Areas of Service | Manufacturing & Retail
Manufacturing & Retail
The manufacturing sector employs more than one million people and accounts for more than half the nation’s merchandise exports.In the face of international competition, especially from the emerging economies of Asia with low-cost labour, successful manufacturers increasingly rely on adding value and finding more efficient ways of doing business just like we do at Middletons.
Manufacturers choose us as a legal services supplier because we understand the markets in which they operate. We don’t spend time learning at our clients’ expense.
Similarly some of Australia’s largest retailers seek our advice on a range of commercial matters from branding, property management, trade practices and the supply chain. We work with you from the seeds of invention protecting your intellectual property through the manufacture, distribution, promotion and retail sale of your product and beyond in the case of warranties and the like.
We work with you to protect your trade marks, designs and inventions. From there we can advise throughout the set-up of your manufacturing facility – with leases and workplace relations – and your corporate structures and tax. We can assist with mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other capital raising schemes.
We can help you through the complexity of the supply chain, and tap into emerging trends such as GPS tracking. We can liaise with large retailers in the selling process, help with the legal issues in your advertising and marketing campaigns and keep you full abreast of your obligations to compete within the law.
