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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 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 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.

Deloitte Top 200 Awards

Celebrating those who move Aotearoa forward

The Deloitte Top 200 Awards are held annually to recognise and celebrate outstanding individual and management team performances among New Zealand’s largest companies and trading organisations.