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News and interviews on Gap including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Gap launches new Facebook deal programThursday, 17 March 2011
Clothing retailer Gap has launched a new deal on its Facebook page today, urging shoppers to visit the gapmyprice.com site and give offers on what price they believe they should pay. ...
The best & the worst of 2010
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
It has been a long and exhausting year for Australia’s entrepreneurs, who have had to deal with everything from rising interest rates to state and federal elections and a string of high-profiled company collapses. ...
iPad 2.0 rumoured to enter production, release date set for April
Wednesday, 08 December 2010
A new report claims Apple is preparing to begin production of a second iPad, with Foxconn factories in China set to begin work within the next 100 days in preparation of an April release date. ...
Job ads rise 2.9% during November, Inflation gauge heads higher: Economy Roundup
Monday, 06 December 2010
Job advertisements published in newspapers and online rose for a seventh consecutive month in November, according to the ANZ Job Advertisements index. ...
THE BIG PICTURE: Inside our patchy economy
Monday, 06 December 2010
Most people tend to regard the national accounts as just an update on economic growth. But the publication is far more comprehensive than that, covering indicators such as inflation, productivity, savings and wage costs. So from a big picture perspective what ...
Harvey Norman avoids PR disaster, pulls offensive radio ad four hours after Twitter backlash
Wednesday, 01 December 2010
Businesses are being urged to monitor social media to avoid public relations disasters, after an incident over the weekend saw retail giant Harvey Norman sidestep a potential boycott by pulling a radio advertisement only four hours after backlash started appearing ...
Tim Alpe
Wednesday, 01 December 2010
Today we travel across the Tasman to talk to Tim Alpe, the co-founder of travel business Jucy. Tim, who was just named as New Zealand’s Entrepreneur Of the Year, started the business in 2002 with his brother Dan, concentrating on affordable car rentals. Today ...
Franchise duo launch start-up incubator Inkuberra
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Rod Young, founder of DC Strategy, and Simon McNamara, founding shareholder of Grill'd, have launched Inkuberra, a business incubator for fast-growth start-ups. ...
Positive franchise forecast for 2011
Monday, 29 November 2010
Seven in 10 franchisors intend to recruit more franchisees in 2011 as their optimism returns to pre-GFC levels, new research has revealed. ...
Online shopping gears up for Christmas
Monday, 29 November 2010
For almost 10 years now the internet has been going to 'kill' traditional 'bricks and mortar' retailers. The story goes that new, purely online retail brands will set up and they will take away all of the 'pain' of going shopping and we will never again have ...
How I survived when the competition threatened my suppliers
Friday, 26 November 2010
Sharon Turin started Slim Secrets after working as a weight loss coach and eyeing a gap for healthy snack foods. The company is now turning over $1.5 million and is selling its products around the world. ...
Government to crack down on directors that fail to make super payments
Thursday, 25 November 2010
The Government has announced it will extend its director penalties regime to crack down on directors of companies that fail to make super guarantee payments on behalf of employees. ...
Will Australia’s Groupon bubble burst?
Thursday, 25 November 2010
You can call it the great Groupon gold rush. ...
iiNet brings development in-house as new R&D legislation stalls in Senate
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
iiNet, the country's third-largest telecommunications company will establish an in-house research and development division to create new products and "future-proof" the business, managing director Michael Malone announced yesterday. ...
The tricks and traps of earn-out clauses
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
How do you value a business when you are selling up? How do you find a buyer when the banks aren't lending? The earn-out clause – which ties the seller to their business by holding back part of the sale proceeds until certain performance hurdles are met – is ...
Six traps of buying property outside your home market
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
It may seem like the ultimate anti-cyclical investing: Australian investors buying houses in the US for seemingly giveaway prices. But buyer beware. ...
Business given more time to prepare for new consumer laws, but direct selling sector says laws could destroy members
Monday, 22 November 2010
The Australian Government has unveiled new regulations around the second tranche of its new consumer law regime that will give companies up to 12 months to prepare for changes to warranty, repair and unsolicited selling rules that officially come in on January ...
THE BIG PICTURE: Where politics and the markets collide
Monday, 22 November 2010
In the US, investors have been cheering the election result. That may seem odd, given the fact that it appears a recipe for doing nothing – a Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Democrat-controlled Senate and a Democrat in the White House. One study ...
How I saved my business when a client refused to pay
Friday, 19 November 2010
Tony Ryder and Keith Lucas started Resource Equipment in 2003, offering pumping and other types of rental equipment to mining companies and other firms in the oil and gas sectors. Riding on a boom, the company has managed significant growth, with revenue of ...
David Jones sales up in first quarter, Twitter considers new capital raising: Economy Roundup
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Retail giant David Jones has recorded a 3.2% increase in first-quarter sales on a statutory basis, with like-for-like sales up from $452.1 million to $466.6 million in the three months to October 30. ...
