The man who used to like two-minute chairman addresses went on for half-an-hour at yesterday’s Crown AGM, boasting of PBL’s recent performance and making some pre-emptive attacks against the anti-pokies lobby.
Kerry Stokes
WesTrac gives Stokes reason to smile
Kerry Stokes’ fortunes are looking up: not in the Australian media, but in his most important business, WesTrac, which is one of the world’s major distributors of Caterpillar products.
For the West it’s no story without Stokes
You can’t keep a good media proprietor down, writes Perth paper watcher Skink. Kerry Stokes has been gracious enough to appear in his own TV studio, and on the front page of his own paper.
Stokes gives China major win in the West
The Huawei deal illustrates why Kerry Stokes is the best-connected Australian businessman in China.
How Telstra split opens up Foxtel ownership
The announcement that Telstra must separate its retail and wholesale division — including a sell-off of its 50% Foxtel stake — should make Consolidated Media a prime takeover target. Let the media mogul battle begin.
Stokes-Murdoch “showdown” a damp squib
It’s back to business as usual in the Australian media, with Stokes and Packer dividing up the juiciest bits of the industry, just as Kerry Packer and Rupert Murdoch did a decade or so ago.
Crikey Says: Seven requests Consolidated Media interests info
In a sneaky little move at the Australian Stock Exchange this morning, Kerry Stokes moved his Queen’s bishop to attack.
Kennett, Bracks, Jeffed — it’s 10th anniversary season
This is a big call, no doubt, but Jeff Kennett led one of the most reformist and revolutionary governments in any stable western democracy over the past 50 years.
Will Packer use Stokes to get Rupert’s cash?
If James Packer really doesn’t care to be a media owner these days, then he’ll use stalking Kerry Stokes to lever a big price for his pay-TV assets out of Rupert, writes Stephen Mayne.
James Packer’s giant spring clean out
James Packer appears to be in the middle of a personal and professional cleanout, sparked in part by the global financial crisis. He’s flogged off his horses, boat and stake in Seek, the online classifieds company.
Packer v Stokes: who will be Australia’s last media mogul?
James Packer signalled yesterday he will defeat Kerry Stokes’ bid for Consolidated Media Holdings with “exactly the same technique that Stokes used to painstakingly build his control of Seven”. Terry McCrann explains.
Stokes sits on cash, Packer sells the farm
Which media mogul wins? Reports today show that while the Packer media empire is shrinking, the empire Kerry Stokes is building is sitting on $2 billion of cash and sharemarket investments.
Andrew Bolt: what I’ve learned in 50 years
Warning: this isn’t your typical Bolt diatribe. Andrew Bolt reflects on 50 years of life, conceding that there are many things he knows nothing about and that love and family mark as deeper than we’d like to admit.
Stokes’s $300m Cons Media plunge raises eyebrows and anxiety
Nervous watchers are wondering whether Kerry Stokes’s foray into Consolidated Media is a repeat of his plunge into West Australian Newspapers.
Stokes v Packer: Consolidated Media cage match
It was Kerry Stokes’ turn to up his stake in Consolidated Media yesterday, after James Packer boosted his holding the day before.
Kerry stokes his claim in Packer’s holdings
Channel Seven Chairman Kerry Stokes has upped his stakes in James Packer’s media pie, bringing him just a slice away from a takeover.
The Packer-Stokes war hots up
The dinosaurs are restless again. Australia’s last remaining putative media moguls, “Little” Kerry Stokes and “Big” Kerry’s son James Packer, are locking horns over the rump of the media empire that Kerry Packer built.
BRW’s rich listers lose $25b; still way richer than you
As a group, it seems that the members of the Rich 200 have outperformed the ordinary investor to an impressive degree, writes James Thomson.
Channel Seven to buy Fairfax?
Citigroup research released over the weekend lays out the case for a complex bid by the Seven Network to buy Fairfax Media, writes Glenn Dyer.
Kerry Stokes — Australia’s last media magnate
Kerry Stokes is the last media magnate/billionaire standing in this country, writes Glenn Dyer.
How is Seven travelling? Who knows
The Seven Network’s interim result seems to have been concocted at an accountants’ tea party, writes Glenn Dyer.
Armstrong goes; new hope for The West
With editor Paul Armstrong’s departure from The West Australian, the paper now has an opportunity to regain trust and respect, writes Lawrence Apps.
Clean sweep at The West
The announcement of Bob Cronin as WA Newspapers editor-in-chief will place further pressure on editor Paul Armstrong, writes Lawrence Apps.
PBL back from the precipice
Negotiations between PBL Media and its bankers over a recapitalisation deal went down to the wire, writes Glenn Dyer.
Shake-up at The West
Editor Paul Armstrong suddenly looks limp-wristed following yesterday’s announcement that WA Newspapers CEO, the board chairman and two other directors were resigning, writes Lawrence Apps.
