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GLOBAL RESTRUCTURING EVENTS

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This panel discussion explored how COVID has delivered 5 years of disruption to the retail sector in just 3 months with the move from bricks and mortar to on-line shopping, and how the Australian, Asian and US retail sectors have fared as a result. Some of the key insights were: While globally there has been a shift in what people are spending their money on, the beneficiaries of those shifts have differed regionally. US customers…

Some of the key insights were: The panel unanimously agreed that the global economy had been simmering in the background for quite some time. Corporate debt had reached historic levels by the end of 2019 and global economies were moving into troubled waters. The panel agreed that the pandemic layered on top of significant market disruptions that already existed. The need for strong leadership by governments and business leaders in the face of adversity was…