2021 Annual Report
The Trusts are holding their annual meetings next week and they’ve invited questions by email. We’ve taken a bit of a look at their Annual Report and here are some of our observations.
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Transparency: the gulf between words and actions
The Trusts have just dumped a pile of information and heralded a new dawn of transparency. But is it a false dawn?
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West Liquor’s eye-watering prices
Are West Liquor’s prices just a few cents higher or are we being taken to the cleaners? See what our comprehensive price survey reveals…
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Annual Report 2020
Results from pre-COVID show dramatic falls in profit alongside a huge CEO salary and head office expenses growing at 15% year on year.
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WATS the problem?
The joint venture structure employed by The Trusts and their use of it to avoid legislated disclosures is scandalous. They are blatantly circumventing the intent of the legislation. It might not be criminal… but it should be.
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Nothing to see here
The Trusts are giving us a master-class on how to avoid official information requests. Here are their tactics
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Guilty but unrepentant
The Trusts remain unrepentant despite the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruling that The Trusts’ statements were “likely to mislead consumers”. Their submissions to the ASA are enlightening so here are some of the best...
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A load of hogwash… but not misleading
The Trusts claim might be batshit crazy, but apparently making crazy claims doesn’t break the advertising rules
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Our information requests
For those that are interested in the details, here is the full set of correspondence from our information requests sent to The Trusts: Information request 1 Request sent 9 May 2018 Response received 8 June 2018, further response received 22 June...
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