Retail giant Wesfarmers will buy pharmacy chains Priceline and Soul Pattinson for more than $616 million. Wesfarmers said on Wednesday it had agreed to acquire 100 per cent of the chains' parent company Australian Pharmaceutical Industries Limited at $1.55 a share. Retail juggernaut Wesfarmers, which owns Kmart, Bunnings, and Officeworks, has announced plans to acquire Pharmaceutical Industries Limited 'Wesfarmers continues …
London: Facebook Inc's Libra cryptocurrency faced a pivotal meeting of backers on Monday, after the ambitious project to bring digital coins into mainstream commerce suffered another defection, from online travel company Booking Holding. Libra lost its last global payments backers on Friday, when Mastercard Inc and Visa Inc abandoned the Geneva-based Libra Association. The association, whose remaining 21 members include …
It's the follow-on devastation that no small business owner wants to think about — but one Townsville doctor is in limbo, waiting to hear whether his top-level insurance will even cover his practice. "I'm a small business owner as most general practices are, and the most heartbreaking thing really is the impact on my staff," he said. "The Insurance Council …
