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SPC cuts down peaches | Champion's $1.2 billion sale | Zoom dabbles with AI Clones · What the Flux

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  Speaker 1: To win three turbulent stories today HD.
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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 1: as well.
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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 1: market share.
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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 1: percent tariffs on Australian wine after some political tension.
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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 1: Sarah Lady.
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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 2: Early Bras and Sheridan Homework.
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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 1: can define a company's trajectory.
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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 1: stores like Walmart in the US.
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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 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: Yeah, tech announcements like cutting down your meetings by ninety
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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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