Brett Blundy (born 1959/1960) is an Australian

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businessman. He is the founder and former

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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

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, one of Australia's biggest

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s. In 2015 Blundy expanded his business operations into

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Career

BB Retail Capital (BBRC) was founded by Blundy in 1980 with the purchase of a single

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"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

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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

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Personal life

He is married, with two children, and lives in

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. Blundy owns a megayacht, ''Cloud 9''.

Net worth

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blundy, Brett Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian businesspeople Australian billionaires