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Jessica Yun

Jessica Yun

Jessica Yun is a business reporter covering retail and food for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Daniel Agostinelli, chief executive of shoe retailer Accent Group, is facing an ASIC investigation into potential insider trading.

‘Step down’: Owner of Platypus, Athlete’s Foot cops hostile bid from UK investor

Fed up with footwear retailer Accent Group’s recent ailing performance, its biggest investor – UK retail giant Frasers – has taken matters into its own hands.

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Barbeques Galore is expected to close after a plan to restructure the retailer failed.

Barbeques Galore to close; up to 500 jobs to go

A deal to resurrect the speciality retailer from financial failure has collapsed – a development that will lead to its closure. 

  • Colin Kruger and Jessica Yun
Grill’d founder Simon Crowe has defended his company’s record after being mired in pay disputes and hit with a class action.

After more than a decade of pay disputes, Grill’d boss insists his staff come first

Simon Crowe believes he hasn’t been doing a good enough job talking up the merits of his burger chain, which has been dogged by persistent wage disputes.

  • Jessica Yun
Restaurants are now using AI to pick up the phone.

Hi, how may AI help you? Meet the new restaurant concierge picking up your calls

Australian eateries miss more than 25 million phone inquiries a year. Serial entrepreneur Stevan Premutico reckons his new start-up should answer the phone instead.

  • Jessica Yun
Steve Marks holds hope of re-entering the US one day.

Guzman y Gomez founder Steve Marks has not given up on his American dream

Investors are glad to see the Mexican fast food chain abandon the US. The irrepressible burrito salesman behind the company wants to have another crack.

  • Jessica Yun
BTS fans are livid at Ticketmaster for refusing to release ticket pricing information until just before the point of sale.

‘Should be illegal’: BTS fans livid over Ticketmaster’s ‘very predatory’ hidden prices

The global ticketing platform, found to have an illegal monopoly in the US, has infuriated some of the most dedicated and mobilised K-pop fans in the world.

  • Jessica Yun
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Steven Marks, pictured outside one of Guzman y Gomez’s US outlets, has pulled the plug on the expansion.

Guzman founder moved to Chicago to save its US dream. It wasn’t enough

The Australian-founded Mexican chain has spent six years and more than $100 million on its US expansion, but on Friday announced it was shutting down all stores in the country.

  • Jessica Yun
Stock image shows a woman working from home, which the Fair Work Commission ruled was acceptable in this case.

Mum wins WFH rights, late start time, so she can drop kids at school

The Fair Work Commission ruling follows another case last year when a mother who had moved far from her office defeated a return to office mandate.

  • Jessica Yun
As consumers become more body conscious, protein is being added to a dizzying range of food.

From protein Weet-Bix to protein coffee, food makers are cashing in on Australians’ body dreams

Protein water, protein cereal, protein popcorn and protein jelly: the recent flood of products boasting this macronutrient has astonished even those in the industry.

  • Jessica Yun
Woolworths CEO Amanda Bardwell.

Woolworths will be ‘more transparent’ with prices on the rise, vows CEO

As the fuel crisis drives up inflation across the economy, Woolworths says it will freeze prices on 300 items for three months from Friday.

  • Jessica Yun