A recent report by IBISWorld presents the top 5 and bottom 5 investment opportunity rankings to start up a business in Australia in 2011. The rankings are based on both historical records and predictions of five industry performance indicators.
A recent article published in the Victorian daily “The Age” by Royce Millar and Clay Lucas (2011) widely debates the first published performance results of METRO, the newest operator of Melbourne’s franchised rail system.
As Australia celebrated its National Day last week, many horse racing clubs around the country embraced the festive occasion by organizing race meetings. However, the racing circuit at Hanging Rock in Victoria was forced to suspend its race meeting event due to safety concerns, after several waves of kangaroos invaded the course.
Today, information technology solutions can shape and influence the world of sport in a way never seen before. Hundreds of metrics, statistics and rankings about players and teams performance during games or even entire competitions are now available at a “touch of a button”.
Urbis, a Melbourne based real-estate consulting company has released Urbis Retail Averages 2010, this year’s edition of the annual survey of shopping center performance the company has been producing since 1992 . Conducted in cooperation with the Shopping Centre Council of Australia and using the Counci’s sales reporting standards, the study provides key results and analysis of the sector for both regional and sub-regional centers. 59 regional and 167 sub-regional shopping centers submitted data for this year’s edition.