Westfield Shopping Center in Doncaster, Victoria. Source: AAP.
The liquidator of art supplies retailer Riot Art & Craft confirmed that the company’s e-commerce arm was sold to a “related entity” before the business collapsed.
Riot arts and crafts closed its 56 stores last week, after going into liquidation and informing staff members by SMS that they were no longer employed.
A post on Riot Art & Craft’s website claims the e-commerce side of the business continues to operate “under new management,” however, former company employees questioned independence new owners.
Riot Art & Craft online business is now operated by a company called Riot Stores Pty Ltd.
According to the Australian Business Register, Riot Store Pty Ltd has been active since January 2020. The terms and conditions page on the Riot Art & Craft website also refers to another entity, a trust, which has been active since April 2020.
Liquidator Nicholas Giasoumi of insolvency firm Dye & Co was appointed to handle the liquidation of SLKALT Pty Ltd, the company that operated the Riot Art & Craft business, on October 19.
Wednesday he confirmed SmartCompany the company entered into a “sales contract in April with a related entity to purchase the e-commerce business operated by the company”.
This related entity has “joint directors” with SLKALT Pty Ltd, confirmed Giasoumi, although he declined to disclose who these directors are.
The company’s intellectual property assets are believed to be part of the sale, including the Riot Art & Craft name, but Giasoumi has confirmed that no physical stores were sold.
Details of the sale will now be considered by the liquidator, although he says at this point that it appears that an independent assessment was carried out prior to the sale and that it “appears to have been done above the board” .
“There is no indication that creditors have been disadvantaged,” Giassoumi said, although a proper investigation is still being carried out.
SmartCompany contacted Michael Kurc, director of SLKALT Pty Ltd, for further comment, but referred all questions to Giasoumi.
Over the past week, former Riot Art & Craft employees have shared their shock upon learning of store closings via text message, along with repeated assurances that more stock will be filling nearly empty shelves.
“They continued to reassure us, even the week before the manager emailed us, saying the stock was on their way,” former employee Sophie Newcome told nine.com.au.
“What angers me the most is that in the last few weeks we started working as usual, hoping to get paid, but we weren’t.
“This is after the last fifteen weeks spent in what was almost an empty store telling customers that stock was arriving this week.”
This article was updated at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday October 29 to include additional information about Riot Stores Pty Ltd.
– A 12-year-old girl, Favor Adebayo, is a proud tailor of her trade as she asks people to patronize her department
– In a post on Twitter, she asked people to retweet her for wide patronage as she also does door-to-door deliveries
– When people pointed out that it is dangerous as a minor to go to people’s homes, Favor and a family member replied that an elderly person always follows her
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In a time when adults are looking for new ways to make money as the global economy crumbles due to the raging pandemic, Lagos State baby girl Favor Adebayo has already charted its path to economic independence.
At 12, Favor took to Twitter with his incredible tailoring skills. The intelligent girl not only learns the trade, she is already working as a tailor.
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Armed with the endless possibilities of social media, the 12-year-old is ready to give plenty of competition in the trade a good run.
In a tweet she made on Tuesday, May 11, the girl is not only proud to be a tailor, but said she is open for business and can offer a home service to anyone interested in the condition. .
As is customary on the micro-messaging platform, she asked Twitter users to help her retweet her business on their TL so that it could have a wider reach.
Favor tweeted: Hello everyone! My name is Faveur. I am 12 years old. A proud tailor, I live in Lagos and have a passion for sewing. I can come to your home, get your measurement and still deliver to you. PLS RT when you see this my clients could be on your TL. Thank you very much and God bless you “
With the way her post received a lot of positive feedback from people, she might soon have a flood of orders. Below are some reactions:
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When someone explained how dangerous it can be to go to people alone, an older family member said he was accompanying him.
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A collage of the 12 year old taking measurements and his room. Photo source: Twitter / Favor Adebayo Source: Twitter
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported earlier that there is simply no limit to how Nigerians will make a living and create a better future while putting their amazing skills to good use.
