Wake up, Wayne
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Wayne Swan needs to start seriously looking at the issue of bank lending to SMEs. The Opposition's idea of a Parliamentary inquiry has merit.  ...

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Flight Centre and Computershare impress market with profit upgrades
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Flight Centre chief Graham Turner and Computershare founder Chris Morris have seen their personal fortunes soar after their companies announced impressive profit upgrades.  ...

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Flight Centre’s soaring profit shows the real value of customer service: Gottliebsen
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
The big rise in Flight Centre profits do not just reflect an up-tick in the Australian economy. The rise is about old fashioned business strategies that still work in the digital age and about the power of a unique marketing network at a time when there is ...

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Flight Centre chief’s fortune soars as travel outlook improves
Thursday, 19 November 2009
The remarkable rise in the wealth of Flight Centre founder and chief executive Graham Turner continued yesterday as the company's shares hit a 13-month high on news the outlook for the travel sector is improving.  ...

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Rich recoup losses
Monday, 26 October 2009
Meet the comeback kids. A year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset a global equity slump, a group of wealthy Australian investors including James Packer, Kerr Neilson and Gerry Harvey have managed to recoup their losses - and then some.  ...

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Qantas cuts 1750 jobs, slashes profit forecast
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Qantas has slashed its full-year pre-tax profit forecast by 80% and announced it will cut 1750 jobs, while the country's biggest travel agency Flight Centre also says it will cut staff.  ...

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Graham Turner hits turbulence
Wednesday, 08 April 2009
Any entrepreneur who leads a public company knows that their fortune is subject to the vagaries of the giant lotto machine we call the sharemarket.  ...

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Flight Centre profit to fall by $100 million
Wednesday, 08 April 2009
Travel agency Flight Centre has warned that its full-year net profit will slump to between $36 million to $44 million after the company revealed $60 million in losses from its US business Liberty Travel.  ...

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The year the rich would rather forget
Friday, 12 December 2008
The year 2008 may well go down in history as the year Australia’s richest investors lost their mojo. JAMES THOMSON tracks the downward spiral, and measures the rich top 30’s rate of leakage. ...

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Flight Centre expands bike business
Tuesday, 02 September 2008
Flight Centre has decided to form a bicycle joint venture with 99 Bikes ...

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Intrepid Travel forms joint venture with Flight Centre
Tuesday, 05 August 2008
Melbourne-based adventure travel company Intrepid Travel has formed a joint venture with listed travel company Flight Centre to expand Intrepid’s retail chain. ...

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Flight Centre lifts profit guidance
Tuesday, 05 February 2008
Flight Centre is predicting another strong 12 months ahead and has lifted its profit guidance for the first half of 2008. The travel agency has issued its fourth profit upgrade since October. In a statement to shareholders, Flight Centre's founder and MD, ...

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I’m sick of staff and just want to shut my door. Should I?
Friday, 24 August 2007
Dear Aunty B, I have just expanded from six staff to 15 in the last year. I have always had an open-door policy. Lately the interruptions have got so out of hand (and so trivial) that I feel like I cannot get any work done until everyone has gone home for ...

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