CARTIER watches may be the latest faux pas by Australia Post CEO, Christine Holgate, but it certainly isn't the first.
Holgate is in the headlines this week over alleged management largesse at Australia Post during a Parliamentary hearing which found $3,000 timepieces had been given as staff rewards.
Way back in 2011 when she was CEO of Blackmores, off the cuff comments by Holgate sank a promising partnership between the company and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia on a range of "companion" supplements for patients.
At the launch of the range, Holgate told reporters that pharmacists could provide "the coke and fries" with prescription medications, creating "a new and important revenue stream".
Within days plans to roll out the supplements were scrapped, while Holgate claimed the comment had been taken out of context.
She later conceded that the "coke and fries" reference was "highly unfortunate".
However it certainly didn't damage her sense for the finer things, with Holgate sporting her own $48,000 Bulgari watch on her wrist during the hearings.
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