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List Of Australian Businesspersons
The economy of Australia is one of the most developed, modern market economies in the world and the most productive in South Pacific, with a GDP of approximately US$1.6 trillion. Australia's total wealth is 6.4 trillion dollars. In 2011, it was the 13th-largest national economy by nominal GDP. CIA World Factbook s involved in different activities, whether commercial or industrial, for the purpose of generating revenue from a combination of human, financial, and physical capital are listed here. A * |
Economy Of Australia
Australia is a highly developed country with a mixed-market economy. As of 2022, Australia was the 14th-largest national economy by nominal GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the 20th-largest by PPP-adjusted GDP, and was the 22nd-largest goods exporter and 24th-largest goods importer. Australia took the record for the longest run of uninterrupted GDP growth in the developed world with the March 2017 financial quarter. It was the 103rd quarter and the 26th year since the country had a technical recession (two consecutive quarters of negative growth). As of June 2021, the country's GDP was estimated at 1.98 trillion. The Australian economy is dominated by its service sector, which in 2017 comprised 62.7% of the GDP and employed 78.8% of the labour force. At the height of the mining boom in 2009–10, the total value-added of the mining industry was 8.4% of GDP. Despite the recent decline in the mining sector, the Australian economy had remained resilient and stable and di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Beer
Maggie Beer (born Margaret Anne Ackerman, 19 January 1945) is an Australian chef, food author, restaurateur, and food manufacturer. Beer is one of the judges on ''The Great Australian Bake Off'' alongside Matt Moran and is also a regular guest on '' MasterChef Australia''. Early life Maggie Beer was born in Sydney in January 1945, to Ronald Ackerman, whose German ancestry was from his paternal grandparents, and Doreen Carter, who had English ancestry from her maternal great-grandparents. Her father's ancestors lived in Hill End located in regional New South Wales and were gold miners. Beer believed they were Jewish, but this was refuted in an episode of '' Who Do You Think You Are?'', as it emerged that her ancestors had been Catholic for as long as there were records. She grew up with her family in Sydney's western suburbs. Beer's parents faced issues with bankruptcy as she was growing up and re-invented themselves as caterers. She stated this contributed to her strong work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David James Campbell
David James Campbell (born 6 June 1983) is an advertising executive, writer and film director from Adelaide, South Australia, known for his 2013 film '' Lemon Tree Passage''. Career After dropping out from Blackwood High School in 2000, he became a freelance graphic designer before being employed by design firm, Egplant. In 2004 along with, Jeremy Ervine, he launched Fnuky, an advertising agency which promised "big ideas, not just ads". He served as the agency's creative director, leading it to become South Australia's most internationally awarded creative agency with its work being recognised in major advertising award shows in London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Sydney and Cannes. In May 2012 he was awarded a Gold Clio, one of the advertising industries highest honors. David has also shown an interest in filmmaking, personally directing many of the agency's ads. In 2012 he directed his first short film, ''Afternoons With Max Marshall''. Only months later he directed a short com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathan Buzza
Nathan Buzza (born 26 November 1970) is an Australian entrepreneur, investor and the founder of CommtechWireless. He received Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2005 and the Western Australia IT&T "Lifetime achievement award" for contributions to the Australian IT Community in 2006. Aged 14, he had developed computer games Qubert and Q-Zar. Early life and career Buzza was born in Perth, Australia. After completing schooling from Scotch College, he joined Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ... for Bachelor of Business degree program. Since childhood, he had a keen interest in entrepreneurship and to fulfill his dreams, he dropped out of University in between before completing his business degree. In 1992, Buzza along with his childhood frie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rod Butterss
Roderick "Rod" Butterss is an Australian investor, with stakes in property development and the recruiting industry. During the late 1970s, Butterss played in the St Kilda Football Club reserves side, but never made it to senior level. He developed a long association with the club, and became president of the club in 2000, and resigned in 2007 due to a serious challenge from another party led by Greg Westaway. The entire St Kilda board followed Butterss and resigned the same day. Butterss founded information technology head-hunter firm Icon Recruitment in 1989 before selling the successful business to United States recruitment giant Adecco The Adecco Group, is a Swiss- French company based in Zurich, Switzerland, and is the world's second largest Human Resources provider and temporary staffing firm, and a Fortune Global 500 company. They directly employ 700,000 people a day, a ... for a substantial sum in 1997. Five years after the sale he bought half of his brother's tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Sinclair Butt
Charles Sinclair Butt (28 July 190021 January 1973) was an Australian businessman. He worked for the Rapson Tyre company and the Dunlop Rubber Company. By 1934 he was Dunlop's chief accountant. He also served as general manager and Controller of Tyres for the Olympic Tyre & Rubber Co. Limited. In 1962, he was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. References External links Butt, Charles Sinclair (1900–1973) in the Australian Dictionary of Biography The ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University (ANU) to produce authoritative biographical articles on eminent people in Australia's ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Butt, Charles 1900 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Australian businesspeople ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Bush (businessman)
