Bishop’s Euroclass Design and Build business was, at the end of 2024, granted residential zoning for the Highbrook Precinct, after overcoming objections from the Auckland Council.
This year, the McPhail family celebrates the 50th anniversary of its successful LeaderBrand vegetable-growing empire with a new generation firmly in control.
The commissioning of the family’s new Greenlea Waitoa Natural Proteins plant in 2025 will be welcomed after a two-year development on a four-hectare greenfields site in the Waikato.
Towards the end of 2024, the Cushing family finally succeeded in privatising the Rural Equities farming conglomerate.
Sir Peter Vela will have mixed feelings about his 2025 summer Down Under after a disappointing conclusion to the annual thoroughbred yearling sales.
Cooney and Lagerberg’s Classic Group’s workforce has shrunk from 330 to 240 over the past few years due to multiple external factors.
One of the biggest projects for the family in 2025 will be the addition of a 4000 sqm Woolworths store at its $70m Nelson Junction complex, which officially opened in late 2024.
Golf featured in the past year for Shi, with Kauri Aviation Ltd (co-owned by Graeme Murphy), recently buying a brand new $7m Airbus helicopter, presumably to ferry them to courses around the motu.
The Waikato-based family behind animal management and security company Gallagher Group found reason to celebrate last year with, both Sir William and his brother Sir John receiving accolades.
A Smith Crane & Construction crane is helping to erect three new wind turbines to power New Zealand’s Scott Base, Antarctica.
