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Speaker 1: To win three turbulent stories today HD.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it.

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Speaker 1: For our first. SPC is cutting back it's canned fruit

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Speaker 1: production because the cost of living is seeing customers opt

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Speaker 1: for cheaper imported options.

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Speaker 2: Could not forget the taste of those insanely sweet canned peaches,

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Speaker 2: even if I try what's the story here.

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Speaker 1: Does SPC is one of Australia's largest food processes and

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Speaker 1: they started over one hundred and five years ago.

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Speaker 2: Fun fact for you, it actually stands for Shepperton Preserving Company.

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Speaker 1: Interesting good for trivia, and hd SPC owns a number

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Speaker 1: of canned fruit brands like SPC, Golden Valley and Admona

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Speaker 2: Those SBC fruit saled SnackPacks were definitely a primary school staple.

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Speaker 1: Well now hd SPC said it's going to be cutting

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Speaker 1: some of those canned fruit productions because cost of living

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Speaker 1: pressures are pushing consumers towards cheaper options.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so SBC has told its AUSSI suppliers that it'll

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Speaker 2: cut peach and pair intake by almost forty percent.

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Speaker 1: Turns out the cheaper alternatives in the market are actually

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Speaker 1: imported from countries like China and South Africa.

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Speaker 2: Where production costs are lower.

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Speaker 1: And that's why Australian farmers and food processes are pushing

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Speaker 1: the government to bring in another import tariff.

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Speaker 2: So tell me what's the key learning here.

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Speaker 1: An import tariff is a tax that's imposed by the

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Speaker 1: government on goods imported from another country.

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Speaker 2: Governments can levy tariffs for a range reasons, like to

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Speaker 2: increase revenue, or to exert political power, or like.

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Speaker 1: In this case, to protect the local economy.

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Speaker 2: You see, Jazz, SPC and local fruit processors are competing

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Speaker 2: against brands that use cheaper imported fruits.

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Speaker 1: And therefore they're able to price themselves lower and gain

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Speaker 2: That leads local processes like SPC in the dust and

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Speaker 2: has consequences for the entire Australian fruit processing industry. And

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Speaker 2: we've seen this happen in China with the wine import tariffs. Yep.

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Speaker 1: Remember when China imposed more than two hundred and eighteen

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Speaker 2: So Jazz until there are increased tariffs on these overseas

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Speaker 2: fruit producers, it looks like there's going to be less

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Speaker 2: fruit salad snacks in primary school lunchboxes.

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Speaker 1: For our second story, the owner of Champion, the sportswear brand,

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Speaker 1: will sell the Champion business for nearly one point five

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Speaker 1: billion US dollars to narrow it's focus on inner wear.

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Speaker 2: I feel like Champion has really made quite the comeback recently.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about this.

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Speaker 1: Champion actually started back in nineteen nineteen, but was first

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Speaker 1: acquired by Sarah Lee in nineteen eighty nine. Guess that

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Speaker 2: But clearly it didn't quite match with their cheesecakes and

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Speaker 2: sticky date puddings. So they spun out all of their

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Speaker 2: apparel brands into another company called Haines Brands, and.

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Speaker 1: That company owns Haines Teas, They owned Wonder Bra.

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Speaker 2: And they also owned some iconic Aussie brands like Bonds, Undies,

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Speaker 1: But now I see Haynes Brands will sell the Champion

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Speaker 1: brand to another company called Authentic Brands.

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Speaker 2: And how much are we talking here?

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Speaker 1: Well, it'll be one point two billion US dollars upfront,

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Speaker 1: with an additional three hundred million bucks if Champion hit

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Speaker 1: certain performance thresholds.

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Speaker 2: I feel like Champion is really starting to hit its

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Speaker 2: peak again. So why the sudden sale.

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Speaker 1: Well, Haines Brand says it wants to focus on extending

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Speaker 1: its innwear category like Bras and Undies. But really this

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Speaker 1: might just be a case of good timing.

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Speaker 2: So what's the key learning here?

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Speaker 1: In the fast paced world of fashion, timing the market

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Speaker 2: Haynes Brands knows all too well, what happens when a

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Speaker 2: brand goes out of fashion?

