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Baby Bunting: Restructuring
Baby Bunting lowered full-year profit guidance from $18.5M-$19.5M to $16M-$17M (50-64% YoY growth) citing RBA rate rises, fuel costs, and consumer spending weakness; same-store sales growth downgraded from 6-8% to 3%.
Source: Inside Retail AU
The leadership read
Restructuring typically reshapes retail - baby leadership bench strength toward transformation and turnaround capability.
Market context: MitchelLake's Talent Market Index sits at 113.7 (Hot), up 13.7 on the prior month; Oceania hiring signal is running steady (+0.6pts).
Baby Bunting: 1 signal in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Oceania signal flow.
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