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What started as a little side business between friends, Sarah-Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton, has turned into one of Australia’s favourite fashion stories—sass & bide. When Sarah-Jane Clarke (nicknamed sass) and Heidi Middleton (nicknamed bide) became lifelong friends, the duo could hardly imagine that friendship was going produce one of Australia’s iconic fashion labels—sass & bide. Clarke […]
With receivership and equine influenza marring its past, Magic Millions has had a fair bit to overcome to be a global juggernaut. The Magic Millions thoroughbred auction house started trading in 1980. Then in 1986, the first Magic Millions race was run. “We pioneered the concept that was a sale with a closed race attached,” […]
However varied their enterprises might be, our entrepreneurs have one thing in common: a never-say-die attitude. Juliet Potter from Autochic is a prime example. Success hasn’t come easy to Juliet Potter. She talks passionately about the struggle against seemingly impossible odds that paved the way to her new business, AutoChic, an online portal offering car […]
As reality television has shown us, the beauty world can be an ugly business. We talk to Shelley Barrett, the entrepreneur who kept her focus on enhancing beauty and turned a pet project into the global phenomenon we know as ModelCo. Shelley Barrett has been in business since she was 21. Running her own modelling agencies for […]
Sales experience from those famous steak knife infomercials makes Tim Shaw the perfect candidate for sales and marketing advice for SMEs. Shaw’s Communique Television may seem a long way from the infomercials he’s most remembered for, but he’s still the master of sales who coined the phrase: “But wait, there’s more“. Let’s face it; Shaw’s […]
Heading Pow Wow Events and Rich Dad Australia, alongside chairing the Australian Businesswomen’s Network (ABN), is a breeze for Suzi Dafnis. But it wasn’t always so easy for Dafnis, the serial entrepreneur, who says the road to growing niche businesses is full of steep learning curves. In the early 90s, Suzi Dafnis and partner, Peter […]
From lawyer to art director of a famous exhibition; Sculpture by the Sea, David Handley explains what it takes to build an export business where the customers come to the product. Despite his impressive resume, David Handley needed a change. And in his pursuit to export Sculpture by the Sea, he may have invented the […]
Launching strand after strand in his iconic Virgin empire, entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson gets it right quite often. But how does Branson do it? The king of marketing and branding shares his secrets to success. When taking a flight with Sir Richard Branson’s spirit of adventure, it’s a good idea to check your seat-belt. His […]
Running a profitable and environmentally friendly business, like SunSalt, can take a lot of resources. So Jan and Duncan Thompson made the most of a $250,000 AusIndustry innovation grant to keep SunSalt exporting sustainably. When Duncan Thompson started working at an inland salt mine, he didn’t realise he was gathering knowledge to found SunSalt, and […]
From frequently sacked typist, to a multi-millionaire, Sarina Russo knows what it takes to build a business. In fact, Russo knows what it takes to build multiple businesses; taking The Sarina Russo Group from humble beginnings, to its current state of an ever-expanding empire. Sarina Russo loves being a dragon. Not a fire-breathing mythical monster, […]
