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Investor Centre
Welcome
We are an international natural health products company backed by a strong New Zealand heritage. We are committed to the development of innovative natural health and wellbeing products, backed by credible scientific research.
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2019 Half Year Announcement
February 2019
2018 Full Year Announcement
August 2018
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2018 Half Year Announcement
February 2018
2017 Full Year Announcement
July 2017
- 2017 result up on guidance and return of profitability 2018 - Download
- Appendix 1 - Results - Download
- 2017 Financial Statements - View on Screen
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2017 Half Year Announcement
February 2017
2016 Full Year Announcement
August 2016
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2016 Half Year Announcement
November 2015
Comvita trial demonstrates positive effect of Olive Leaf Extract on cardiovascular disease
June 2015
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Comvita Announce Rights Issue
November 2014
- Comvita Announce Rights Issue - Announcement
- Rights Issue Presentation - Download
- Chairman’s Letter – Renouncable Rights Issue - Download
- CVT Offer Document – Download
- CVT Offer Document – Printable Version
- Notice of Offer of Same Class Financial Products - Download
- Appendix 7 – Renounceable Rights Offer of Ordinary Shares - Download
- Chairmans Letter – Rights Issue to Ineligible Shareholders - Download
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2019 Interim Financial Statements
Comvita announces half year results
2018 Annual Report
Comvita Full Year Result and Strategic Review
2018 Financial Statements
2018 Interim Financial Statements
Comvita announces half year results
2017 Annual Report
2017 Financial Statements
2017 result up on guidance and return of profitability 2018
2017 Interim Financial Statements
Comvita announces half year results
2016 Annual Report
2016 Financial Statements
Comvita announces 15 month result, delivering on guidance
31 March 2016 interim results
2016 Interim Report and Financial Statements
2016 Half Year Announcement
2015 Annual Report
2015 Financial Statements
Comvita Announces Record Earnings
2015 Interim Report and Financial Statements
2015 Half Year Announcement
2014 Annual Report
2014 Half Year Announcement
2014 Financial Statements
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Neil John Craig
B.AG COM (ECONOMICS) | NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN | TAURANGA
Neil has been Chairman of Comvita since September 2005. He is Executive Chairman of Craigs Investment Partners, a New Zealand Exchange Participant Firm and New Zealand's largest retail broking firm. Craigs Investment Partners has approximately 310 staff across 17 branches throughout New Zealand.
Luke Bunt
CA, CMInstD | Independent Director | Auckland
A professional director and consultant, Luke has over 30 years experience in manufacturing, wholesaling and retailing in both durable goods and FMCG and has considerable experience in financial services and property. He has held senior executive positions in a number of well-known New Zealand corporates, both public and private. This includes ten years with The Warehouse Group where he was Chief Financial Officer and Head of Property, and 10 years with the DB Group where he was Group General Manager Finance and Planning. Luke is a member of the NZ Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Directors in NZ. He joined the Comvita board in July 2014.
Sarah Kennedy
Independent Director, Auckland
Sarah is the CEO of Lifestream International, a 100% New Zealand owned company specialising in bioavailable, ethical, plant-based health foods. Prior to this she was the CEO of Designer Textiles International. From 2011 to 2014, Sarah was with Fonterra and held roles as Vice President International Farming based in China, Managing Director of Dairy Nutrition and Managing Director of RD1 - Fonterra's chain of rural retail stores. Prior to that, Sarah had 10 years as Managing Director of Healtheries/Vitaco NZ Limited and during this time she handled the sales and distribution role for Comvita in NZ. During her time at Healtheries, she oversaw the merger of Healtheries with Nutralife, doubling the size of the organisation and increasing market share significantly in both NZ and Australia, along with taking the business into international markets. Sarah is originally a veterinarian by training and has held a number of other senior executive positions in agribusiness and food industries. Sarah joined Comvita as a newly appointed Director in July 2015.
