Australia
International
Retail
January 2018
Vol.11, No. 42, Winter 2018
Anne Mustow
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Anne Mustow’s role at Bunnings includes responsibility for legal, internal audit, customer relations, insurance and company secretarial across Australia and New Zealand. Anne established the business’ in-house legal function 11 years ago, and has managed that function throughout a period of extraordinary growth of the business. In addition to experience as an in-house lawyer at several other large Australian companies, she was formerly a Corporate Partner of Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) and spent 10 years volunteering as a non-executive director on not-for-profit boards. Anne has particular interests in business strategy, maximising effectiveness and efficiency of in-house legal teams and the in-house practice of competition and consumer law.
Bunnings Group
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Bunnings is the leading retailer of home improvement and outdoor living products in Australia and New Zealand and a major supplier to project builders, commercial tradespeople and the housing industry. Operating from a network of approximately 360 locations comprising large warehouse stores, smaller format stores, trade centres and frame and truss manufacturing sites, Bunnings caters for consumer and commercial customers. Bunnings’ annual turnover in Australia and New Zealand is around A$11 billion, and the business has achieved extraordinary growth since the first Bunnings Warehouse opened in 1994. In late February 2016, Bunnings completed the acquisition of Homebase, the second largest home improvement and garden business operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and is in the process of rolling out a Bunnings network of stores there.
Australia
International
Retail
January 2018
Vol.11, No. 42, Winter 2018