DRYBLOWER

The ghost of failures past for Andrew Forrest

IT WAS not the future that frightened Andrew Forrest into sacking 1000 staff last week. It was the past. What the man who created Fortescue Metals saw in his rear-view mirror was the same thing <i>Dryblower</i> saw, the ghost of Anaconda Nickel.

Dryblower

Some people might not see the connection between Fortescue and Anaconda but the two companies are travelling the same track, a decade apart – and Forrest is determined that Fortescue does not run off that...

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