A bright 17-year-old, Popoola Kehinde Esther, gained media attention after a Twitter user with the handle @ThepreciousAda posted her video online.
The bright girl is repairing heavy equipment, forklifts. The teenager hopes to study engineering and complement her mechanical expertise.
The Twitter user’s father asked him to post the video of the girl so his assistants could locate her and make her dream come true. In the clip, the SS2 student said she has a strong passion for the work she does.
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Daniel Kunin’s 2017 statistical visualization project “Seeing Theory” recently caught the attention of students, schools and educators. Working alongside Rhode Island School of Design graduate Tyler Devlin ’17, Daniel Xiang ’17 and Jingru Guo, Kunin created visually stunning representations of statistical concepts ranging from probability to inference. The website uses real-world examples to supplement classroom learning.
Kunin teamed up with Guo for the final project in a web applications course at Brown, and together the team created the first version of “Seeing Theory”.
“The (original) goal was to create these interactive visualizations that could contextualize the concepts in an introductory statistics course,” Kunin said.
“All of the (previous) resources seemed out of date and I couldn’t find any interactive visualizations,” Xiang said. “Today’s online education was in plain text with no interaction. After being accepted as a Royce member to continue his work on the project, Kunin shared the team’s work with a few data scientists and math bloggers, one of whom tweeted about it.
The project has gone viral.
Since its launch, “Seeing Theory” has grown from being just an additional resource to more of a living online manual, Kunin said. “We have significantly expanded the written content,” he added. “We provide more detailed written context for each visualization. We’ve also added a whole new chapter on Bayesian Inference and changed a lot of visualizations.
Xiang said he was excited about the clarity of the explanations offered by “Seeing Theory”, given the complexity of the subject, he said. “It’s all in a small, concise bite-sized module, and it’s really accessible. ”
With RISD training, Guo brought “a whole new perspective on design” to the project that the rest of the team didn’t own, Kunin said. The project helped her launch her career as a designer, teaching her how to create a product from scratch using modern design tools, Guo added.
Xiang joined the project after Kunin’s initial work with Guo, and they discussed expanding their team to include Devlin. “We got together at New Baja and sat for two hours talking about the project,” he said. “I thought (the project) would be a good way to consolidate all these topics that I had taken up in undergraduate.”
Kunin sees the development of “Seeing Theory” coming to an end in the near future. The team hopes to tackle the remaining bugs before volunteers take over to translate the website into Italian, Chinese, Polish and a number of other languages, he said. “We’ll get to a point where we’re happy with the results, (and) then we’ll just let it become a resource on the Internet.”
“Working on any project, it’s always hard to say it’s a place where I can end up. Guo said. “There is always a balance between finish and perfection.
Xiang hopes the project will be integrated into classrooms to help visual learners, although it is not intended to completely replace first-grade statistical education.
“Aesthetics are a very important part of learning,” Kunin said. “Math especially; for me math is a very beautiful field and for some students the best way to teach math is to share this beautiful side.
What happens when you blend some of the best Speyside whiskeys in the world, an outspoken culinary master and a bespoke motorcycle builder? You get gross. Raw craftsmanship, This is. The online series, produced by the Balvenie distillery, highlights rare artisans in the United States who share their craft with an audience of nearly 40 million viewers since 2015. Producer of some of Speyside’s finest single malt Scotch whiskey, the famous spirits brand called on Anthony Bourdain, the author, television personality and celebrity chef to host the series.
Now in its third season, the show has explored a variety of trades, including shoemakers, typographers, whiskey distillers, and even a cutler who handles meteorites for cutlery. The latest episode debuts today, one that stars motorcycle builder Maxwell Hazan from Hazan Motorworks.
Max Hazan and Anthony Bourdain hit the road
Photo: Courtesy of Balvenie
Hazan produced 15 custom bikes during his career, ranging in cost from $ 30,000 to over $ 100,000, with high-end bikes taking over six months to build. Its unmistakably styled bikes feature vintage motors, hand-formed aluminum and, at least in one case, a blown-glass oil tank.
