Brisbane should prepare for shortages of everything from cut flowers to ice cubes when the Olympics come to town, warns the former Paris Games chief financial officer who watched the event suck up resources from unexpected corners of France’s economy.
Fabrice Lacroix, who led the Paris Olympics’ finance team for more than seven years, said one lesson for Brisbane was that huge supply constraints would hit not just the construction industry, but all types of businesses, including small ones.
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