In the lead-up to the 40th edition of the Rich List in June, NBR is opening the archives to reproduce some of the best content from the past four decades.
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.
Ecostore CEO Pablo Kraus hopes to at least double Chinese sales within the next five years.
After exiting the Datagrid project, Dick’s telecommunications investments nowadays rest with a half-share in Hero Internet.
He set up a new company in the business of hotel development, perhaps to revive a plan to build an ultra-luxury lodge on the Waiheke Island property he bought from US billionaire Julian Robertson.
