According to Dynamic Business, the corner video store isn’t dead in Australia: Not even close, says the The Network Group Managing Director Keran Wicks, who reports the company’s balance sheet remains strong as do its 300 Network Video store members around the country. Wicks said The Network Group, Australia’s second largest DVD rental group, remains […]
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The Fruit Box is an Australian company that delivers fresh fruit to corporate breakrooms as a traditional alternative to the standard fare of unhealthy snacks. Ten years ago, the company had just two deliver vans, 280 customers and less than two full-time staff members. Today, the company has more than fifty vans, and delivers 600,000
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The Coral Coast Men’s Shed, Michael Garret, was inspired to create a device for easy one-handed pool when his club received a pool table. He couldn’t help but think about how much fun it would be, and wanted to make sure people with disabilities, like those with the use of only one arm, could enjoy
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Seven News Queensland: Surf Life Saving Australia says unmanned aerial drones will patrol some Queensland beaches this summer. The organisation’s head, Brett Williamson, says the drones will be used on North Stradbroke Island in a trial of the technology. He has told Radio National’s the drones, which have a wingspan of one metre, use cameras
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How does starting a business out of your love of talking about sports at the office sound? Yet that’s just what it’s become for Paula Ward, a self-appointed “sports interpreter†who’s swapped a career in human resources to launch Know The Game, a business dedicated to educating people about Australian sports.
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Sydney Morning Herald: Some people hate banks, some hate their telcos and others have it in for insurance companies. Daniel Battaglia’s pet hates are excessive parking fees and council parking inspectors. But unlike most of us, he’s turned his particular dislike into a business, despite having almost no financing assistance. Battaglia had been travelling around
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International vacations can be a great way to come up with new business ideas. When you’re outside of your normal environment, and even more so, when outside of your cultural comfort zone, you’ll be exposed to many interesting and innovative ideas and opportunities that with a just a little localization might be just right for
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Fraser Coast Chronicle: It was no doubt after a day’s struggle on the open water, after hauling in and maybe even tripping over a cumbersome anchor, that this little fish jumped right into Franco’s head, the idea for an anchor that was easy to store, compact and hassle-free. The Rockhampton man has designed the foldaway
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Before the song Down Under by Men At Work, one man worked hard to keep Vegemite on the map. That man is the inventor, Cyril Callister. Stock & Land: From the early 1920s, with imports of the British yeast extract Marmite having been disrupted by World War I, Melbourne food entrepreneur Fred Walker set Cyril
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An Australian man caused quite a stir in Bathurst, New South Wales last week while testing the equipment for his new aerial photography business. The locals thought it might have been a UFO, but it was really just a microdrone helicopter. Microdrones are unmanned arial vehicles (basically remote controlled airplanes and helicopters) similar to what
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