upgrade the market’s vital clearing and settlement system.After the bruising banking royal commission, the sector can’t escape the headlines. This time the management style of Bank of Queensland CEO George Frazis is in the spotlight.
The inaugural column informed readers about the intricate details of the takeover of Bell Brothers in a deal that marked the first corporate foray by Robert Holmes à Court.The battle for physical world assets shifts to those things that will underpin the digital world in the next 50 years. It will be a bigger battle, and Chanticleer will be there to cover it.is a Chanticleer columnist.
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