The country’s $100b wealth creators talk international investment, education, regulation, and taxes for NBR’s annual Rich List.
Introducing a dozen new entrants worth a combined $4.3 billion.
Profiling 14 of the country’s leading and most successful businesswomen.
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Naomi Ballantyne says she always knew who she wanted to be, that is, driven by doing work that did good things for people.
Jamie Beaton regards himself as one of the mission-driven entrepreneurs, who work in spaces they are extremely passionate about.
‘Isn’t it fantastic we’ve got people with ambition and aspiration and positivity,’ Christopher Luxon says.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon earlier today said it was good to celebrate business success.
Not only soliciting the Listers themselves, NBR also asked politicians and economists about what Rich Listers should to do to help.
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After the partial sale of Tournament assets, Brown and Rowntree established Newgate Capital to offer the property market a flexible non-bank financing option.
‘Success is not a straight line, there’s going to be challenges. We say to ourselves, quite often, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it,’ she says.
Anthony Morsinkhof says country is missing out on billions of investment due to foreign buyer ban.
Fong has several business and governance interests, including being chair of the Simplicity Foundation, founder of Re:ampd, and a strategic adviser at Advisory.Works as well as having a natural skincare business called Arné.
The Carr family have farmed and built the group of companies for nearly 45 years, and now has an extensive farm and industrial property portfolio.
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Chris Dickey founded Southbourne Holdings in 1986 at the age of 23 and set about accumulating what has become a formidable portfolio of commercial and industrial properties throughout Auckland.
After opening her first fashion boutique 40 years ago, it is still one of New Zealand’s most respected and well-known fashion brands.
Lucy Liu says her father has been her main inspiration in business, and that she learned about perseverance and integrity from him.
Carmel Fisher’s Honours List citation as Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit described her as a ‘trailblazer [who] championed women’s financial independence and financial literacy’.
ANALYSIS: The annual NBR Rich List has been the country's only source on wealth for nearly 40 years.