As the episode began filming in downtown Los Angeles, RobbReport.com had the chance to sit with Hazan and Bourdain in the Hazan Motorworks workshop. The 800-square-foot enclave, perched high above the Fashion District and beyond the vibrant chaos of fruit vendors and assorted textiles, is a gearhead’s paradise – a studio where bikes are both functional and formalities materialize in motorized sculptures like no other.
Antoine, why did you choose Max Hazan as the subject for this series?
Anthony Bourdain: She’s a remarkable person who makes extraordinary things by hand, in direct contrast to conventional wisdom and the expectation of what one should do with one’s life – it’s a romantic notion that I feel. attracted.
What was it like to ride a Hazan Motorworks motorcycle?
AB: We were in what is called Pinto Valley, and it was awesome. I’m a novice and he showed me how to do it given my limited skills, it was amazing.
Hazan Motorworks Supercharged Ironhead Ducati
Photo: Courtesy of Shaik Ridzwan
How are Max’s motorcycles different from others you’ve ridden throughout your life?
AB: Well, I think you just have to look at them to understand the work that goes into it, that each piece is made by hand, it shows at first glance. They ride like any bike I have ever experienced.
Is it their aesthetic that you find so convincing?
AB: Yes, but they are also fully functional. There are no superfluous design features on its bikes. Everything works, everything has a purpose. They are quite minimal and beautiful.
I can appreciate minimalism and maximalism. I tend to aspire to austerity. It is in a way the Japanese minimalist approach, a flower in a vase rather than an entire bouquet, beauty reduced to the essential. But I like something really extravagant and baroque sometimes too, it depends on my mood.
Max Hazan and Anthony Bourdain in Max’s studio sharing a glass of Balvenie whiskey
Photo: Courtesy of Balvenie
Max, what do you find so distinctive about your motorcycles?
Max Hazan: I was ready for that question, because I thought Anthony would ask me. On paper, there isn’t much of a difference. There are two wheels and a motor. But you don’t have to be a motorcycle enthusiast to love my bikes. Suppose someone walks by the parked motorcycle, they don’t need to know what kind of bike it is, but it does affect them. I think that’s the difference. It’s something that appeals to everyone, whether they understand the mechanics or not.
Does every bike have an owner before it is finished?
MH: Now it is. And that’s how I like to build bikes. It was a little scary at first when I was going to spend six months building something and didn’t know what was going to happen. So when I have a commissioned project, that’s fine, because I have a schedule to build it, and I always stick to the schedule. I treat it like I treat my old business [an interior design & contracting company in New York City]. I have to finish on time, I have to deliver and it should be.
Is there anyone else involved in the building process?
MH: I have part-time help coming in but it’s really difficult when you build a one-off creation to delegate the processes. I have tried and I usually end up with someone looking at me. It’s hard. If someone asked me to build an exact replica of an existing bike, I would have a team of three. We would finish it in a month. But there would be nothing unique about the bike. That’s why it’s starting from scratch every time.
It seems to be part of your creative force. You approach each bike with a fresh outlook, challenging your own artistic personality.
MH: I still think that maybe one day the well will run dry. What will happen when I can’t think of anything? But usually at some point in each project I have an idea for another. So far, I haven’t missed one.
Does each bike start on the drawing board?
MH: I usually start from an idea of an engine, a valuable engine that is a unique mechanical part. Usually the engine will dictate what I want to build around it and then I start to introduce it.
Hazan Motorworks Supercharged KTM Motorcycle Featured In Raw Craft Episode
Photo: Courtesy of Shaik Ridzwan
Where do you find your inspiration?
MH: I find that if you take care of the rest of your life, your health, your personal relationships, and you think with a clear mind, then it will come. I’ve always been obsessed with making things no matter what, I just loved building things from my imagination. I didn’t have a predetermined goal to become a motorcycle builder. I built a few motorized creations from bike parts in my dad’s garage when I was injured from an off-road driving accident and unable to work. I suddenly found myself making custom motorcycles.
