NZ Management magazine’s listing of New Zealand’s largest organisations includes publicly listed companies and larger unlisted companies required to disclose audited financial statements, including New Zealand subsidiaries and branches of overseas companies. It also includes producer boards, cooperatives, local authority trading enterprises and state-owned enterprises.
To be included in the Top 200, organisations must operate for commercially determined profit and be liable for tax on earnings. Companies fully owned by another New Zealand company are excluded.
All figures are the latest available, verified and audited.
• Revenue: as disclosed in the entity’s Statement of Income or equivalent. Includes sales (excluding gross commission sales), rent, dividends, share of income from associated companies and interest received.
• Profit After Tax: includes equity accounted profit and profit attributable to non controlling (minority) interests.
• EBITDA: earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation and impairments of property, plant and equipment or intangible assets.
• EBIT: earnings before interest and tax, includes unusual income and expense items. Not shown for the financial institutions.
• Return On Revenue: calculated by profit before interest and tax divided by revenue. Where no profit figures are shown, this calculation is not applicable as indicated by N/A.
• Total Assets: as disclosed in the entity’s financial statements. Includes current and non-current assets, investments, tangible and intangible assets, deferred tax assets and goodwill.
• Total Equity: as disclosed in the entity’s financial statements including non controlling (minority) interests. For New Zealand branches of overseas companies, the amount shown as owing to head office is taken as deemed equity.
• Return on Total Equity/Total Assets: calculated by profit after-tax divided by average total equity/total assets over the past two years. Where an entity is in its first year of operation the current year total equity/total assets figure has been used as an approximate.
• Proprietorship Ratio: Total Equity (see above) divided by average total assets over the past two years expressed as percentage.
• Total Employees: New Zealand staff who work more than 30 hours week. Includes staff of wholly owned subsidiaries.
General
• Companies that have operated less than six months are not included in this listing.
• Majority shareholdings greater than 50 percent by other New Zealand entities are indicated in brackets. key to these abbreviations follows the listing.
• * indicates companies that are more than 50 percent overseas-controlled.
• Not disclosed (N/D) is used where figures were not disclosed by the company or disclosed but not able to be verified.
• An (-) indicates the company was not ranked last year.
Financial institutions
Includes banks, finance companies, insurance companies (life/ fire and general/superannuation). These organisations are ranked on total assets and appear separately.
The financial institution results are based on the entity’s legal set of accounts and not those accounts which include funds under administration (ie, accounts which include assets that are not legally owned by that institution, but administered by it).
• Revenue: as disclosed in the entity’s Statement of Income or equivalent but not reinsurance revenue (insurance companies).
• Profit After Tax: is shown for information purposes only and no ranking is given.
• Total Equity: as disclosed in the entity’s financial statements including non controlling (minority) interests. For New Zealand branches of overseas companies, the amount shown as owing to head office is taken as deemed equity.
• Pre-tax Return on Revenue: calculated by profit before tax (and after interest) divided by revenue. Where no profit figures are shown, this calculation is not applicable as indicated by N/A.
• Proprietorship Ratio: Total Equity (see above) divided by average total assets over the past two years expressed as percentage. M
TAXATION CHANGES
The results reported in the tables will have been affected by the drop in the company tax rate effective for the 2012 tax year and the disallowance of tax depreciation on buildings which became effective at the same time.
The tables include results for trading years June 2011 forward to June 2012 and comparisons with the prior year figures may be affected as result.
