{"id":87747,"date":"1999-12-31T00:44:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/40-retravision-stores-defect-to-betta\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:44:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:44:00","slug":"40-retravision-stores-defect-to-betta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/40-retravision-stores-defect-to-betta\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Retravision Stores Defect to Betta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Betta is better: 40 Retravision stores jumped ship to the Betta Group.<\/p>\n<table style=\"\" align=\"Right\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"300\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"javascript:;\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/20120807121738d39fd.jpg', 'foo', 'width=400, height=546, scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes');\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/articleimages\/20120807121738d39fd_300x300.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>Click to enlarge<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>40 stores from the Retravision group in Australia have defected to the BSR group, which now trades as Betta Home Living, &nbsp;including&nbsp;6 stores from Retravision Northern group (Qld, North NSW), 32 from Southern ((Vic, Tas, &amp; Southern N W) and 2 from the West (WA, SA &amp; NT).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>104 stores from the Retravision Southern group went bust earlier this year and are believed to have debts in the tens of millions.<\/p>\n<p>The change was confirmed to ChannelNews by Betta group CEO Graeme Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of today, 6 stores from Northern, 32 stores from the Southern group and 2 from the West that we can confirm at this point.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;These are stores that are trading now as BSR members.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham&nbsp; also confirmed Betta are &#8220;in ongoing discussions to assist other stores where possible.&#8221;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The stores will operate as Betta Home Living franchisees and pushes the number of stores in its franchise network to over 160. <\/p>\n<p>Retravision was not available for comment when contacted by ChannelNews. <\/p>\n<p>Last week Grays Online began flogging electrical goods on the cheap from three Retravision NSW stores that went bust under the instructions of administrators. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betta is better: 40 Retravision stores jumped ship to the Betta Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":94141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-hardware","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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