Welcome to the Asset Management Council’s third post on Fluidity in Assets. This time, we travel to the United Kingdom, to Dyson. Traditionally the home of the bagless vacuum cleaner, the company has been asked by the UK government to supply ventilators, in this time of crisis due to COVID-19.
It’s throwback Monday! Please enjoy this week’s five asset management videos carefully selected for you:
In the second on our series in Fluidity of Assets, we look at buildings and how they are currently being repurposed to provide new ways to help the community during the coronavirus pandemic.
Let’s head to Western Australia. Nineteen kilometres off the coast of Fremantle, lies Rottnest Island, famous as the home to Australia’s cutest marsupial, the Quokka. However, the infographic gives a brief history of the building assets on the island, and how they have been constructed and repurposed over time.
And most recently, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Western Australian prime minister is considering the option of Rottnest Island being a quarantine zone1, highlighting again the fluidity of assets to meet stakeholder and community needs.
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The Asset Management Council invites you to take a quick look at the ways in which businesses are altering manufacturing and production in a series of posts on Fluidity in Assets.
When the supermarket aisles recently became bare of hand sanitiser, Australian gin and rum manufacturers switched their business to produce medical-grade hand sanitiser. Gin company SevenZeroEight, owned by Shane Warne and named for the total number of wickets taken in his cricket career, advised that an agreement had been made to provide a continuous supply of 70% alcohol hand sanitiser at cost to two Western Australian hospitals1.