Cash rich GPG has no plans in NZ
Sir Ron Brierleys investment vehicle, Guinness Peat Group, is looking to England and Australia for opportunities to spend an estimated $500-$600 million war chest. Speaking at the weekend, GPG director…
A sorry saga for story of the year
They fell hard at Brierley Investments this year - executives, directors, dividends and share values as power shifts inside New Zealands fourth-largest company burst into the public arena.
Not the BIL they wanted
Sir Ron Brierley got the demi-god treatment from adoring shareholders at BIL's annual meeting... but he must share the blame for the company's woes.
The Matthew Diaries
Business editor Graeme Peters talks to former Brierley Investments chairman Bob Matthew about his year from hell. This was Bob Matthews year of living dangerously. The 54-year-old has endured a…
Ex Chair Matthew threatens to sue BIL
Former Brierley Investments chairman Bob Matthew says he is considering suing the company he led for five years and people linked to BIL for damage to his reputation. An angry…
Defending the downturn
PAUL COLLINS is used to negative publicity about Brierley Investments, but that doesnt mean he likes it.Collins, at the helm of BIL since 1985, says bad vibes make him more…
Troubled giant
It's the company everyone loves to hate. Sharebrokers, analysts, investors and the media never seem to tire of poking the borax at Brierley Investments Ltd (BIL). Critics have been hammering…
BIL attempt to take over IEP stalls
Brierley Investments' scheme of arrangement to fully take over its Hong Kong-based subsidiary Industrial Equity (Pacific) has struck problems at the final hurdle. At a hearing yesterday the Hong Kong…
Investors approve IEP takeover
Industrial Equity Pacific shareholders yesterday approved a share-based scheme of arrangement for IEP parent Brierley Investments to take the company over. Directors told the Stock Exchange the scheme would become…
Brierley Investments sells more assets in Britain
Wellington-based Brierley Investments today announced it had sold more of its British assets, and had put forward proposals for the future development of one of the British companies it has…