Murray Denyer
LLB, BCom. | Independent Director | Mt Maunganui
Murray is an experienced commercial lawyer, having advised and worked with both large and medium sized New Zealand companies, State Owned Enterprises and government departments. As a former New Zealand diplomat and government international trade lawyer, he also has specialist expertise in international trade law and policy. Murray was General Counsel and Board Secretary with Zespri International Limited and is now a Partner at law firm, Cooney Lees Morgan in Tauranga, which he joined in 2009. His legal practice spans company and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions and agribusiness. Murray also has extensive experience in human resources and remuneration matters. He is a founding Director of Rockit Global Limited, a fast-growing global marketer of the premium Rockit branded miniature apple variety. Murray joined the Board in April 2016.
Brett Hewlett
B.Food.Tech, MBA, MInstD | Independent Director | Mt Maunganui
Brett is a professional director and consultant. He is an Independent Director and Chairman of private company BlueLab Corporation Ltd, Director of SeaDragon Ltd (NZX:SEA), Chairman of Priority One, Tauranga and Western BOP's economic development agency, a Board member of Enterprise Angels as well as a Member of the Callaghan Innovation Stakeholder Advisory Group. Brett is a former member of the New Zealand Trade and Enterprise's Better by Design Advisory Board and former Chief Executive Officer of Comvita. Prior to Comvita, he held a number of senior roles with global packaging firm Tetra Pak. Brett has a Bachelor of Food Technology from Massey University, and a Masters of Business Administration from the International Institute for Management Development, Switzerland. He has also completed advanced management programmes at Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management. Brett is a Member of the Institute of Directors, he joined the Board in May 2017.
Paul Reid
Independent Director | Wellington
Paul is an innovative thinker who understands digital trends and application in the commercial area. Currently Paul is Chair of Figured (an accounting platform for farming businesses) and Pukeko Pictures GP (Global Entertainment Company), Director of Software Education and an advisory board member to several technology businesses. He has held a number of key executive roles in the transformation of businesses including NZ Post Group, Air New Zealand, MetService and Carter Holt Harvey. Paul holds honours degrees in Mathematics and Operations Research. In May 2017, Paul joined the Board.
Xin Wang
Bachelor of Science, MBA | Director | China
Ms Xin Wang is the General Manager of Corporate Strategy and Development Department at China Resources Enterprise Limited. She was previously the Assistant General Manager of China Resources Ng Fung Limited, in charge of Strategy and Corporate Development. She joined China Resources Group in 2010. Prior to that, she was with McKinsey & Company. Currently, Ms Xin Wang is also a non-independent director of NZX listed New Zealand King Salmon Investment Limited. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Fudan University, an MBA degree from Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University and a Master’s degree from University of Illinois at Chicago. Ms Xin Wang has extensive experience in strategy, investment and FMCG industries in the China market.
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Scott Coulter
B. Tech (Biotech), BBS (Accounting) | Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Scott was appointed CEO of Comvita Limited in October 2015. He joined Comvita as Sales and Marketing Manager in 2003, following senior management roles in sales and marketing at Dominion Salt and Tetra Pak. In 2007, he took on additional managerial and operating responsibilities and became Comvita's Chief Marketing Officer. Scott was appointed Chief Operating officer and Deputy CEO in 2012. Over his 13 year tenure, Scott has had extensive experience in implementing Comvita's global strategy for operations, sales and marketing. He was personally named as winner of the Export NZ Bay of Plenty Achiever award in 2010 and was awarded the 2013 NZ Prime Minister's Business Scholarship, completing the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2014. Scott has a Bachelor of Technology (Biotech) and a Bachelor of Business Studies (Accounting).
Mark Sadd
BBS, GradDipFin | Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)
Mark joined Comvita in December 2013 and during his tenure has held a number of commercial roles including the position of Chief Financial Officer for three years prior to his appointment as Chief Commercial Officer. Mr Sadd also act in a number of governance roles for the various joint ventures that Comvita operates within, at either a Director or Chairman level. He also acts in the capacity of Deputy CEO for Comvita.
Prior to his appointment at Comvita, Mark successfully ran a number of his own business interests in both management and governance roles, worked in various advisory roles and held a number of senior financial positions in the New Zealand agricultural sector. Mr Sadd brings strong business acumen with considerable experience in turnarounds, profit optimisation, development opportunities and acquisitions including major supply and commercial agreements.
