There may be matters of greater commercial importance to Tabcorp chief executive Gillon McLachlan but there are none so symbolically salient as achieving a national tote pool.
When Gillon McLachlan got his feet under the desk at Tabcorp in early August, after seven weeks as an observer, the waft of “the trash” being taken out must have been still in the building.
What confronted him was a one-time corporate behemoth in need of a major tune-up.
But in crisis, there was opportunity.
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