Seeing a gap in the services offered by IT distributors, Tony Gea Gea decided to fill it; with 24/7 Distribution. Now 24/7 Distribution has become the leading services-based distributor of unified communication solutions with offices in every state in Australia, India, New Zealand and Fiji. Tony Gea Gea saw that an IT distributor could play […]
It was a combination of gut feel and knowing what was happening that led Costa Anastasiadis to the open his first Crust Gourmet Pizza Bar in Annandale, Sydney. After opening four more stores, Anastasiadis invested in a proper franchising model. Today Crust Gourmet Pizza Bars have 17 stores operating under the franchise model across Sydney, […]
With no formal degrees, Dorry Kordahi became the founder and managing director of Dorry Kordahi Management (DKM). Since beginning his marketing and branding business in 2002, out of a shed, DKM has come to operate in Sydney, Melbourne and Shanghai and generates more than $4,000,000 in revenue. DB: What helped you most when trying to […]
With her passion for green business and experience in niche product design, marketing and business, Tracey Bialek established Ripple Products to develop a niche product in the growing green business sector. “I had a real desire to be in a business that was active in the environment sector, but could also create some sort of […]
Online business has always been an interest of Stephen Langford’s. Appreciating the success of Netflix in the US, Langford soon launched Quickflix in Australia, and online business success followed. DB: What helped you most in trying to get the business off the ground? SL: Two other major players with some serious money behind them were […]
Managing information online simply made sense to Rob Phillpot and Leigh Jasper. And so they founded Aconex, an online information management and collaboration service which services projects with a combined value of AU$200 billion across 44 offices worldwide. When it comes to the beginnings of their Aconex business, Phillpot says: “We were two young guys with […]
When it came to setting up her own home office after moving from Sweden to Australia, Kristina Karlsson, from kikki.K, was quick to realise the lack of stylish home and office products that Australian retail had to offer. From there, Karlsson designed her first retail range, and the beginnings of kikki.K. With no business experience, let alone […]
Australia’s skills shortage is making the process of finding and retaining staff increasingly hard. But don’t let the skills shortage get you down; here are some simple and inexpensive staff recruitment methods. The focus of organisations on finding and retaining staff has greatly expanded over the past decade. This is partly in response to the […]
Australia has been benefiting from an economic boom for so long that we seem to have forgotten the low plateaus of economic downturn and recession. But does economic downturn necessarily mean recession? The generally accepted definition of recession is a period of negative growth over three successive quarters in an economy. Often tied to gross […]
Businesses now find foreign direct investment accounts for as much revenue as direct exports, but what is foreign direct investment and what does it entail for an exporter? Offshore investment has an increasing role in generating Australian revenue, found the latest Global Readiness index, conducted by the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC). In fact, […]
