New Zealand’s largest renewable energy supplier has switched on some big results. It’s hard to ignore returns showing 34 percent spike in revenue and 292 percent hike in profits after
I am CEO and feel that my board is too involved in operational issues. I am constantly doing things for the board instead of doing the right things for the
It’s been an exciting year for information technology and communications (ICT). For the first time since the dotcom bust of the early 2000s, there’s been buzz in the air. And
TOP 200 JUDGES Dr Roderick Deane is chairman of Fletcher Building and the New Zealand Seed Fund. He is director of the Australian company Woolworths. He is also patron and
• Cover Story • Deloitte/Management magazine Executive of the Year – Greg Muir, Pumpkin Patch • Deloitte/Management magazine Company of the Year – Fletcher Building • NZIM/Eagle Technology Young Executive
TO: Kim, Murray, Steve, Cath, Kurt FROM: Bob SUBJECT: RE: Things for the website Murray and the IT team are starting on the new website. Could you all let him
The business I manage currently has over 100 vacancies. An engineering consultancy with 1800 staff across Australasia, Asia and beyond, Beca and its competitors are struggling to find and keep
Should companies flash the cash or rev up the benefits of the company car? Sheffield’s Sherry Maier on what her organisation’s local remuneration surveys reveal.
It should come as no surprise to aficionados of the Top 200 Awards that the Fisher & Paykel name crops up once more. In the previous 16 years, the company
Working in an environmentally sensitive fossil fuel-based industry, it pays to think long term. And that is precisely what this year’s winner of the NZIM/Eagle Technology Young Executive of the
UK-based writer Joe Cushnan questions the religious fervour behind corporate mission statements.
• Reg Birchfield is Management magazine’s publisher and can’t resist reviewing some of the books that land on the editor’s desk. • Jonathan Dodd is based at market research company
Snowy Peak, Emerging Enterprise of the Year in 2004, takes top spot in this catagory this year for its exemplary ethical leadership. Since its establishment in 1981, sustainability has been
Education is something nearly everyone has an opinion about – which means that Howard Fancy has probably had more gratuitous advice than most CEOs on how to do his job. At the end of his 10-year tenure, Vicki Jayne asks – how does this self-described “rigorous pragmatist” measure his own success as head of the Ministry of Education?
What will it take to get top executives into environmentally friendly motors?
It is hard, say our judges, to look at this year’s list of Top 200 companies and find any that do not bear traces of the legacies of Sir Roger
It’s tempting to think that Greg Muir has green fingers, for his time at Pumpkin Patch has been noteworthy for huge growth spurt in the company’s fortunes. Since he took
Fletcher Building nails the big one. After three consecutive years as finalist for the top company slot, this savvy Kiwi company pips its competitors to the post and takes out
This is the story of very small cheese that is ripe for success. Open Country Cheese was formed back in 2001, the same day legislation restructuring the dairy industry was
There’s something very heart warming about company as long in the tooth as this one winning an award for best growth strategy. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has, of course, only
Being best in the world is not something that happens overnight – but a bunch of diverse Kiwi organisations are proving they’ve got the credentials to stay the business excellence course.
