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Sea Forest founder and CEO Sam Elsom at the company’s site in Triabunna, Tasmania.

Move over AI, seaweed is the new wonder product

One type of seaweed cuts methane emissions and fattens cattle and another has natural polymers that behave like plastic.

  • Simon Johanson

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Premal Patel, founder of clothing brand Runaway the Label who died this month

‘Broke the mould’: Sydney fashion entrepreneur Premal Patel dead at 47

Influencers and Bollywood starlets wear his clothing, but Premal Patel was also a path-breaker for Australia’s Indian diaspora.

  • Matt Wade
El Jannah’s chief marketing officer, Adam Issa, with some of its food.

‘We are not selling out’: El Jannah’s new investor is a $180 billion US giant

The wildly popular Lebanese chicken chain has a deep-pocketed new backer to help it conquer Australia, and then its cultural motherland, Lebanon.

  • Jessica Yun
The pace of life is slower in Kamiyama, but the town has remade its identity as a hub for creatives and nature lovers.

The smart decision 20 years ago that saved a Japanese town

Where others have withered, this mountain town has reinvented itself as a refuge for Tokyo’s entrepreneurs and artists - thanks to one smart decision.

  • Lisa Visentin
Index image for Care A2 milk story

How baby formula investors became entangled with shady financial firms and organised crime

The company was on the cusp of a cash bonanza and ready to float on the Australian Stock Exchange. Now batches of its product are set to be sold at a pittance to go into pet food.

  • Harriet Alexander
Gen Alpha workers are now starting to enter the workforce.

Gen Alpha are entering the workforce. Here’s what they want

It only feels like yesterday that a new generation entered the workforce, but it’s time we all got ready for a brand-new wave of workers.

  • Tim Duggan
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Clove founder and former Canva head of content Anna Guerrero.

A WA journalism graduate’s journey from radio to Canva, then pasta – and back to tech

Anna Guerrero’s serpentine career path is a testament to the power of going with the flow.

  • Hamish Hastie
Frozen yoghurt chain Yo-Chi is coming of age.

Yo-Chi goes global: Cult favourite frozen yoghurt chain is growing up

The fast-growing Australian frozen dessert business is testing the waters in Singapore – but doesn’t want to look like it’s getting too big.

  • Jessica Yun
Burgtec chief operating officer Michael Blatchford in some of the furniture designed and built for the Western Sydney Airport.

Best seats in the house: New airport brings comfort to the economy class

It could be the ultimate democratisation of air travel: Seats near departure gates that are as soft and upholstered as those in the posh private club lounges.

  • Julie Power
Norwegian-born beauty entrepreneur Gry Susann Tomte.

Beauty clinic founder pays tribute to husband found stabbed to death outside luxury home

Gry Susann Tomte, the Norwegian-born founder of Melbourne-based HÜD luxury beauty clinics, described her husband Zdravko (Zed) Bilic as “the kindest, gentlest person” who was “loved by everyone”.

  • Lauren Ironmonger