Ralph Norris
Ralph Norris
Sir Ralph James Norris KNZMis a New Zealand banker and businessman. He is chair of Contact Energy, Fletcher Building and RANQX Holdings...
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As an integrated financial services organization, it is important that the bank's leaders understand multiple areas of the business by undertaking different management roles.
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You just can't continue to keep pushing prices up and certainly we've gone probably about as far as we can go with fuel surcharges,
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We're predicting that if fuel prices remain around these sorts of levels, then it could have an impact of around 40 percent on our after-tax profit.
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We're probably in a situation where interest rates will stay somewhere around the current levels.
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We remain on track to deliver earnings per share growth for the 2006 fiscal year which equals or exceeds the average of our peers.
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We've got to look at ways and means of being more competitive. We operate in a market.
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We haven't been as effective as we could have been in handling our IT operations.