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Chris Wilkinson: First Retail Group Managing Director on 62 thousand companies being incorporated in the year to July · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Question worth asking around the state of the economy of
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  Speaker 2: things are so bad? Why are so many of us
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  Speaker 2: starting businesses? And we are? Sixty two thousand and sixty
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  Speaker 2: one companies were incorporated in the past year. This is
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  Speaker 2: the most since twenty twenty one. There's almost nineteen hundred
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  Speaker 2: new construction firms, more than one thousand cleaning companies, six
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twelve restaurants, six hundred one clothing retailers. Chris
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  Speaker 2: Wilkinson as the first retail group managing director and he's
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  Speaker 2: with us. Chris Morning, get a Mike. Stats don't lie.
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  Speaker 2: I mean everyone's open upper business. What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? I look with your three three key drivers, I think, Mike,
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  Speaker 3: one is the gig economy is reducing the barriers. And secondly,
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  Speaker 3: we've got inflation bring that GST threshold closer, so it's
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  Speaker 3: pushing people in too make decisions about their businesses. And
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  Speaker 3: that third as people wanting to regain control in life
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  Speaker 3: and self employments.
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  Speaker 2: The way so regain control is interesting because the media
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  Speaker 2: will tell you life is miserable. We're not spending any
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  Speaker 2: money the economies and the doldrums. What you're telling me,
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  Speaker 2: and what these numbers show me is people march to
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  Speaker 2: their own tune. Is that fair?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, we're seeing it across all the communities
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  Speaker 3: we work with around New zund and obseas as well.
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  Speaker 2: Are you seeing anything within these categories, I mean, as
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  Speaker 2: nineteen hundred construction firms, Is that just Bob and his
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  Speaker 2: mate who's got a housing contract he wants to go
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  Speaker 2: back building housing again?
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  Speaker 3: Well, as a lot of these big contracts start to
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  Speaker 3: wind up, these guys for coming out of those or
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  Speaker 3: guys and girls coming out of these projects and going
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  Speaker 3: what are we going to do? Starting up their own
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  Speaker 3: business is really one of the only choices they have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. The immigrant community. I had a conversation with some
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  Speaker 2: immigrants the other day and I find it interesting. Is
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  Speaker 2: there an attitude within the immigrant community that opening a
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  Speaker 2: business is just what they do and there's no shame
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  Speaker 2: in opening one, in closing one, and opening one and
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  Speaker 2: closing one. There's a bit of that about it, and
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  Speaker 2: therefore that's just the way they think about business.
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  Speaker 3: Significantly, and in the provinces we're seeing a lot more
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  Speaker 3: immigrants opening businesses, street businesses, service businesses, those types of things.
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  Speaker 2: Is this bullish? Are you know, fizzed up by this?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Look, I think it's positive. I always find it
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  Speaker 3: positive when we're working in a place and see someone
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  Speaker 3: who's opened a business and they want to make a
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  Speaker 3: go of it where other people didn't see those opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: Good stuff and right nice to talk to us always,
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  Speaker 2: Chris Chris Wilkinson, First Retail Group Managing Director.
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