How has your building process evolved over the years?
MH: I’m self-taught with all of this, I didn’t do my apprenticeship with anyone. Usually it’s all in my head unless it’s a precision part for an engine, so I’m going to write everything down because there is a control and, with the engine, there isn’t a lot of room to error, everything must be done perfectly.
When I first worked for myself, it was hard, because you don’t know when you’ve done enough; there is no reference for when the day begins or ends. So now I work ten hours a day and then I go home. I find that after ten hours productivity, like the efficiency of the brain, drops. You start to make mistakes and go down the wrong path.
Do you have a favorite bike that has been around the world? Or is it still to come?
MH: They’re all coming. I really like the process of building the bikes. A lot of people ask me if I am sad when they leave. Not really. I’m usually ready for the next one. I mean, I have a little attachment to everyone, but it all comes out for me during the creation process, and I can move on.
For more information or to place an order, contact Max Hazan at [email protected]
Fresh eyes and a fresh perspective can fuel business growth, even for a business that has been around for a few years, like JQ Dickinson Salt-Works in Malden.
That’s what co-founder Nancy Bruns said after the salt-making company, which began in 1817, received help last week from four University of Michigan MBA students to develop an online marketplace for Appalachian food and craft vendors. The students spent a week at the company and gave Bruns a 32-page report on Friday on how to grow the website and get more businesses in the area to participate.
“I think as a business owner it’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day work and lose sight of your long-term vision,” Bruns said. “I’ve always wanted to have a platform for local growth, and having this expertise in town to help me is something I don’t want to refuse.”
The students visited JQ Dickinson Salt-Works as part of the University of Michigan’s Ross Open Road initiative, based on Harvard University’s Across America MBA program, which helps local businesses across America to achieve their community development goals.
This year, three teams each visited five small businesses in five weeks. The WCKD team, consisting of Wiles Kase, Colleen Hill, Kenji Kaneko and Dilparinder Singh, made their final stop at JQ Dickinson Salt-Works.
The program helps students gain experience outside of the classroom by immersing them in real life situations where they are required to quickly learn about the company and its situation, Hill said. In return, companies receive help from students in anything they aim to implement, whether it is strategic planning, awareness and marketing, or adjusting some aspect of their business. operations, she added.
“This attracts an atypical business student who wants to understand local businesses across the country,” Hill said. “A lot of [the program] concerns the social impact that these entrepreneurs can have if given the right direction.
Traveling by rental car, the team began their trip to Michigan, helping the Detroit Training Center launch a program connecting Flint residents with employment opportunities. The team then traveled to Omaha, Nebraska, to help Gilden Tree, a small business specializing in eco-friendly body care products, followed by Ba-Nom-a-Nom of Denver, which sells a fruit alternative to ice cream. The fourth destination was New Orleans, where the team worked with the Roots of Renewal community development association in New Orleans on a marketing campaign.
After wrapping up their week with Roots of Renewal, the team was eager to help JQ Dickinson Salt-Works in his efforts to boost similar businesses in the region.
“When we learned [Bruns’] passion for community development and helping entrepreneurs in this field to sell their products nationwide and get more business, that intrigued me and all my teammates very much, ”said Hill.
The JQ Dickinson Salt-Works story also caught the team’s interest, Hill said. The business dates back to when the Dickinsons first drilled for brine – the source of salt – from the ancient Iapetus Ocean beneath the Appalachian Mountains. The Kanawha Valley rose to prominence in salt production soon after, but Dickinson’s salt trade eventually died out in the 1940s, Bruns said.
Bruns and Lewis Payne, two descendants of the Dickinson family, relaunched the company in 2013. The company still uses the Iapetus Ocean as a source of brine, which is evaporated in solar greenhouses, and then the remaining salt is harvested at the hand. This salt is then packaged and sold to customers, which include more than 500 different retailers and restaurants nationwide, according to Bruns.
