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ABC News
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Utopia: Trailer
Skip to main content Go back to home page Home Live TV Shows Movies ABC News ABC Kids Categories Utopia. A satire about the difficult process of taking grand, uncosted, inadequately planned, fundamentally flawed schemes - and passing them off as "Nation Building". Rob Sitch, Celia Pacquola, Kitty Flanagan, Luke McGregor, Anthony Lehmann, Dave Lawson, Emma-Louise Wilson, Toby Truslove, Michelle Lim Davidson
AU Financial Review
19-05-2025
- Business
- AU Financial Review
The James Hardie and Azek merger makes no strategic sense
In what universe does the James Hardie and its merger with Azek make any strategic sense? The reasons given are spurious at best and read like something out of comedian Rob Sitch's television show Utopia. Every cliché has been rolled from cultural alignment to revenue synergies. The best companies – the good to great ones – almost always focus on one industry, or one niche product group within an industry, and are relentless in developing and protecting their competitive advantage. They focus on one space and own it. From the Coca-Cola Company to Cochlear it is sticking to your knitting and staying within your core area of competence that is the hallmark of most great and enduring companies, the companies that deliver excellent long-term compounding returns for shareholders.
