Tower slams GPG poll rights bid
NEW Zealand-based Tower Financial Services Group has hit out at moves by the Guinness Peat Group to strip 150,000 Australian policyholders of their voting rights under Towers planned demutualisation and…
Earnings climb 28per cent for GPG
Sir Ron Brierley's Guinness Peat Group Plc has reported a 28 percent hike in net profit to $20.9 million for the June 30 half-year. The result was boosted by GPGs…
Guinness Peat books $2.5m sale gain
SIR Ron Brierleys Guinness Peat Group will book a profit of $2.5 million after yesterday agreeing to sell its stake in poker machine and hotel operator Ballarat Brewing.After months of…
Brierley group bids for ASC Ltd assets
SIR Ron Brierleys Guinness' Peat Group will snap up the assets of investment company ASC Ltd for $26 million in a deal which will see ASC then taken over by…
Legal tangle
RON Brierleys Guinness Peat Group has moved the battle for control of the Wellingtonbased Colonial Motor Company into the judicial arena.Colonial, in which GPG has amassed a 34 percent stake,…
Feud suits Sir Ron
A FEUD in the Wellington-based. Gibbons family, which controls the besieged Colonial Motor Company, is working to the advantage of raider Sir Ron Brierley. -As the family yesterday filed their…
Sir Ron win
SIR Ron Brierley may at last secure control of a company he has been chasing for the best part of 25 years.His Guinness Peat Group yesterday stepped into the market…
Brierley stake
CRICKET-mad Kiwi corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley will emerge with a substantial holding in David Jones after the float.Brierley and Gary Weisss GPG hold under 10 percent of John Spalvins…
Brierley quits GPG
BRIERLEY Investments Ltd has severed its last link with Guinness Peat Group Plc, the Investment vehicle headed by BILs founder, New Zea- land corporate raider Sir Ron Brierley.BIL said yesterday…
Brierley seeking to reconstruct Adsteam
SYDNEY: Newly-appointed director to the Adsteam Group, Sir Ron Brierley, said yesterday he was seeking a reconstruction of the debt-laden group, which includes Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd, Tooth & Co…