Colin Baskin
DipT, MBA (Distinction) |Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO)
Chief Supply Chain Officer, Colin Baskin, has an international career in Supply Chain within the Primary Sector and joined Comvita in 2007 from ZESPRI International Ltd., where he was Global Supply Manager. In 2014, as General Manager Supply Chain, Colin personally received the Bay of Plenty Tertiary Partnership Export Achievement Award and in May 2015 the Comvita Supply Chain was awarded the NZ China Trade Association (NZCTA) award for Supply Chain Innovation.
As CSCO, Colin has responsibility for Comvita's global supply network including, Olive Products Australia, Kiwi Extracts Ltd, NZ Honey and the Kiwi Bee Apiaries operations. Leading a large team, Colin's focus is on delivering supply efficiencies and enhancing our Supply Partnership.
Simon Pothecary
BA, DipM, DipF | Chief Sales Officer (CSO)
Simon Pothecary joined Comvita in 2006 as General Manager UK, Europe and the Middle East before becoming the General Manager of Australia in 2014
His responsibilities have recently been expanded to include domestic NZ, UK and the USA. Prior to Comvita, Simon was a Marketing Director for Consumer Healthcare at GlaxoSmithKline and prior to that, held global and local marketing roles at Pfizer Consumer Healthcare
Ben Shaw
BA, PGDipCom (Marketing) | Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)
Ben Shaw joined Comvita in September 2015 as General Manager Category. He was previously Senior Category Manager at Asahi Premium Beverages where he oversaw the Beer and Cider portfolios.
During this period he launched a number of new brands including the Boundary Road Brewery craft beer range and worked with multiple international brand owners. Prior to this he was Marketing Manager at Les Mills International and held numerous marketing roles at DB Breweries.
Saada McNamee
BA, Psychology, English Literature | Chief People and Culture Officer (CPCO)
Saada McNamee joined Comvita in February 2019 as Chief People and Culture Officer. Saada has extensive global Human Resources experience, across multiple industries. Prior to joining Comvita, she spent 10 years with Colgate-Palmolive in HR leadership positions in New Zealand, the United States and Europe.
Most recently, she was Human Resources Director, Europe, Middle East and Russia for Colgate-Palmolive’s Pet Nutrition business, Hill’s. In this role she led key leadership development and people initiatives to support a rapidly evolving business environment, including building organisational capability in eCommerce, and agile ways of working. Prior to Colgate-Palmolive, Saada held various HR positions at Hewlett-Packard, The Warehouse, ANZ Bank and Euroclear, in New Zealand, Australia and the UK.
Julianne Keast
CA, BMS (1st Class Hons, Accounting) | Chief Financial Officer Acting (CFO)
Julianne joined Comvita in 2010 as Financial Accounting Manager, tasked with responsibility for external audit, tax and financial compliance.
For the past two years she has been General Manager Finance focusing on both financial and management accounting. She comes from a strong financial accounting background, previously working at KPMG Wellington and Tauranga offices for 9 years as Audit Manager, working across a range of industries. As CFO Acting, Julianne's focus is on empowering the business to make sound financial decisions and supporting the finance team to provide both internal and external financial information, that assists in timely decision making with a forward-looking focus.
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- Corporate Governance
Comvita's Board of Directors is responsible for the corporate governance of the Company. They are committed to best practice governance policies and structures.
The corporate governance policies, practices and processes followed by the Board are set out below:
Comvita Corporate Governance
DownloadConstitution of Comvita
DownloadBoard Charter
DownloadRemuneration and People & Culture Committee Charter
DownloadAudit and Risk Committee Charter
DownloadInsider Trading Policy
DownloadContinuous Disclosure Policy
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Investor Contact
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Investor Contact
Comvita Limited
23 Wilson Road South, Paengaroa, 3189
Private Bag 1, Te Puke, 3153
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
Ph +64 7 533 1426
Fax +64 7 533 1118For further queries or information, please contact:
Jodie Williams - Investor Relations
Investor.Relations@comvita.com
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