Beca Group took out the company of the year award at this year's Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards last night, becoming the first privately owned company to win the accolade.In another first, Alison Paterson became the first woman to win chairpe
Beca Group took out the company of the year award at this year's Deloitte/Management magazine Top 200 Awards last night, becoming the first privately owned company to win the accolade.
In another first, Alison Paterson became the first woman to win chairperson of the year.
More than 700 people attended the awards which recognised Douglas Goodfellow, now in his 90s, as a visionary leader.
Mark Waller, managing director of Ebos Group, won the executive of the year title.
Engineering consultancy Beca beat publicly listed Ebos and Ryman Healthcare in the company of the year category.
The judges said Beca was a world leader in its field and an outstanding example of the kind of enterprise that New Zealand needed to deliver the country's economic future.
Deloitte chief executive Murray Jack said the companies represented at the awards had weathered unprecedented uncertainty in the world economy and were now poised to lead New Zealand's return to growth.
Publisher of NZ Management magazine Toni Myers said Beca was one of New Zealand's most impressive commercial success stories.
Beca has reported record profits seven years in a row, despite the back drop of global economic uncertainty since 2007. Close to 40 percent of revenue is generated offshore and it has offices in nine countries.
"Beca represents the new generation of intellectual and personal competency exporter that New Zealand needs to diversify the country's export base from its current over-reliance on commodities-based income," she said.
