November 24, 2011

Mainfreight claimed two of the big prizes at this year’s Deloitte/Management magazine Top200 Awards.

Mainfreight has maintained its business, cultural and organisational integrity while growing into a billion-dollar global company.

Mainfreight group managing director Don Braid is back. He was the Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Executive of the Year in 2008.

Executive Update Edition 34

This year’s Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards judges have wrestled with the figures, debated the pros and cons, and picked the winners during a couple of rigorous sessions at Deloitte’s downtown Auckland offices.

Too many of our manufacturers fall over unnecessarily, according to this year’s NZIM/Eagle Technology Young Executive of the Year, Hamish McBeath.

Never being afraid to make hard calls around governance leadership has won Wayne Boyd this year’s QBE Insurance Chairperson of the Year Award.

Welcome to this special issue of Executive Update: a comprehensive summary of the top stories behind this year’s Deloitte/Management magazine Top200 Awards.

This year’s Deloitte/Management magazine Top200 list of companies contains seeds of optimism about the future direction of New Zealand’s largest enterprises.