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SAM BAILEY IS CSR Building Products NZ’s new Business Development Manager for the South Island and joins CSR from Outdure Exterior Solutions where he was in a similar role. Sam’s CV also includes trade facing roles over five years at Mitre 10 MEGA Papanui and a stint in account management at Mitre 10 MEGA Hornby.
after school, assembling lawnmowers and pushing a broom. After a couple
of months Les applied for a position in the Inwards Goods Department before being promoted to the paint counter and working up to his current position of Sales Manager in 1983.
Keith Hodges,
Industrial Sales
Rep, began his
career with E Hayes
45 years ago in
1977, in another
traditional manner
– pedalling the
shop delivery bike all over Invercargill. Keith progressed into the dispatch department where he stayed until 1991, before beginning his sales role out on the road. 31 years later, Keith continues to visit industrial and trade customers from Queenstown south, making him one of the longest serving sales reps on the roads around the Southern region.
Peter Muggleston
is Mitre 10 NZ’s new Chief Digital Officer, following three months as Interim CDO. The new CDO’s CV includes 30 years
of technology and strategy experience across well-known Kiwi brands, including Foodstuffs, Tower Insurance and ASB. Winner of the 2015 CIO of
the Year award, “Peter has a passion
for digital innovation and customer experience which are at the forefront of the Mitre 10 transformation programme,” says Mitre 10 NZ. Peter’s predecessor, Phil Coster, who was Mitre 10 NZ’s Chief Digital Officer until May 2022 and the co-op’s CIO over 2014-2021, joined the NZ Automobile Association as Chief Technology Officer earlier this year.
Oliver Munn has joined PlaceMakers as HUB Operations Manager for the Wellington region. Oliver is a former Store Manager for The Warehouse and Warehouse Stationery.
Jake (Cobus) Pretorius is PlaceMakers’ new National Operations Manager –
Manufacturing, having previously been Team Blue’s Hamilton-based Regional Frame & Truss Manager since 2019. Jake comes armed also with eight and half years’ experience in and around builders’ merchanting and construction in the South African market.
Max Serikawa,
Makita NZ’s popular
MD of the last seven
and a half years,
and former GM of
Makita USA 2008-
2015, has moved
on to become
Managing Director
at Makita Nederland. We wish Max well in his new role, but we’ll miss his choice Hardware Awards acceptance speeches!
MATES in Construction has two movers & shakers this month, the first being Rhonda Tyrrell, the organisation’s new Operations Manager. Rhonda comes with 20+ years of experience in operational management in the mental health and social service sectors and joins MATES from Lifeline Aotearoa where she spent the last six years as the Operations / General Manager.
Sadly leaving the organisation is MATES’ second
ever Field
Officer, Slade McFarland, who joined the team back in the early days in October 2019. Slade’s achievements “have
been numerous, and the growth massive,” says MATES. “Nothing that was put in front of Slade was too big or too hard, a bit like being at the front of the scrum, but this time he was doing the mahi for every one of our industry workers.”
Jon Wills has joined Mitre 10 NZ as CX Project Manager within the Customer Experience Central Operations team. Jon
is an experienced retailer with +30 years’ NZ sales and operational management experience with a CV that boasts various roles at Spark 2020-2022, and Retail Support Manager at Briscoe Group over 2011-2019.
Pamela Bell is the new Chief Executive of The New Zealand Institute of Building (NZIOB). The founder and former Chief Executive of PrefabNZ (now OffsiteNZ) and a leading advocate for sustainable, innovative building methods, Pamela takes over from Malcolm Fleming, recently named Chief Executive of construction sector membership association the New Zealand Certified Builders (NZCB).
Zeelesh Govind is Bunnings’ new National Buyer for Cleaning, after four years in roles including Junior Buyer (National) Cleaning & Accessories, Product Development Manager (National) Global Sourcing and Product Development Coordinator (National) Global Sourcing.
Invercargill hardware retailer E Hayes
& Sons celebrates 90 successful years in business this year. Attributing much of its success to its loyal and hard-working staff, the company the iconic retailer was keen to pay tribute to two of its longest serving staff in particular.
E Hayes’ longest serving employee, Sales Manager Les Hoffman, joined the staff full-time 50 years ago in 1972, having already worked in the shop
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