Tontine Group what is a commodity market," she said. "In other countries there is no market leader because manufacturers tended to stay in their local areas." As the company is well known, it is referenced in jokes. For example, an Australian legal newsletter said of an alleged swindler who padded his timesheets "that at one stage pillow makers Tontine were said to be interested in sponsoring him." Duvets in Australia are known by the genericized trademark "Doona"; the brand name is owned by the Tontine Group. The brand name was acquired by Tontine in 1991 when Pacific Dunlop took over the Northern
Marra Developments Ltd v BW Rofe Pty Ltd the losses between the end of the financial year in which these accounts are produced cannot be used to prevent, on legal grounds, the declaration and payment of a dividend, unless the subsequent revealed losses invalidate the accounts themselves. Any other approach makes the right of a shareholder to a dividend which has been declared entirely capricious. Marra Developments Ltd v BW Rofe Pty Ltd Marra Developments Ltd v BW Rofe Pty Ltd, is a NSW Court of Appeal case on Australian company law, and is an authority for the proposition that an interim dividend was revocable until the dividend