By Nicholas Bryant
Thursday 20th April 2000 |
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Strategic, an offshoot of property and finance company Strategic Investment Group, has signed a conditional agreement to buy 50% of a South Island-based technology and media company with plans to set up a national wireless internet network.
Strategic's chief executive, Paul Bublitz, would not identify the company.
It was unclear whether the new venture will be a direct competitor to Walker Datavision's Walker Wireless or Wilson Neill's Radionet. But Mr Bublitz said it would have a national focus.
Strategic Capital, set up late last year as a subsidiary of Strategic Investment Group, had identified wireless as a growth business with room for more players. The deal is the first of five on Strategic Capital's drawing board, with the four others - one of them a foreign company - involved in technology.
It is one of a growing group of venture capital outfits looking to cash in on technology but that does not bother Mr Bublitz as Strategic Investment Group has spread its risk over a number of ventures.
The group began in 1992 as Trident Property but changed its name last year to reflect a shift in business focus from property to wider investment.
Its major shareholders are Mr Bublitz, former All Black and executive director Jock Hobbs and Canadian-born property investor John Prendergast.
A quiet mover in the commercial property industry the company had assets of more than $100 million by 1997.
It has a syndication arm, Strategic Property; a development funding arm, Strategic Finance; and Strategic Development Trust.
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