Sean Aylmer

That didn't work.

Some non-retail businesses have made a pretty good fist of it.

Packaging company Emcor and insurer QBE have steadily acquired businesses over many, many years.

Harvey Norman, the retailer,

It's done a pretty good job building stores from the ground itself, establishing its own brand in countries including Ireland and Slovenia.

Then there are companies like Guzman y Gomez, who went abroad, in this case the US, tested the waters and then decided to drop plans to expand internationally, at least for now.

You've had Domino's Pizza, had the rights to parts of Europe, did pretty well in some parts, not so well in Japan.

So, point is...

It is not an easy road to go and buy an offshore asset and make it work.

Yeah, I mean, Mario Brocchi is not a shrinking violet.

He's a man on a mission and has been since 1980 when he started the business.

Then later in the day, Iran fired missiles at US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan.

This series of attacks, I mean, again, it tests the, how do we describe it, fragile ceasefire between Iran, Israel and the US.

Donald Trump was speaking throughout this period.

He obviously wanted to respond to the downing of the helicopter.

He's making threats against all sides, really.

The shooting down of the helicopter came hours after Trump intervened to halt an escalatory cycle of tit-for-tat attacks between Iran and Israel that threatened to reignite a full-blown war in the region.

Yeah, I mean, I agree.

I wonder whether it's in part because of the problematic nature of the US in all this.

It's not necessarily a patient opponent, and Iran knows that.