Free Range debate
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Free range ‘debate’ puts the egg before the chicken Today’s announcement that Woolworths will phase out the selling of cage eggs seems like pretty good news. But let’s not get carried away. The “free range” label on a carton of eggs can mean densities of anywhere up to 20,000...
Sustainability and reporting – an Austcham HK seminar 25 Sept 2013
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Presented by Sustainable Development Committee of Austcham Hong Kong and Macau a seminar on Sustainability – A Panel Discussion on Reporting Formats. Lunch Seminar | Wednesday 25 September 2013 The Hong Kong Stock Exchange recently published guidelines for listed companies to report on Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) factors....
Cape Range (CAG.ASX) report from the Sydney Morning Herald
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Corporate Misgovernance ? Cape out of range The Sydney Morning Herald Business Day reports this morning has Cape Range ( devised a fool-proof strategy for making sure numbers fall favourably at its special meeting of shareholders this week, or has it just forgotten to pay the phone bill? The...
North Australia Large Scale Agribusiness – Integrated Food and Energy Devlopments
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About I-FED Since the 1950’s, the Etheridge Shire in North Queensland, Australia has been recognised for its enormous potential for large scale irrigated agriculture due to its; climate, soil, topography, and abundant and reliable water. Integrated Food and Energy Developments Pty Ltd (IFED) has been established to realise this potential....
The Australian Grocery market
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Is our Australian grocery market one of the most concentrated in the world? “With one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, the barriers to making it easy to buy local food in Australia are significant. It is time for Australia...
Chinese Outbound Investment – 4 leading analyst interviews- and not just for miners
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This week Mines and Money Group on Linked In presented 4 Perspectives on Chinese Outbound Investment as it relates to Mining Investment and Capital Raising but it has underlying themes for every enterprise looking to China. This series of interviews comes from Mines and Money Beijing, in which M&M asked...
Australia: world’s biggest market for project finance in 2012
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Australia was the largest and one of the fastest growing project finance markets in the world in 2012, according to Thomson Reuters Project Finance Review.1 Australian-based projects secured US$42 billion of financing during 2012, a sizable increase of 70 per cent compared to 2011. Its value accounted for over...
Australia needs a carbon bank
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Dumping the fixed price of carbon in Australia in favour of an emissions trading scheme remains complex.Kevin Rudd put the carbon tax on the table in cabinet just after his swearing in but it would be very difficult to unwind the scheme.Didnt the A$23 dollar-per-tonne carbon price came into...
AUD100Mil Australian Beef Supply Chain
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BoxRED is jointly mandated with an Australian Company and the lead manager BBY (Australia’s largest non-bank stock broker) to assist in identifying and introducing prospects for the placement of global cornerstones in a proposed AUD100 Mil IPO and to identify and negotiate global off take. The company is focused...
What if China declines ?
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What if China stops rising? The consequences of China’s decline The economic rise of China has produced a general feeling that the United States’ best days are behind them. Some experts argue the US is now facing “its fifth wave of Declinism”. Noting that many Chinese also consider American...