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Cracking the stockwhip

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A meeting of the Australian Shareholders Association (ASA) will take place in June 2001 amid controversey over the group's disastrous annual meeting in April, at which accusations of abuse of board power led to the attempted dismissal of two sitting directors. The membership of the ASA has more than doubled in the last five years.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Stockholders, Australian Shareholders Association

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Leader of the Pak

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Shareholders in Victorian fruit processor SPC are unhappy that it proposes to sell more than half of its successful packaging arm, Pak Technologies. They say they should have been given the option to provide the capital it requires for expansion.

Securities, Packaging industry, Pak Technologies, SPC

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Back from the brink

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Issues are presented concerning the turnaround which has been achieved by Burns Philp the food conglomerate. The management skills of chief executive officer Tom Degnan, which have benefited the company, are discussed.

Food industry, Influence, Chief executive officers, Personalities, Degnan, Tom, Burns-Philp Food Inc.

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