Big red's a winner

Friday 1st December 2000

The Warehouse was named company of the year at the Deloitte/Management top 200 awards last night.

Financial performance was only one of the criteria which also included environmental management, people management and the relevance of the company's products and services. The other finalists for the award were Sky City and Fisher & Paykel.

Sky City's chief executive Evan Davies won the executive of the year honour, pipping The Warehouse founder Stephen Tindall and Mainfreight's Bruce Plested.

Judges said Mr Davies had turned himself from a project management specialist to an allround top performing executive and team leader.

Supermarket group Foodstuffs (South Island) was the recipient of a new award, the e-Merging Business Award, for its innovative Electronic Data Interchange strategy which allows information to be transferred throughout the group. Judges were impressed by the fact Foodstuffs consulted widely with all its member supermarkets to design and implement the programme.

The e-Merging Business Award's criteria included whether the e-business strategy had a positive impact on relationships and enhanced employees' job satisfaction.

Baycorp Holdings received the award for best corporate strategy and NZ Post won the Business Ethics award. Lion Nathan's Douglas Myers was awarded the chairman of the year award. Judges said Mr Myers was a visionary who took his business to international enterprise status.

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