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DOWN TO BUSINESS

WHEN JANE CAY purchased a small clothing store in Cooma 14 years ago and renamed it Birdsnest, little did she know her fledgling business of five people would grow into a team of 140. Her dream was to launch it online, build it to be the same size as the store in the Snowy Mountains town, 114 kilometres south of Canberra, then replicate it in other country towns. However, the online store quickly

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