Listed below are our New Zealand press releases, providing an overview of our activities and opinions over the last 12 months. Our most recent press releases can be found at the top of the page.
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This morning the Prime Minister is reported as painting the election as a choice between radical change or inclusive leadership. She warned against National's "new Right agenda" and said the election represented "high noon" for New Zealand.
Then came the personal attack - "My opponent represents the last throw of the dice for the people who brought us Rogernomics and Ruthanasia. "Like rust the forces of neoliberalism have never slept since power was taken from them in 1999."
At 1230 however a moderate wide ranging and one expects widely appealing tax policy was announced by the evil forces...
Big Four professional services firm Deloitte announced today that Murray Jack, Wellington consulting partner and Asia Pacific Consulting leader for Deloitte, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte New Zealand by the Firm’s Board of Partners.
On August 6 Murray Jack took over the reins from former CEO Nick Main who has become Chairman following the retirement of John Hagen from the role after 26 years with Deloitte.
Commenting on his appointment Murray Jack says “he looks...
Registration is now open for the annual Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 awards as public and private owned businesses, large and small, are being invited to step up and gauge their revenue growth against their peers.
This year marks the fifth year the Fast 50 has been run in New Zealand with entries open from 1 June through to August each year. The top 50 fastest growing companies are then announced on the 20 October.
According to Brett Chambers, the Deloitte partner heading the research process, the index is well respected within the business community and provides Deloitte with vital information about what...
Deloitte this week announced the appointment of new partner Chas Cable to the Auckland corporate finance practice. Mr Cable joins the Corporate Finance team following a career that encompasses working with investment banks in New Zealand, Australia and the USA, as well as in his own consultancy.
Deloitte chief executive Nick Main welcomed the appointment as a significant step for the firm. "Chas's experience includes time with Merrill Lynch, Ord Minnett, and Macquarie as well as the provision of strategic corporate finance advice and litigation support on his own behalf. Chas is well-known in the business community for his...
New Zealand businesses make up 21 of the 500 fastest growing businesses in the Asia-Pacific for this year, according to Deloitte.
The third annual Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific index of high growth companies has just been announced in Hong Kong, recognizing fast growers from Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New...
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu this week announced globally its 2004 annual composite revenue results of its member firms, which show an 8.6 percent increase. After excluding divested practices, revenue growth for the continuing businesses was 11.1 percent.
Composite revenue reported was US$16.4 billion compared with US$15.1 billion in FY03. For the first time ever, member firms from Europe/Middle East/Africa and Asia-Pacific/Japan contributed half of this, and member firm tax practices led the way with 60 percent growth in the last two years.
“2004 was the 11th consecutive year of aggregate revenue growth for...
In a rare double, Air New Zealand CEO and managing director, Ralph Norris has been named the country’s top performing executive, again taking the title he was first awarded in 1997 when he was CEO of ASB Bank.
Award judges said Norris’s achievement as the Deloitte/Management magazine Executive of the Year is testimony to his outstanding abilities as a leader and as a highly effective organisational manager. They said at Air New Zealand he has again shown outstanding leadership as well as the capacity to come to grips with and successfully manage a highly complex, competitive and, particularly...
On Thursday 21 October, Trade Me Ltd, the highly profiled and forward thinking online auction, dating and trading business, took centre stage at the Deloitte /Unlimited Fast 50 awards index - winning the top award as the fastest growing company for 2004.
Last year Trade Me took position number 2, and has now moved into the high growth spotlight, with a very respectable 1078% revenue growth over the last 3 years.
Only one company has stayed amongst the Top 50 since the index commenced in 2001. Christchurch based
Deloitte took the top award for large organisations in the EEO Trust Work & Life Awards 2004 presented last night by Prime Minister Helen Clark.
The awards recognise organisations committed to helping their people integrate their interests inside and outside the workplace. Chief Executive of the EEO Trust Dr Philippa Reed acknowledged Deloitte’s genuine commitment to move beyond providing work-life initiatives to creating a culture that values its people and enables them to reach their potential.
“Their entry showed the firm’s ability to respond to the views of its people and take the decision to...
New Zealand’s fastest growing businesses have until close of business this Friday (6 August) to enter the 2004 Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 - an index, giving researchers and business leaders vital information about what it takes to grow.
This is the fourth year of the index, a well recognised initiative that helps high performing enterprises benchmark themselves against their peers as well as identifies key challenges and dominating issues many face annually to get ahead.
The Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 can also provide a perspective on the current economic climate as only two companies have stayed amongst...
