Lorna Jane
Lorna Jane is an activewear and lifestyle women’s wear fashion brand. Founded in 1989, in Australia by Lorna Jane Clarkson, the female-founded activewear brand has 107 stores throughout Australia and New Zealand.
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Heartland Bank
Heartland Bank is 100% New Zealand owned and operated. It’s a subsidiary of Heartland Group Holdings Limited.
Cotton:On Group
Cotton On is one of Australia’s largest global fashion brands and part of the Cotton:On group. The first Cotton On store opened in 1991 in Geelong and now has over 1500 stores in 12 countries, including New Zealand.
Kathmandu
Kathmandu was founded in New Zealand, specialising in clothing and equipment for travel and the outdoors. At present, it is a global outdoor, lifestyle, and sports retailer that is part of KMD Brands (formerly known as Kathmandu Holdings Limited), with stores nationwide and global branches in Australia, the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, and France.
Foodstuffs
Foodstuffs (NZ) Ltd is a New Zealand grocery company which owns retail franchises New World, Pak’nSave, Four Square, LiquorLand, Gilmours, and in-store private label Pams. Foodstuffs operates over 400 retail stores as of 2020, and serves an estimated 3.6 million customers each week.
Woolworths
Woolworths (formerly Countdown) is a full-service supermarket chain, and a subsidiary of the Australian Woolworths Group. Alongside Foodstuffs (New World, Pak’nSave, Four Square), Woolworths NZ forms part of the New Zealand supermarket duopoly.
Bunnings
Bunnings Group Limited, trading as Bunnings Warehouse or Bunnings, is an Australian household hardware and garden centre chain. The chain has been owned by Wesfarmers since 1994, and has stores in Australia and New Zealand. There are 40+ Bunnings stores throughout New Zealand.
Westpac
Westpac provides a full range of banking and financial services, including online banking, bank accounts, home loans/mortgages, credit cards, personal loans, foreign exchange, insurance, KiwiSaver funds management, investment funds, and business banking.
Vector
Vector Limited delivers energy and communication services across Australasia and the Pacific. Its primary business is electricity distribution, along with distributing piped gas. It also has a bottled gas business, owns a fibre optic cable network (Vector Fibre), deploys electricity and gas meters, manages solar infrastructure projects and offers cybersecurity services and a data platform. It is also the parent company of HRV ventilation solutions.
Genesis Energy
Genesis Energy Limited is an electricity generation and electricity, natural gas and LPG retailing company. It was formed as part of the 1998–99 reform of the New Zealand electricity sector, taking its generation capacity from the breakup of the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand (ECNZ) and taking retail customers from three local power boards in the Lower North Island. The New Zealand Government owns a 51% share of the company.