Brett Blundy (born 1959/1960) is an Australian
billionaire
A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...
businessman. He is the founder and former
chairman
The chairperson, also chairman, chairwoman or chair, is the presiding officer of an organized group such as a board, committee, or deliberative assembly. The person holding the office, who is typically elected or appointed by members of the grou ...
of
BB Retail Capital
Brett Blundy (born 1959/1960) is an Australian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of BB Retail Capital, which owns companies such as Sanity (music store), Sanity Entertainment, Bras N Things, and Aventus Property Grou ...
, which owns companies such as
Sanity Entertainment
Sanity is an Australian chain of music and entertainment stores and is the country's second-largest retailer of recorded audio and video discs. It is privately owned by Ray Itaoui, and as of December 2022, comprises 41 outlets across Australia. ...
, Bras N Things, and Aventus Property Group.
He is part-owner of
BridgeClimb Sydney
BridgeClimb Sydney is an Australian tourist attraction.
BridgeClimb guides guests on a climb of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Since its launch on 1 October 1998, BridgeClimb has welcomed over 4 million people onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge arche ...
, one of Australia's biggest
tourist attraction
A tourist attraction is a place of interest that tourists visit, typically for its inherent or an exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement.
Types
Places of natural b ...
s. In 2015 Blundy expanded his business operations into
cattle farming
A ranch (from es, rancho/Mexican Spanish) is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle and sheep. It is a subtype of a farm. These terms are most often ...
.
Career
BB Retail Capital (BBRC) was founded by Blundy in 1980 with the purchase of a single
record store
A record shop or record store is a retail outlet that sells recorded music. In the late 19th century and the early 20th century, record shops only sold gramophone records, but over the 20th century, record shops sold the new formats that were ...
"Disco Duck", now known as Sanity Entertainment Group.
In 2005, he purchased Diva, a fashion jewellery store founded by Colette and Mark Hayman. Diva had close to 200 stores in Australia and New Zealand and 400 in international markets.
In 2010, he launched
Lovisa Jewellery
Lovisa is an Australian jewellery chain founded in Sydney in April 2010. This fast fashion jewellery brand was launched by Australian billionaire Brett Blundy, the former chairman of BB Retail Capital (BBRC). As of November 2022, Lovisa has 746 ...
, a
fast fashion
Fast fashion is a term used to describe the clothing industry's business model of replicating recent catwalk trends and High fashion, high-fashion designs, mass production, mass-producing them at a low cost, and bringing them to retail stores qui ...
jewellery brand. As of November 2022, Lovisa has 676 stores across 26 countries.
In early 2018, Bras N Things was sold to the US company
Hanes
Hanes (founded in 1900) and Hanes Her Way (founded in 1985) is a brand of clothing.
History
Hanes was founded in 1900 by John Wesley Hanes (one of Winston-Salem's wealthiest and most influential business men) at Winston, North Carolina under th ...
.
Personal life
He is married, with two children, and lives in
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
.
Blundy owns a megayacht, ''Cloud 9''.
Net worth
References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian businesspeople
Australian billionaires