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GJ’s goes Checkmate to keep credit in check
New Zealand’s largest commercial credit bureau, CreditWorks Group, is delighted to announce the support
of NZ’s largest and most successful building group, GJ Gardner Homes, for its new Checkmate commercial credit reporting tool.
CheckMate is a web-based platform that helps people make informed decisions about who they do business with by running a very low-cost, fast, yet comprehensive, commercial credit report on any New Zealand company.
Each CheckMate report provides a Credit Score out of 1,000, the likelihood of failure in the next 18 months (as a simple percentage), as well as other useful information.
GJ’s Grant Porteous says of the company’s decision: “CheckMate’s launch has come at an ideal time, as the building industry experiences unprecedented levels of uncertainty.
“Builders with poor systems and weak balance sheets (retained funds capital) will struggle in these times as we sadly so often see.”
CheckMate should be of particular interest not only to trade suppliers and sub-contractors in the construction sector, but anyone engaging the services of builders and other trades.
“Before you do business with a contractor, check them out, or if you’re doing business already, monitor their ongoing activity and credit exposure in the marketplace as circumstances may change, and not necessarily through their own actions,” says CreditWorks’ Ronnie Tan.
www.creditworks.co.nz
PlaceMakers takes Awards to Christchurch
AT THE END of an intensive two days of conference at Christchurch’s Te Pae facility over 8-9 August, the excellent new conference centre also hosted the 2022 PlaceMakers Awards.
Hosted by Ben Hurley on Tuesday night, the PlaceMakers Awards celebrated initiatives, teams and individuals as follows:
PROTECT Health & Safety Award
– PlaceMakers Christchurch Hub Vaccination Drive
PROTECT Health & Safety – Individual Award – Steve Matiaha, PlaceMakers Delivery Services
Trade Account Manager of the Year – Hunter Johnston, PlaceMakers Christchurch Hub
“$2 Million Club”
• Roger McRae, PlaceMakers Queenstown
• Richard Gill, PlaceMakers Nelson
• Sai Ma, PlaceMakers Auckland South-
East Hub
• Michael George, PlaceMakers Mt
Maunganui
• Frankie Lu, PlaceMakers Auckland Central-North Hub
• Marco Mao, Auckland South-East Hub
• Yuan Pei, Auckland South-East Hub • Rodney O’Neil, PlaceMakers
Ashburton
• Kim Wilson, PlaceMakers Wanaka
• Geordon Welsh, PlaceMakers Okatia
Hub
• Marc Sandri, PlaceMakers Aoraki Hub PlaceMakers Person of the Year – Rowena Massey, PlaceMakers Pukekohe Branch of the Year – PlaceMakers Ashburton
Memorial Award – Blair Page, PlaceMakers Head of Sales Capability (photo below)
Supplier of the Year – Small – Soudal Supplier of the Year – Medium – Sika Supplier of the Year – Large
– Niagara
We will be covering this year’s conference in-depth and more on the awards in our October magazine.
www.placemakers.co.nz
8 NZHJ | AUGUST 2022
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