My Net Worth: Shaun Newman, joint MD of TrailLite

My Net Worth: Shaun Newman, joint MD of TrailLite
Shaun Newman.
Jacques Steenkamp
Shaun Newman is the joint managing director at TrailLite, a family-owned business operating for the past 70 years. It manufactures and sells luxury caravans and motorhomes. Newman has been working for the company for the past two decades. He and his wife, Lisa, have three children – Greer, 19, Heath, 17, and Otis, 14. I grew up in Pukekohe. I was born in 1974, and my father, Peter, bought our business in 1980, but he'd been working there since probably 1972, maybe even earlier than that. Growing up in Pukekohe and...

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