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The New Zealand Business Hall of Fame is a figurative hall of fame dedicated to New Zealanders who have made a significant contribution to the economic and social development of New Zealand. The hall was established in 1994 by the Young Enterprise Trust.[1] Laureates are selected by an independent panel and are inducted at an annual gala dinner.[1][2]
| New Zealand Business Hall of Fame | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Individuals who have made a significant contribution to the economic and social development of New Zealand |
| Country | New Zealand |
| First awarded | 1994 |
| Last awarded | 2024 |
| Website | businesshalloffame |
The following is a complete list of laureates of the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame, up to inductions on 11 September 2024.[3][4]
| Year | Laureate | Field(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Woolf Fisher | Whiteware manufacturing |
| James Fletcher | Construction | |
| William Goodfellow | Dairy industry | |
| Jack Newman | Transport | |
| Bryan Todd | Oil exploration | |
| James Wattie | Food processing | |
| 1995 | Ted Friedlander | Clothes retailing |
| Robert Kerridge | Cinemas | |
| Ken Myers | Liquor industry | |
| Cliff Plimmer | Stock and station agency | |
| William Stevenson | Civil engineering and infrastructure | |
| Robertson Stewart | Plastics | |
| 1996 | Jack Butland | Food processing |
| Chew Chong | Fungus exporting and buttermaking | |
| Richard Izard | Saw-blade manufacturing | |
| John McKenzie | Retailing | |
| Bob Owens | Transport | |
| Angus Tait | Telecommunications | |
| 1997 | John Anderson | Engineering |
| John Logan Campbell | Commerce | |
| Tom Clark | Ceramics | |
| Assid Abraham Corban | Wine | |
| James Fletcher Jr. | Industry | |
| Robert Hannah | Footwear | |
| James Maddren | Deer industry and commerce | |
| Alfred Hamish Reed | Book publishing | |
| Frank Renouf | Merchant banking | |
| Thomas Russell | Investment and law | |
| 1998 | Harcourt Caughey | Department store retailing and public service |
| Te Puea Hērangi | Māori development | |
| Ray Hurley | Lingerie manufacturing | |
| Henry Kelliher | Brewing | |
| Graeme Marsh | Manufacturing and business leadership | |
| Maurice Paykel | Whiteware manufacturing | |
| 1999 | Robert Graham | Tourism |
| Johnny Jones | Whaling, farming and shipping | |
| Nathaniel Levin | Trading, and stock and station agency | |
| Don McLaren | Animal remedies and racing | |
| Āpirana Ngata | Māori development | |
| Laurie Stevens | Textiles and manufacturing | |
| Ron Trotter | Business leadership | |
| Rodolph Wigley | Tourism | |
| 2000 | Francis Carter | Sawmilling and timber merchandising |
| Edward Elworthy | Farming and meat processing | |
| Alexander Harvey | Manufacturing | |
| James Hay | Department store retailing | |
| Amy Maria Hellaby | Meat processing and retailing | |
| Robert Holt | Sawmilling and timber merchandising | |
| Robert Laidlaw | Department store retailing | |
| Cliff Skeggs | Fishing and transport | |
| 2001 | Heaton Barker | Grocery |
| Harry Horrocks | Pulp and paper industry | |
| John Horrocks | Transport and commercial law | |
| Brian Picot | Supermarketing and education reform | |
| Geoffrey Roberts | Commercial aviation | |
| Peter Shirtcliffe | Business management and enterprise education | |
| 2002 | Tom Ah Chee | Supermarketing |
| Romeo Bragato | Viticulture | |
| Don Brash | Central banking | |
| Richard Carter | Forestry | |
| Peter Masfen | Investment | |
| Tim Wallis | Aviation and deer industry | |
| 2003 | Peter Barr | Accountancy |
| Robert Forsyth Barr | Sharebroking | |
| John Goulter | Airport administration | |
| Frank Holmes | Oil entrepreneurship | |
| Douglas Myers | Brewing | |
| Wilson Whineray | Rugby and business leadership | |
| 2004 | Eion Edgar | Sharebroking |
| Peter Elworthy | Farming and business leadership | |
| Bill Gallagher | Electric fences and business leadership | |
| Bill Hamilton | Jet boats | |
| Howard Paterson | Entrepreneurship and biotechnology | |
| Wendy Pye | Children's publishing and literacy | |
| 2005 | James Doig | Industry |
| Pat Goodman | Baking and entrepreneurship | |
| Bill Richardson | Transport | |
| Gil Simpson | Software | |
| Stephen Tindall | Discount retailing | |
| Harvey Turner | Horticulture and auctioneering | |
| 2006 | William Davidson | Agribusiness |
| Keith Hay | House building and public service | |
| Michael Hill | Jewellery retailing | |
| Richard Hudson | Baking and confectionery | |
| Neville Jordan | Technology entrepreneurship | |
| David Levene | Retailing | |
| 2007 | William Gregg | Coffee |
| Neil Isaac | Construction engineering and conservation | |
| Johannes La Grouw | Housebuilding | |
| Len Malaghan | Ice-cream manufacturing and medical research | |
| Neal Plowman | Textile and laundry services | |
| Trevor Scott | Business leadership and biotechnology | |
| 2008 | Alan Burnet | Newspaper publishing |
| Shariffe Coory | Business and community leadership | |
| Tony Falkenstein | Entrepreneurship and business education | |
| George Fenwick | Newspaper publishing and social reform | |
| Ron Jarden | Rugby and sharebroking | |
| Joseph Nathan | Dairy entrepreneurship | |