Peter Hallam Bush is an Australian company director. He was previously the chairman of Southern Cross Austereo. He was managing director of McDonald's Australia Limited and a former director of Lion Nathan. Early life and family Bush is the son of a Methodist minister and media personality, the Reverend Roger Bush OBE, and was born in Bulli, New South Wales. He was educated at Newington College (1964-1970) and Macquarie University. He married Adrienne Chartres on 17 August 1981 and is the father of a daughter and son. Business career He has been Chairman and CEO of Schwarzkopf Australasia and has held senior marketing positions with AGB McNair, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and Arnott's. He was Managing Director of McDonald's Australia Limited from 2005 until retiring in 2010 due to ill health. In December 2011 he was appointed chairman of Nine Entertainment Co and he resigned in 2013. Sporting Bush is a past Commodore of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and headed the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Bugno
Walter Bugno is the chief executive officer of IGT International a division of IGT plc Life and career Bugno was previously the chief executive officer of Bokks, the London-based global luxury brand supply network. From 2006 to 2009 he was chief executive officer of the casino division of Australia's Tabcorp Holdings Ltd. From 2002 to 2006 he was the president of Campbell Arnott's Asia Pacific. Prior to that, Bugno was the managing director of Lion Nathan Australia, a division of Lion Nathan Ltd. He was chairman of A-League club Sydney FC during their inaugural season, but announced his decision to step down in September 2006, citing difficulty in holding roles in both Tabcorp and Sydney F Bugno has a bachelor of commerce and a master of commerce from the University of New South Wales. He was born in Wollongong on 8 January 1960 and then returned to Italy until finally moving back to Australia at the age of 17. Walter Bugno attended Patrician Brothers' College, Fairfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Brown (industrialist)
Andrew Brown, a Scottish–born Australian industrialist and philanthropist, was instrumental in founding the township of Lithgow as well as a number of Presbyterian educational institutions. Early life Brown was born in Methven, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. In the period between 1824 and 1826 Brown acquired land at Bowenfels, New South Wales, effectively creating the first European settlement in the Lithgow Valley. He then acquired of land in the valley, around Cooerwull Brook (now known in Lithgow as Farmer's Creek). The property originally used for grazing, became known as Cooerwull after the small blue flowers which grow in the area. A suburb in Lithgow still retains the name. Development of Lithgow The next phase of life was replete with a number of changes to his property which fostered Lithgow's economic development. In 1837 Brown established a water driven flour mill on Cooerwull Brook to process the wheat grown both on his own property and on other properties in the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Boyd
Benjamin Boyd (21 August 180115 October 1851) was a Scottish entrepreneur who became a major shipowner, banker, grazier, politician and slaver, exploiting South Sea Islander labour in the British colony of New South Wales. Boyd became one of the largest landholders and graziers of the Colony of New South Wales before suffering financial difficulties and becoming bankrupt. Boyd briefly tried his luck on the Californian goldfields before being purportedly murdered on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Many of his business ventures involved blackbirding, the practice of enslaving South Sea Islanders. Boyd was a man of "an imposing personal appearance, fluent oratory, aristocratic connections, and a fair share of commercial acuteness". Georgiana McCrae, with whom he had dinner when he first came to the Port Phillip District, looked at him with an artist's eye and said: "He is Rubens over again. Tells me he went to a ''bal masque'' as Rubens with his broad-leafed hat". Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bowker (Australian Businessman)
Richard Ryther Steer Bowker (30 August 1815 – 3 April 1903) was an Australian mariner, physician, surgeon and politician. Early life and education Bowker was the son of Thomas Dawson and Elizabeth Steer and born at Campsall, Yorkshire, England. He was awarded diplomas in botany and materia medica in Paris in 1836 and an MD from the University of St Andrews in 1839. He visited Australia in the emigrant ship the ''Shepherd'' and then migrated to Melbourne, Victoria, in the in February 1841. He kept a diary on the voyage which was edited and published by one of his descendants in 2016.Richard Bowker (edited by John Parkinson), ''The surgeon's eye; the shipboard diaries of Richard Ryther Steer Bowker; doctor, voyager, politician, patriarch'', Austin Macauley, London, 2016. . The volume also records his service aboard the Sydney whaler ''Caroline'' (1841–42) as an ordinary seaman. He was a passenger on the ''Susannah'' from London to the Cape in 1845. From there he left to Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Bonett
Shaun is an anglicized spelling of the Irish name Seán. Alternative spellings include Shawn, Sean and Shawne. Notable persons with the given name include: People *Shaun (musician) (born 1990), South Korean musician *Shaun (YouTuber), British video essayist * Shaun Alexander (born 1977), American football player *Shaun Bradley (born 1997), American football player * Shaun Cassidy (born 1958), American television producer/creator, screenwriter, singer and actor *Shaun Chamberlin, English author and activist *Shaun Donovan (born 1966), American politician *Shaun Evans (other), multiple people *Shaun Johnson (born 1990), New Zealand rugby league footballer *Shaun Jolly (born 1998), American football player * Shaun King (born 1979), American writer and civil rights activist *Shaun King (American football) (born 1977), American football player *Shaun Livingston (born 1985), American basketball player * Shaun Maloney (born 1983), Scottish football coach and former player * S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
