Deloitte chairman John Hagen has been appointed to the board of Trustees Executors, formerly Tower Trust. He holds or has held a number of directorships and advisory positions in the private and public sectors including: Datacom, Hughes & Cossar, Auckland Chamber of Commerce, NZ Debt Management Office, Gough Gough & Hamer, Ramset (NZ) and Auckland City Mission. He is a past president of ICANZ and was chair of the Accounting Standards Review Board

New Zealand's fastest growing company was named at this evening's Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 awards. Electronics company Prolificx Limited grew an astonishing 2281% over the last 3 years, creating 15 jobs in the process. 

To make the Fast 50, companies submitted their revenue for the last three years. The Fast 50 index was then compiled with companies ranked according to their percentage revenue growth.

"Prolificx's success is even more remarkable when you consider that its sister company Endace Measurement Systems ranked number 16 on the Fast 50," said Brett Chambers,...

Deloitte and Deloitte Consulting formally reintegrate in New Zealand from 1 September 2003. The announcement follows a decision earlier in the year by the Deloitte global firm to retain its consulting arm. Reintegration leaves Deloitte as the only Big 4 professional services firm in New Zealand with fully integrated services across audit, accounting, tax advice, strategy and technology consulting.
 
This is a break away from the strategy of the other Big 4 professional service firms, which have each hived off their consulting services into a separate firm following accounting scandals in the US.
 

Deloitte the global professional services organization, announced its tenth consecutive year of annual growth, with combined worldwide revenues from its member firms totaling US$15.1 billion, a 20.8 percent increase over FY2002 revenues of US$12.5 billion.

Additionally, the global organization announced the launch of the new brand name "Deloitte" to highlight the value of its multidisciplinary organization. This month's change means that the firms known in various national and global markets as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Deloitte & Touche, and Deloitte Consulting, while retaining their...

Owners of small and medium sized businesses are making more confident decisions and experiencing dramatic business growth, according to a survey carried out by business accelerator, The ICEHOUSE.

The ICEHOUSE surveyed 65% of the participants from its three-year old Owner Managers Programme (OMP) and found that the average growth in turnover for participants was more than double that against a benchmark of all NZ companies (24% compared to 11%).

The top 25% of OMP participants ratcheted this further, to a startling 34% growth in turnover and a 40% growth in net...

The secrets of some of New Zealand’s most successful exporters will be shared with entrepreneurial high growth exporters through a new programme launched this week by business accelerator, The ICEHOUSE.

Icehouse’s ‘321GoGlobal’ programme has the backing of veteran exporters like Navman’s Peter Maire and Bill Day of Seaworks, who will be amongst the high profile business leaders presenting at the workshops in November in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.

Maire says while the ‘awesome Kiwi attitude’ can take exporters a long...

Specialist HR consultancies Cubiks and Deloitte Human Capital have joined forces to produce a definitive remuneration survey for Public Sector organisations across New Zealand.

In recent years, both Deloitte and Cubiks have produced separate Public Sector salary surveys. However, the firms have now decided to create a single comprehensive source of information on remuneration trends within the sector.

Graham Hart, a Director of Deloitte Human Capital Advisory Services, comments: "We have agreed that a single consolidated survey would be a more useful source of information...

New Asia Pacific CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Manoj Singh says Asia is the bright spot in a melancholy global market and is in a prime position to capitalise on global uncertainty.  It should take real advantage of what it has to offer the world and its capital markets.

“Asia is the fastest growing of all global markets currently estimated at 4.6 percent compared to 2.2 percent for the USA and 1.1 for Europe . It is lucky to have three of the fastest growing markets in China, South Korea and India. Some markets are experiencing considerable privatisation and the banking sector is recovering -...

The Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 has just been launched for 2003, searching out New Zealand’s fastest growing businesses and the secrets to their success. This is the third year of the index, giving researchers a goldmine of information about what it takes to grow in the current economic climate.

Brett Chambers, the Deloitte partner heading the research process, says one of the strongest messages coming through from last year’s Fast 50: stay energised. “Marshall Software, last year’s winner, sustained 870% measured growth in the period surveyed. That implies a huge demand on...

Deloitte Survey Shows Regional Differences in IT Security and Privacy Attitudes, Policies and Technologies at Leading Global Financial Services Firms

A Deloitte survey shows regional differences in IT security and privacy attitudes, policies and technologies at leading global financial services firms.

6th June 2003: Wellington – In a comprehensive look at the state of IT security among the top 500 global financial institutions, chief security officers (CSO) and chief information security officers (CISO) said the number of attacks from external sources is...