| Hugh Perrett | Grocery strategy and retail innovation | |
| Rod Weir | Stock and station leadership | |
| 2009 | George Beca | Engineering consultancy |
| Ron Carter | Engineering consultancy and business leadership | |
| Roderick Deane | Corporate leadership | |
| Ted Lees | Heavy equipment | |
| John Plimmer | Construction and investment | |
| Marianne Smith | Drapery and philanthropy | |
| 2010 | Ernest Davis | Brewing, public service and philanthropy |
| Douglas Goodfellow | Resource investment and philanthropy | |
| Bendix Hallenstein | Clothes manufacturing, public service and philanthropy | |
| John Ilott | Advertising and philanthropy | |
| Peter Leitch | Meat retailing and philanthropy | |
| Roy Savage | Safety equipment and philanthropy | |
| 2011 | Thomas Cawthron | Shipping agencies, investment contracting and philanthropy |
| Les Hutchins | Tourism and conservation | |
| Ann and David Norman | Jewellery retailing, department store retailing and philanthropy | |
| Brian Perry | Civil engineering and philanthropy | |
| Percy Sargood | Merchant and philanthropy | |
| John Todd | Energy, investment and philanthropy | |
| 2012 | Graeme Douglas | Pharmaceuticals |
| Bill Gallagher | Agribusiness | |
| Pat Higgins | Construction | |
| Graeme Lowe | Agribusiness | |
| Thomas Macarthy | Brewing and investment | |
| Mary Jane Milne | Millinery and drapery | |
| 2013 | John Anderson | Banking |
| Val Barfoot | Real estate | |
| George Fistonich | Winemaking | |
| Colin Giltrap | Motor industry | |
| Hugh Green | Civil construction | |
| Mary Jane Innes | Brewing | |
| Dryden Spring | Agriculture | |
| Maurice Thompson | Real estate | |
| 2014 | Graeme Avery | Publishing, food and wine, and sport |
| Jules Fulton | Roading and infrastructure | |
| David Henry | Forestry and wood processing | |
| Bob Hogan | Roading and infrastructure | |
| James McAlpine | Refrigeration | |
| Ralph Norris | Leadership and governance | |
| Don Rowlands | Leadership and governance | |
| Adrienne Stewart | Leadership and governance | |
| 2015 | Annie Cleland Millar | Food services and manufacturing |
| Neville Crichton | Motor industry and superyacht industry | |
| Chris Mace | Construction and investment | |
| Lloyd Morrison | Investment | |
| Alison Paterson | Governance | |
| Russell Pettigrew | Transport and logistics | |
| William and George Winstone | Quarrying and cartage | |
| 2016 | Philip Burdon | Food production, business leadership and public policy |
| Rob Fenwick | Environmental leadership | |
| Noel Holyoake | Heating, ventilation and air conditioning | |
| Peter Jackson | Film | |
| Malcolm McConnell | Engineering | |
| Bruce Plested | Global logistics and transportation | |
| Ward Reid | Rubber industry | |
| John Roberts | Leadership and industry | |
| 2017 | Thomas Edmonds | Food manufacture and commerce |
| Graeme Harrison | Meat industry, food, beverage, agribusiness and export | |
| John and Leonie Hynds | Manufacturing, engineering and infrastructure | |
| George Methven | Engineering and manufacturing | |
| Mavis Mullins | Māori business development and governance | |
| David Nathan | Commerce, property and import / export | |
| Charles Sew Hoy | Gold mining, merchant and entrepreneurship | |
| Pam Williams | Fishing industry, export, aviation and commerce | |
| 2018 | Bill Buckley | Manufacturing |
| Trelise Cooper | Fashion design | |
| James Dilworth | Business | |
| Alan Gibbs | Manufacturing and investment banking | |
| Elspeth Kennedy | Stockbroking, governance and philanthropy | |
| Russell Matthews | Civil engineering | |
| Tony Nightingale | Manufacturing | |
| Graeme and Craig Turner | Manufacturing | |
| 2019 | John Ballantyne | Retail |
| John and David Bayley | Real estate | |
| Bernie and Kaye Crosby | Food | |
| John Davies | Tourism | |
| Jane Hunter | Winemaking | |
| Samuel Nichol | Merchandise and shipping | |
| Noel Robinson | Manufacturing and commerce | |
| Mark Waller | Healthcare and governance | |
| 2020 | Robert Anderson | Commercial enterprise |
| Peri Drysdale | Fashion and manufacturing | |
| Tracy Gough | Engineering services | |
| Kevin Hickman | Care and health services | |
| Brendan Lindsay | Food storage | |
| Paul Morgan | Māori enterprise | |
| John Ryder | Care and health services | |
| Ken Stevens | Systems innovation | |
| James Henry Whittaker | Confectionery | |
| 2022 | Ulu Aiono | Technology and community health |
| Charles and Jessie Begg | Music | |
| Graeme Hart | Investment | |
| Bruce McLaren | Engineering | |
| Les, Jackie and Phillip Mills | Health and fitness | |
| Greg Tomlinson | Investment | |
| Pania Tyson-Nathan | Tourism | |
| 2023 | Paul Adams | Property development |
| Michael Barnett | Business | |
| Theresa Gattung | Female advancement and entrepreneurship | |
| Ted Manson | Property development and social equity | |
| Kingi Smiler | Māori agribusiness and primary sector | |
| Wally Stone | Tourism | |
| Kelly Tarlton | Tourism | |
| 2024 | Rod Duke | Retailing |
| Mark Dunajtschik | Engineering, property and philanthropy | |
| Diane Foreman | Entrepreneurship | |
| Owen Glenn | Business and philanthropy | |
| Todd Heller | Food production | |
| Ranjna Patel | Community empowerment | |
| Ian Taylor | Technology |
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