A department store employee wheels clothes across Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall on August 5 2020, as retailers prepared to close their doors to customers.
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The fact that Westfield’s founders are moving out of physical store development to invest in innovative retail technology shows what’s to come in Australian retail.
Westfield Retail Trust’s chairman Richard Warburton deferred a vote on controversial plans to spin off the group.
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Roman Lanis, University of Technology Sydney and Ross McClure, University of Technology Sydney
Reports of the Westfield Group’s attempts to push through a A$15 billion restructure - complete with a boisterous showdown last Thursday - have mostly concentrated around the effect of the deal on its…