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Speaker 1: Yeah. After partnering with the NFL and college football in

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Speaker 1: the late eighties, Champion became an iconic and super popular.

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Speaker 2: Brandt's say, bills nearly doubled between nineteen eighty five and

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty eight to over two hundred million US dollars.

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Speaker 1: Then they're required by Sarah Lee and Champion became a

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Speaker 1: bit of a discount brand and they were sold in

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Speaker 2: And suffered a clear fall from Grace whatever.

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Speaker 1: The past five years, Champion seen a major turnaround. It

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Speaker 1: leaned into gen Z's love for the nineties culture.

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Speaker 2: It announced a collab with Supreme, then wood would and

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Speaker 2: then Vetaments.

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Speaker 1: And celebs like Selena Gomere's Chance the Rapper and Hailey

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Speaker 1: Bieber all started wearing the brand as well.

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Speaker 2: Now, Champion generates more than two billion US dollars in

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Speaker 2: sales in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: Actually, Champions owner knows how fickle consumer trends can be.

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Speaker 2: And when you've got a good offer on the table

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Speaker 2: for a consumer brand, you take it, cash it and run.

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Speaker 1: For our third and final story, Zoom wants to create

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Speaker 1: a digital twin to attend meetings for you, so you

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Speaker 1: can go to the beach instead of being.

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Speaker 2: At worse Sign me up, Sorry, no, I mean I

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Speaker 2: love meetings. Tell me more.

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Speaker 1: So. We all know Zoom, the video conferencing software that

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Speaker 1: launched back in twenty eleven but when absolutely bananas when

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Speaker 1: the the whole world went into lockdown.

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Speaker 2: Although Zoom may not have wish COVID on us, it's

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Speaker 2: fair to say it was one of the biggest beneficiaries.

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Speaker 1: In fact, its share price jumped over seven hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty percent between January and October twenty twenty, but just.

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Speaker 2: Since then it returned to its previous levels, which is

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Speaker 2: why Zoom needs to think of some new innovative ways

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Speaker 2: to get its users to fall in love again.

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Speaker 1: Let's be honest, nobody was loving seeing their colleagues and

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Speaker 1: constantly being on muses.

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Speaker 2: Zoom has already attempted to become more of a productivity

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Speaker 2: tool like Microsoft and Google.

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Speaker 1: But now zoom CEO has announced plans to build an

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Speaker 1: AI avatar that will be your digital twin in meetings.

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Speaker 2: So the idea is you can clone yourself and your

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Speaker 2: AI clone can make business decisions on your behalf in

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Speaker 2: meetings and Zoom recons If successful, you'll only need to

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Speaker 2: attend ten percent of the meetings you do today.

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Speaker 1: But before you go searching to sign up the CEO

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Speaker 1: warrant day are still some time away from turning this

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Speaker 2: So does it's no surprise that this magical idea for

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Speaker 2: years down the path didn't actually move Zoom's share price.

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Speaker 1: So tell me what is the key learning here?

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Speaker 2: Well, ambitious tech announcements to excite investors, they can often

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Speaker 2: have the opposite effect.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, tech announcements like cutting down your meetings by ninety

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Speaker 2: When these advancements failed to materialize, they actually erode trust

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Speaker 2: and enthusiasm.

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Speaker 1: For example, Elon Musk had projections that Tesla would have

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Speaker 1: fully self driving capabilities. Oh yeah, well repeatedly pushed back.

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Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, he said that self driving cars could

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Speaker 2: be ready by twenty seventeen, and.

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Speaker 1: It was going to be twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: And now we're in twenty twenty four and I ain't

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Speaker 2: seen many self driving cars and taxis yet.

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Speaker 1: There's a fine line between inspiring innovation and fostering investor skepticism.

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Speaker 2: And given Zoom CEO warn this might be six to

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Speaker 2: seven years away, it's kind of hard to get excited

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Speaker 2: about it right now.

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Speaker 1: Bring on the digital twins, Flux Am. If you want

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Speaker 1: to win fifty bucks to start your weekend on a high,

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Speaker 1: then all you've got to do is make sure you've

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Speaker 1: got the Flux app downloaded, notifications turned on, because we'll

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Speaker 1: be dropping the quiz between nine am and ten am today.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, and we'll see you on Monday.