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The fortnightly newsletter for thought leaders 30th November 2012

Top 200 Awards special issue

Welcome to this special issue of Executive Update: comprehensive summary of the top stories behind this year’s Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards.

For the past 23 years, these awards have been identifying our country’s best-led companies, and the very best of New Zealand’s managers and leaders. Read more »


Awards reflect future direction for NZ enterprise

The past, present and future strength of New Zealand business enterprise all featured strongly in the winners’ line-up at this year’s 2012 Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards.

Ryman Healthcare Group was named Company of the Year; Port of Tauranga CEO Mark Cairns took the Executive of the Year title; Sir Henry van der Heyden – Fonterra’s chairman since 2002 – was named Chairperson of the Year; and kaiwhakahaere (chairman) Mark Solomon of the iwi authority Ngai Tahu was awarded the Visionary Leader title. Read more »



Company of the Year: Ryman Healthcare

Ryman Healthcare notched up record profits this year on top of decade of record profits. This – and stack of other reasons – lies behind the decision for this year’s Top 200 judges to crown Ryman as the Deloitte/Management magazine 2012 Company of Year.

“Everything this company does has merit and it performs outstandingly well in very competitive industry sector,” say the judges. “It is model New Zealand enterprise.” Read more »


Executive of the Year: Mark Cairns

Mark Cairns’ proven and talented leadership of Port of Tauranga has won him this year’s Deloitte/Management magazine Executive of the Year Award.

This year’s awards judges say Cairns, chief executive of Port of Tauranga for the past seven years, heads business that is “role model for all New Zealand’s infrastructure enterprises”.  Read more »


Young Executive of the Year: Glenys Powell

A focus on facilitating and delivering positive change is one of the many attributes that single out Glenys Powell as this year’s NZIM/Eagle Technology Young Executive of the Year.

Powell is general manager – sales and marketing of the Wellington-based Medical Assurance Society (MAS).  Read more »


Paying with your face

Imagine walking into a store, picking up your items and paying just by looking at a screen. This is already a reality in China thanks to facial recognition payment technology.

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