An analysis of the Deloitte/Management magazine 2010 listing of New Zealand’s Top 200 businesses shows that revenue performance was flat but pre-tax profits recovered a significant amount of the ground that was lost in 2009.
Engineering consultancy Beca Group – one of New Zealand business’ global success stories – was named Company of the Year in the 2010 Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards. In other major awards, Mark Waller, managing director of Ebos Group, won the Executive of the Year title, Alison Paterson became the first woman to receive the Chairperson of the Year award, and New Zealand business legend Douglas Goodfellow, now in his 90s, was recognised as Visionary Leader.
Engineering consultancy global success story Beca Group is an oustanding example of the new model of intellectual and personal competency exporter that New Zealand needs “to deliver the country’s economic future” the Top 200 award judges said.
While Mark Waller has been around a long time, he is very much the face of the future of New Zealand business. As managing director of Ebos Group, he heads one of a growing number of “smart” companies which have developed a highly successful business model in New Zealand and then expanded internationally.
Restructuring an organisation is one of the hardest tasks a chief executive can face – yet Claire Szabo has done it twice since she was appointed CEO of English Language Partners (formerly ESOL Home Tutors) at the age of 27.
Being the first woman to receive QBE’s Chairperson of Year award is another significant achievement in a long and impressive list of accomplishments for Alison Paterson.
“I’m a believer that regardless of the circumstances, whether there be a recession or a boom, it makes absolutely no difference to the management style you need to adopt,” Mark Waller, Deloitte/Management magazine’s 2010 Executive of the Year.
This week’s Executive Update focuses on the annual Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards which were announced last night before a business who’s who of 750 guests at SkyCity Convention Centre in Auckland. We look at why our winners have done so well in what has been another challenging year for business.
Restructuring an organisation is one of the hardest tasks chief executive can face – yet Claire Szabó has done it twice, putting her organisation in great shape over tough period
