Sumitomo Forestry takes half of Wisdom Homes. Japan's home builders are continuing to push into the Australian market, this time with Sumitomo Forestry Co acquiring a controlling 51 per cent stake in Wisdom Properties Group, which builds home and land packages. Wisdom Homes builds about 400 houses annually, with more than 150 employees and 500 construction contractors.
Wedding Planner Salary: How Top Planners Earn $120,000+/Year. The wedding industry in the United States is a gigantic one, with over 2 million weddings taking place across the country every year and over 80 billion dollars spent annually.
Weddings don't come cheap -- and neither do wedding planners. The latest Real Weddings Study from wedding information website The Knot -- which surveyed almost 18,000 U.S. brides who married in 2015 -- revealed the cost for a wedding planner averaged $1,996, and $32,641 on a wedding overall (excluding the honeymoon).