CEO Sleepout
The Note cheekily suggested last week that Andrew Forrest had skipped a night in the open by offering to top up the fund-raising totals of other leaders participating in the St Vincent de Paul charity event.
Not so, The Note was told by a source at Fortescue Metals Group. Mr Forrest will be sleeping over – after all the WACA is just a stone’s throw from FMG’s offices – and taking in the full experience.
The Note will take this opportunity to highlight executive editor Mark Pownall’s fundraising is above $16,000, quite close to the $20,000 target needed to get a $5,000 donation from the FMG founder. Why not help out a good cause and help us keep all those CEOs on their toes.
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Trouble brewing
Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the biggest Aussie brewer of them all?
Well it might not be a beauty contest, but award-winning Swan Valley beer maker Feral Brewing Company reckons it’s now WA’s largest Australian-owned player with the impending sale of Little World Beverages to Japan’s Kirin subsidiary Lion.
The Note can’t verify that claim given there are 19 micro-brewers here, well and truly above the limit when it comes to the Australian market, which is thought to have nearly 120. We’ll have to visit them all to be sure.
South Australian brewer Coopers claims to be the biggest overall Australian-owned player; it also owns the biggest home brew label in the US, Mr Beer, and claims to be the biggest producer of home brew concentrates in the world.
On the register
Little World reckons its long relationship with Lion means the multi-national giant will most likely respect the Little Creatures label owner’s independence, even when its fully owned. How long that will be? The Note watched as Matilda Bay’s operations were slowly but surely shifted east. The North Fremantle factory closed in 2007 but it had stopped making Redback and other assorted delicacies years earlier.
