Deloitte Top 200 Awards 2024 winners
Meet last year's Deloitte Top 200 Awards finalists and winners
Explore the 2024 finalists and winners
Each year, the Deloitte Top 200 Awards celebrates outstanding performance and leadership across New Zealand's business landscape. Finalists are selected across ten award categories, recognising excellence in areas such as governance, growth, executive leadership and sustainability.
Explore the stories behind last year's Deloitte Top 200 Awards finalists and winners.
2025 finalists will be announced on 31 October 2025.
2024 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Company of the Year
The Company of the Year award recognises the best organisational performance from the previous year. Judging criteria includes the latest financial measures, as well as non-financial and other qualitative measures of organisational performance, such as corporate reputation, approach to environmental management and others.
2024 ServiceNow Chief Executive of the Year
The Chief Executive of the Year award recognises the best executive performance from the previous year. Judging criteria includes the performance of the winner’s organisation and the extent to which they have contributed to that performance and the current strategy. Also important is the regard in which the winner is held by peers.
2024 Tax Traders Chief Financial Officer of the Year
The Chief Financial Officer of the Year award recognises a CFO whose performance from the previous year has been outstanding. The award aims to highlight and honour a CFO whose influence and stewardship of their organisation’s financials and stakeholders has resulted in value and success for their company’s shareholders.
2024 Forsyth Barr Chairperson of the Year
Chairperson of the Year is awarded to the top board performer from the previous year. The judging criteria include the performance of the organisation(s) and the extent to which the winner has contributed to the performance of the board(s) they chair. Judges will also consider the regard in which the winner is held by peers.
2024 Snowflake Sustainability Leadership
The Sustainability Leadership award highlights businesses working towards creation of long-term environmental, social and economic value. The judging criteria considers governance, long-term perspective, integration of ESG considerations and projects to support sustainable development.
2024 2degrees Best Growth Strategy
The Best Growth Strategy award recognises an organisation’s outstanding growth performance. Criteria include the revenue and profit growth of the past year. Other factors may include if the growth appears to be sustainable, if it is based on international business expansion, and the short and long-term advantages of growth for the organisation.
2024 BusinessNZ Most Improved Performance
The Most Improved Performance award recognises an outstanding change in business performance. The judges look at the relative improvement in all performance indicators over the previous year, the source of the improvement, and other ways the organisation has changed in the past year and the impact of these changes.
2024 University of Auckland Business School Young Executive of the Year
The Young Executive of the Year award recognises standout individuals prepared to go beyond perceived limitations and strive for personal and organisational excellence. The award provides an opportunity to celebrate young executives’ roles in influencing, growing and providing strategy and direction.
2024 Barfoot & Thompson Diversity and Inclusion Leadership
The Diversity and Inclusion Leadership award was introduced in 2014. It honours an organisation that has identified and addressed specific diversity and inclusion challenges or opportunities with an innovative solution. The success of this initiative is evident in business outcomes.
2024 Hobson Leavy Visionary Leader
The recipient of this award is not necessarily associated with a Deloitte Top 200 company or, in fact, any company at all. They are someone in the business world or whose work is of importance to the business community. The winner of the award takes a visionary position and leads by example.
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