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Johannes Faul
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Harvey Norman’s Franchisees Lose Market Share as Overseas Operations Benefit From Flagship Stores

No-moat rated Harvey Norman’s first-half sales and profit growth tracked below our prior full-year expectations, and we’ve slightly downgraded our near-term outlook. After a slow first half in the core Australian franchising operation, we expect the remainder of fiscal 2019 to be challenging as consumers grapple with relatively sluggish wage growth, a weakening housing market, and associated negative wealth effect as well as uncertainty around the upcoming Australian federal elections in May 201...
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Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd

Harvey Norman Holdings is engaged in integrated retail, franchise, property and digital system. Co.'s business activities include: franchisor; sale of furniture, bedding, computers, communications and consumer electrical products in New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Slovenia, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Croatia; property investment; lessor of premises to Harvey Norman®, Domayne® and Joyce Mayne® franchisees and other third parties; media placement; and provision of consumer finance and other commercial advances.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Johannes Faul

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