Super Group joins retail rout

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Via AFR:

Shares in Super Retail Group slumped 15 per cent on Tuesday as weaker than expected first-half profit and full-year guidance compounded doubts over the $135 million acquisition of adventure wear retailer Macpac.

Super Retail Group, which owns Rebel Sport, Super Cheap Auto, BCF and Rays, confirmed the acquisition of New Zealand-based Macpac after reporting a disappointing 3 per cent fall in December-half net profit to $72.2 million.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.