BNET Industries

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$1.4B
- Public
- AU
Dow Jones Description
Newspaper, Magazine & Website Publisher
Chief Executive Officer
Fred HilmerNumber of Employees 7,197
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Newspaper Publishers: 511110
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Property by numbers.
Byline: Robert Harley Dec 26, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian Property Monitors APM has prepared a real estate report for John Fairfax Holdings' "The Australian Financial Review". It is based around postcode data with sales of more than...
Houses - South Australia.
Byline: Mathew Dunckley Dec 26, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian Property Monitors has found South Australia's highest median price in Unley, which rose 19.3 per cent to $A602,000 in 2006. Smaller increases were posted for Myrtle Park,...
Fairfax to create net titles in capitals.
Byline: Michael Sainsbury Dec 13, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings is reportedly planning to launch internet newspaper titles in Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane in 2007. The first of the titles is expected to be...
Fairfax rejects Brisbane paper talk.
Byline: Mathew Ricketson Dec 11, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- According to the CEO of Fairfax Media, David Kirk, Queensland's newspaper market is "mature". Rejecting rumours that Fairfax will use its $A3 billion takeover of Rural Press to launch a...
Fairfax & Rural Press merge.
Dec 11, 2006 (Adbrief - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The merger of John Fairfax Holdings with Rural Press has resulted in a member of the Fairfax family once more being associated with the business. Fairfax passed out of the Fairfax family in around 1990, but a...
Fairfax: the Renaissance.
Byline: Pamela Williams Dec 10, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Fairfax family is poised to come back to the newspaper company it used to own. John B Fairfax, of Rural Press, is poised to enter a $A3 ...
Nine major buys in 14 months is no 'shopping spree'.
Byline: Neil Shoebridge Dec 10, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- David Kirk has spent or invested $A3.6bn since becoming CEO of John Fairfax Holdings in October 2005. Major purchases include online business Mooter Media ($A4.1m), New Zealand...
Bigger Fairfax sheds takeover allure.
Byline: Glenda Korporaal Dec 07, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian newspaper groups John Fairfax Holdings and Rural Press will form a new entity worth $A9bn. The merger is seen as a disincentive for a range of candidates who may...
John B Fairfax to fight any sell-off, break-up.
Byline: Stuart Washington and Lisa Murray Dec 07, 2006 (The West Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian media groups John Fairfax Holdings and Rural Press are to merge, making the latter's John B Fairfax a major stockholder in the combined entity. He...
Coonan helped get price right for Fairfax.
Byline: Stephen Bartholomeusz Dec 07, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian newspaper groups John Fairfax Holdings and Rural Press are to merge, bringing to fruition long-harboured plans. While the move is not solely triggered by the Federal Government's...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Fred Hilmer | Chief Executive Officer |
| Brian Evans | Managing Director & COO |
| Mark Bayliss | CFO |
| Sankar Narayan | CFO |
| Alan Revell | Managing Director |
| Linda Price | Director, Org Development |
| Peter Graham | Director, Group Operations |
| Phil Scott | Group Director, Editorial |
| Sue Zerk | Director, Marketing |
| Gail Hambly | General Counsel & Secretary |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Mark Burrows | Deputy Chairman |
| Ronald Walker | Chairman |
| David Evans | Board of Directors |
| Dean Wills | Board of Directors |
| Julia King | Board of Directors |
| Peter Young | Board of Directors |
| Roger Corbett | Board of Directors |
Fred Hilmer is Chief Executive Officer, John Fairfax Holdings Limited. Prior to joining Fairfax he was Dean & Director of the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) in the University of New South Wales and a Director of Port Jackson Partners Limited. Prior to joining the AGSM, Mr Hilmer was a director of McKinsey & Company responsible for managing the Australian practice. He holds a degree in law from the University of Sydney, an LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of Finance where he was appointed a Joseph Wharton Fellow. In 1991 the Australian Institute of Management awarded him a special John Storey medal for distinguished contribution to the advancement of management thinking in Australia. Earlier in his career, Fred Hilmer was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and he also practised law in Australia. He served on the Committee of Inquiry into Management Education during 1981 and 1982. He was a member of the Commonwealth Higher Education Council and Chairman of the Business Council of Australia's Employee Relations Study Group. In 1992 and 1993 he chaired the National Competition Policy Review Committee. He is Deputy Chairman of Westfield Holdings Limited. He previously served as Chairman of Pacific Power, Deputy Chairman of Foster's Brewing Group Limited and as a Director of a number of other Australian companies. He has written extensively on strategy, organisation and economic reform and is the author of a number of books, including: When The Luck Runs Out, New Games/New Rules, co-authored Strictly Boardroom, Working Relations and Management Redeemed.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Unsw Foundation Limited | Vice-Chancellor and President | Current |
| Unsw | Vice-Chancellor and President | Current |
| Working Relations | Co-Author | Current |
| Speakers Network International | Current | |
| Icmi Sa | Current | |
| Fairfax Holdings | CEO | Former |
| McKinsey & Company, Inc. | Partner | Former |
| Australian Graduate School of Management | Dean | Former |
| Agsm | Former | |
| Fairfax | Former | |
| The Business Council | Chairman | Former |
| McKinsey & Company, Inc. | Director | Former |
| Australian Graduate School of Management | Director | Former |
| Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania | Master of Business Administration Degree | Former |
| University of Sydney | Degree In Law | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Fairfax New Zealand Limited | CEO | Current |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Managing Director & COO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | CFO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| The Sun-Herald | CFO | Current |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | CFO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Managing Director | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Director, Org Development | Current |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Director, Org Development | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Director, Group Operations | Current |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Director, Group Operations | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Group Director, Editorial | Current |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Group Director, Editorial | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Director, Marketing | Current |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Director, Marketing | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | General Counsel & Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Brambles Limited | Deputy Chairman | Current |
| The Sydney Morning Herald | Deputy Chairman | Current |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Deputy Chairman | Current |
| Burns, Philp & Company Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Brambles Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Brambles Limited | Deputy Chairman | Former |
| Burns, Philp & Company Limited | Director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Chairman | Current |
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Coca-Cola Amatil Limited | Managing Director | Former |
| Coca-Cola Amatil Limited | Chairman | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| John Fairfax Holdings Limited | Board of Directors | Current |
| Volume | 2,971,402 |
| Shares Outstanding | 0. |
| Market Cap | 0. |
| Year High | 102.60 |
| Year Low | 7.87 |
| Earnings Per Share | 0.00 |
| P/E Ratio | N/A |
| Dividend | 0.00 |
| Yield | 0.00 |
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