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Ensuring your children work outside your family business before you bring them
into the business is critical for successful succession, Steve and Mike Plarre told
attendees at Matthews Steer’s March Success Stories Breakfast.
Learn from your mistakes, know your worth, and choose your friends wisely, was Tina Arena AM’s advice to attendees at the annual Moonee Valley Women in Business luncheon in March.
Do you ever find yourself pondering the quality of your workplace culture? One of the best ways to assess whether a business is nailing the environment, mission, value, ethics and expectations that make up the ‘personality’ of a workplace, is by seeing how many long-term employees that workplace has retained.
Melbourne is perfectly sized for entrepreneurs to create scale, while still being small enough to establish influential partnerships and these factors, combined with Melbournians’ can-do attitude, and a plethora of incubators and networks, have established the city as one of the world’s most animated start-up hubs.
Constant, relentless change is a symptom of today’s fast-paced society and if you’re a business owner keeping up with technology and operational developments, and remaining innovative, can be challenging.
Australians need to draw on the spirit of mateship that binds us in order to tackle the adversities we face in the modern world, Dr Brendan Nelson AO, Director, The Australian War Memorial told attendees at the 2018 Kopkoda breakfast held on the 10th August.
Instagram offers a significant opportunity for small businesses to connect with their customers and clients, tell their unique story, and control their brand image. At Matthews Steer's annual Women In Business Party, Charlotte James of Charlotte James Communications shared some top tips on how to present the human face of your business on social media.
With Australia gearing up for a Baby Boomer Tsunami, its high time business owners start to think about their exit strategy. Founding Partner of Matthews Steer, Ken Matthews said that approximately 80% of Australian business owners are unprepared for exit, succession or other business evolutions over the next 10 years. That was the message to attendees at Matthews Steer’s inaugural Mergers & Acquisitions event, run in conjunction with Peloton Global.
Victoria-based Australian Bio Fert (ABF) developed an organic waste
management solution that produces cost-competitive biological fertiliser
products for mainstream agricultural markets. Their fertiliser formulations are
designed to meet farmers’ objectives of lowering input costs and increasing
yields using a carbon-enriched slow-release fertiliser that promotes soil health
and fertility.
Matthews Steer congratulates the team at Barker Trailers for winning the ‘Investment in People’ Award at the Victorian Transport Association’s twenty-ninth Australian Freight Industry Awards (AFIA).
If you’re a food and beverage manufacturer, did you know you can use the facilities at CSIRO’s Food Innovation Centre at Werribee to develop innovative food products?
Matthews Steer congratulates Mario Nastri, Daniel Carapellotti, and the team
at Class Plastics on winning the Wyndham Business of the Year, and Medium
Manufacturing Business, awards.