The Giesen Group shifted the way it operates in the past year, partnering with local alcohol distributor instead of continuing to self-distribute its alcohol and alcohol-free brands.
In 2024 there was a release of 48 juvenile tuatara into a newly built one-hectare mouse-proof enclosure at Cape Sanctuary, Andy and Liz Lowe’s privately owned mainland conservation project.
Last December, two of Guthrie’s Mainland free-range farms in north Otago were hit by an outbreak of bird flu, meaning all of its laying hens had to be culled.
In many ways, Shuttlerock is reflective of the paradigm shift that’s taken place in media.
Barnes’ Perpetual Guardian is growing in stature following its acquisition in 2024 of the private wealth divisions of Trustees Executors and Castle Point Funds Management.
After Nilo’s successful $13m Series A fund raise in December 2024, Williams said the company hoped to build a 5000-tonne-a-year plant in New Zealand.
The family’s largest asset sale so far involved a 2024 deal with Scales Corporation in an agreement that bought Bostock’s 50% share of the Profruit juice processing business.
Recent investments for Wells include a 15ha vineyard valued at $3m near Cromwell, and three adjacent sections costing $5.5m in the recently opened Mt Cardrona Station village.
The family’s $50m, 11.6ha property was reportedly sold in 2024 for $97m to a newly registered company called Porchester Industrial Properties.
Sir Christopher Mace continued his retreat from the corporate world in 2024 when he stepped down as a director of Te Pūia Tāpapa, a $115m investment fund supported by 26 iwi and Māori entities.
