Giuseppe Tauriello

Inside SA concrete dynasty’s rise – and the moment it was time to sell

Shifty Lizard Brewing Co. in Willunga has joined a growing list of craft brewers to close their doors, amid an industry crisis caused by rising costs, higher beer taxes, intense competition and a global decline in beer consumption.

Specialist pharmaceutical company Mayne Pharma has taken out the top prize at this year’s South Australian Premier’s Business and Export Awards.

Santos will reveal the status of takeover talks with its $30bn bidder in the coming days, but doubts over the deal are emerging, with the bidding consortium flagging a weeks-long delay to a binding offer.

More details of the lavish lifestyle led by the duo behind collapsed home builder Xtraordinary Constructions have emerged, with a thoroughbred racehorse added to a Lamborghini, marina berth and other luxury items being sold off by liquidators.

Santos and a group of its joint venture partners have secured a $692m court victory relating to a construction dispute at its Gladstone LNG project in Queensland.

The Australian Securities Exchange has held a virtual monopoly as the country’s sole full service stock exchange for nearly four decades, but that could soon come to an end with a historic shake up of Australia’s financial markets looming.

Seaweed-based cattle feed producer CH4 Global is in talks with supermarkets, restaurants, butchers and other retailers as it launches into the next phase of its ambitious plan to eliminate a gigatonne of carbon emissions by 2032.

The team behind an Adelaide-based asset inspection and testing company that counts Santos, Rio Tinto and BHP among its blue chip clients, is tapping investors for a $5m capital raise as it looks to turbocharge the launch of its in-house developed testing equipment into the lucrative US market.

Some of South Australia’s iconic brands in the food, finance and manufacturing industries have changed hands in a busy year of mergers and acquisitions, and local dealmakers are expecting another rush of transactions in the coming months as investors fast track deals ahead of looming changes to Australia’s merger laws.

Nova Systems co-founder and former chief entrepreneur Jim Whalley, and Adelaide tech entrepreneur Geoff Rohrsheim, are among the first investors in a new venture capital fund targeting investment in Australia’s “underserved markets” including South Australia.

Australia’s largest regional accommodation provider has made its largest acquisition to date, picking up the BIG4 Renmark Riverfront Holiday Park in South Australia’s Riverland region.

From humble beginnings with a single truck in the late 1980s, the family behind concrete products supplier Premix Concrete SA has struck a multimillion-dollar deal to sell the business to industry giant Adbri.

The first in a series of expected interest rate cuts could be just weeks away with experts taking the crystal ball and predicting rates could drop below 3 per cent by early next year, saving homeowners hundreds of dollars a month.

Packaging company Detmold Group is consolidating eight sites and up to 240 staff in a new corporate headquarters at its Regency Park site.

In just 10 years D&S Resources has established itself as a leading provider of engineering and construction services to some of the biggest players in the state’s mining industry. But the family-run company isn’t resting on its laurels, eyeing new emerging markets as part of an ambitious growth and diversification plan.

An Adelaide payments start-up that launched with a handful of staff just five years ago has landed a multimillion-dollar investment from a US venture capital firm.

The state’s building industry is warning delays to water, electricity and other infrastructure connections to new housing projects are behind a crippling slowdown in housing construction, as it emerges the state’s biggest home builder has shed dozens more staff.

The last surviving pizzeria in the Sicily chain of restaurants has closed its doors at Aldinga Beach after falling into the hands of liquidators.

After carving out a niche as one of Australia’s most prolific producers of shark-related content for some of the world’s leading broadcasters, an Adelaide production company is on the hunt for more international commissions while branching out from its wildlife and adventure roots into new genres.