With JQ Dickinson being the last stop on the tour, the WCKD team had gotten used to the initiative process for each company.
“We arrived on Sunday and Monday, we’ve gathered all the information we can about the company,” Kaneko said. “On Tuesday we started to take charge of the project and understood what we really wanted to do with [J.Q. Dickinson Salt-Works’] online platform.
Ahead of the team’s visit, Bruns said she originally wanted JQ Dickinson Salt-Works to help distribute products from local suppliers to retailers. That quickly changed once the students arrived and noted the low profit margins involved in going through a middleman, and instead suggested developing a website where sellers could show and sell their products, according to Bruns.
Bruns said she liked the idea because it still worked towards her goal of helping local businesses, including her own, expand their presence nationwide. About 13 companies are considering entering the online marketplace, including Brookstone Soaps and Bluestone Mountain Farm, she added.
“There really is a future in Appalachian cuisine,” Bruns said. “If we can partner with and promote other artisans and suppliers, it can really help everyone in West Virginia grow.”
Kase said many of the initiative’s companies are startups without a lot of capital or an established brand to work with, but JQ Dickinson Salt-Works was the opposite.
“We have been able to operate at a higher level here on the strategic and tactical spectrum,” he said. “So we can really make their project bigger and better than what we’ve done before. “
Bruns said she hopes programs like the Ross Open Road initiative will make West Virginia a frequent stop to help local businesses in the state improve and improve others.
“I feel very lucky to have been a part of the program,” she said. “It’s hard to say in words how valuable something like this is to a business. “
Launch of a new Maison Numen online platform with Latin American crafts
Nowadays, people are increasingly interested in the authenticity of their design – always intrigued by the craftsman behind the cutlery or the craftsman responsible for the intricate weaving of their rugs. The new Maison Numen online store takes it a step further, capturing design stories from hidden corners in often overlooked areas of the design world.
The brand’s first project explores Latin America. From the craftsmen of the peripheral Venezuelan part of the Andes to the Mexican colonial pockets, Maison Numen shares these indigenous talents in a first collection entitled “Latin Animae Vol 1”.
The inaugural range includes textiles, woodwork and ceramics, all from Peru, Guatemala, Venezuela, Mexico or Colombia. What they have in common: they are all handcrafted in their region of origin, transposing their cultural characteristics into unique works of art.
After traveling themselves to collect the creations, the founders Jessica Macias and Ana Caufman strive to share the special culture of their star designers, telling us about the difficulties they had to cross these places. The Amazon River in Venezuela, for example: “Everything is dry right now,” says Bader Gonzalez, Marketing Director of Numen, “so you can’t even access it right now”.
Ordered according to the themes “Atlas”, “History” or “Materials” on the Maison Numen website, each piece has a personality and character that relates to its origin. There is a slight quirk in the Talavera technique and katalox wood that can only be found in Mexico, and a sense of softness in the organic “Wii” baskets created in the Amazon rainforest by its female indigenous inhabitants.
While many of these pieces remain traditional in style, a contemporary look is evident in the clean, creamy ceramics made from Jiutepec clay, from Morelos, Mexico. Designers have rejuvenated the tropical material and turned it into modern, minimalist design pieces.
“We grew up with them,” Macias says when asked which model was his favorite, “they’re our babies! The Maison Numen is launching a second collection, ‘Latin Animae Vol 2’, in September.
“We are students. The first year. The first five years, the first 10 years. We are students after 50 years. I never like to give advice, but I wanted to teach what I would have liked someone to teach me. ‘learn,’ said Dustin Hoffman.
“I wanted my class to feel like you’re there on the field with me. It’s like having a private lesson,” said Serena williams.
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“We pair world-class instructors with Hollywood Silicon Valley filmmakers and engineers to create a whole new online learning experience. This experience is MasterClass, ”said David Rogier, co-founder and CEO of MasterClass.
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