Exciting Companies Articles

BG Contracting - Construction Sector This Rangiora-based civil engineering and construction firm was commended for its investment in new product design and testing. The company has moved away from its traditional drainage work into rural and residential subdivisions, where it is riding a boom wave, project manager Simon Hall says. BG Contracting developed the only packaged sewer treatment...

HIGH RETURNS with LESS RISK Roger Parker and Adele Gautier A range of companies in the mature finance field are turning in gravity-defying performances in the search for New Zealand's Most Exciting Companies, researched by New River. High revenue growth as a product of risk reduction is the opposite of the usual finance logic. One group has prised open a valuable new lending segment with...

Brook Asset Management - Finance Sector Fund management firms are often criticised for being passive shareholders. Brook Asset Management rated as exciting for its role in reversing this trend. It is acting as protagonist for corporate governance and is campaigning for greater accountability...

Lion Tamer Protected Investments - Finance Sector The bolter in this month's pack is Lion Tamer Protected Investments, the only specialist capital-protected investment product provider in New Zealand (though some trading banks offer products in this area). These allow investors to reap equity...

Mike Pero Mortgages - Finance Sector Excellence in branding earned Mike Pero Mortgages a citation as exciting from its peers. It invests heavily in marketing - 30% of turnover in the early days, and about 15% now. Founder and managing director Mike Pero is not afraid to commit large sums of...

ASB Bank - Finance Sector ASB Bank is the only major trading bank named by respondents as exciting. Seen as the complete package by finance executives, ASB has not only led the way in online banking, then share-trading, but also in delivery of customer service, branding and growth. Managing...

MACHINE AGE Roger Parker and Adele Gautier Exciting companies in the diverse machinery and equipment manufacturing sector are making everything from weigh scales to robotics and expanding into markets from the US to Ethiopia. Although diverse, this month's Search for New Zealand's Most...

Screening & Crushing Systems - Machinery and Manufacturing Sector This Christchurch-based company has created state-of-the-art recycling machinery, rated by industry insiders as a "really exciting development." It was originally Powerscreen New Zealand, a distributor of...

Tandarra Engineering - Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Sector Peers say this company "needs no advertising - they have more work they can cope with through word of mouth. They're also a major export success." It manufactures roll-forming equipment used in the manufacture of...

Atrax Group - Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Sector Best known for its baggage and cargo scales, it also makes scales for the dairy and meat industries as well as weighbridges. Managing director Kevin Maurice says the company's strength lies in its luggage systems being...

Cable Ways - Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Sector Excitement for this company, say peers, comes from its "incredible" design and being "by far the most innovative"...

KILLER COMPANIES This month's search for New Zealand's Most Exciting Companies, researched by New River, casts light on an often secretive industry. Our small defence sector is characterised by...

Ordnance Development - Defence Sector "Export growth in the last three to five years" and "clever products" are why executives rated Ordnance Development exciting. The...

Flexisolutions - Defence Sector The odd man out among this month's exciting companies is Flexisolutions - it's a smaller company, the brash youngster, on the scene only four years. But defence...