Deloitte Top 200 Awards 2025 winners and finalists
Meet the 2025 winners and finalists
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.
The 2025 Deloitte Top 200 Award winners were announced on 4 December 2025 at a black-tie gala event at Auckland’s Viaduct Events Centre, where we honoured the achievements of New Zealand’s leading businesses and executives.
Explore this year’s award finalists and winners below.
2025 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.
2025 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.
2025 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.
2025 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.
2025 Credibl 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.
2025 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.
2025 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.
2025 Snowflake 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.
2025 Diversity and Inclusion Leadership
The Diversity & Inclusion Leadership award honours an organisation that has identified and addressed specific diversity and inclusion challenges or opportunities with innovative solutions. The success of this initiative is evident in business outcomes.
2025 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.
2025 Judges’ Recognition
In recognition of long and distinguished service to the New Zealand business community as head judge and convenor of the Deloitte Top 200 judging panel.
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