Jan Cameron

News and interviews on Jan Cameron including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.

Monday, 03 December 2012

Jan Cameron sends last-minute campaign letter to Retail Adventures' suppliers

Jan Cameron has written to suppliers in a last-minute campaign to retain control of her Retail Adventures empire.
 

Tuesday, 08 March 2011

Australia's top female entrepreneurs for 2011

In light of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, we profile the country's top businesswomen who are treading their own path to wealth and success.
 

Monday, 15 November 2010

Retail queen Jan Cameron to shut homewares and furniture chain

Rich list member and retail veteran Jan Cameron announces plans to close her Dog’s Breakfast Trading Company chain in Australia and New Zealand.
 

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Retail queen Jan Cameron reveals she has given $35 million to charity in past four years

Australia’s fourth richest woman, retail mogul Jan Cameron, reveals she has donated $35 million to charity in the past four years.
 

Monday, 08 March 2010

The wealthy women list

There is still one area of business where women are undeniably under-represented – on the world's rich lists.
 

Thursday, 04 March 2010

Australia’s top female entrepreneurs not in favour of quotas to boost women in senior ranks

A SmartCompany survey of Australia’s top female entrepreneurs reveals most are not in favour of the Government’s suggestion to introduce quotas to encourage female participation at executive and board levels.
 

Our top female entrepreneurs

In celebration of International Women's Day, SmartCompany has compiled a list of Australia's best business women.
 

Friday, 15 January 2010

Former Harris Scarfe boss Robert Atkins dies

The former Harris Scarfe boss has passed away less than a year after he took the reigns of Jan Cameron's new company, Retail Adventures.
 

Thursday, 17 December 2009

The best and worst awards of 2009

The GFC overshadowed 2009 with doomsayers labeling it the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Today, with consumer and business confidence high, we look back on the year that was.
 

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Kathmandu will float at low end of expected price range

Kathmandu receives investor backlash, with its initial public offering priced at the lower end of the company’s indicative price range at just $1.70.
 

Friday, 30 October 2009

Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron says chain is “incredibly vulnerable”

Cameron steps up her attack on Kathmandu ahead of its sharemarket float, claiming it is
 

Monday, 26 October 2009

Retail adventurer

You might not have heard of Jan Cameron, but she’s worth $500 million and could be Australia’s best retailer. Here are few secrets of her success.
 

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Kathmandu announces IPO and sets ambitious growth targets

Clothing and sporting goods retailer Kathmandu has announced plans to add new outlets as it tries to get investors to support its $380 million public offering.
 

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Property company, retail group join the new wave of floats set to hit the market

The recovering economy is set to tempt a number of companies to float in the next six months, with property group Investa and retail group Ascendia set to hit the stock exchange in big floats.
 

Monday, 13 July 2009

Where the rich are looking for opportunities

Monitoring the investment movements of the wealthy can provide valuable tips as to where everyday investors should channel their own cash.
 

Thursday, 26 March 2009

10 downturn strategies of the stinking rich

Our wealthiest investors are refusing to take the global financial crisis lying down and have employed some clever strategies to stop their wealth from falling too far.
 

Tuesday, 24 March 2009

Jan Cameron and Harris Scarfe chief buy collapsed discount chain

Kathmandu founder Jan Cameron has been confirmed as the buyer of collapsed discount chain Australian Discount Retail.
 

Bargain of the decade?

Jan Cameron's gamble on Australian Discount Retail could be her biggest bargain.
 

Friday, 20 March 2009

Wealthy retail entrepreneur Jan Cameron set to swoop on discount chains

Jan Cameron, the wealthy founder of outdoor clothing retailer Kathmandu, appears set to swoop on collapsed company Australian Discount Retail.
 

Monday, 16 February 2009

Rich bargain hunters

One certainty in every downturn is that asset prices will take a dive - allowing some rich pickings for those that have the cash to leap on a bargain or two as they surface. We track down some of the bargains our rich have managed to snaffle.
 
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