This week’s Executive Update focuses on the annual Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards which were announced last night before 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. Read more »
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. Read more »
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 significant amount of the ground that was lost in 2009. Read more »
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. Read more »
While Mark Waller has been around 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 growing number of “smart” companies which have developed highly successful business model in New Zealand and then expanded internationally. Read more »
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