Fletcher’s Ross Taylor: I don’t have any end date

Fletcher’s Ross Taylor: I don’t have any end date
Chief executive Ross Taylor said he stills sees plenty of challenges at Fletcher. (Image: Supplied)
Jenny Ruth
Fletcher Building chief executive Ross Taylor was hired in late 2017 as a “Mr Fixit” to drag the building products and construction company out of the very deep hole it fell into as a result of poor tendering for massive high-rise projects.The size of that hole, about $1 billion in losses, only became apparent once Taylor had swept all the skeletons out of the Fletcher cupboards.Or as he puts it now, his first task had been to “stabilise” the business and “stop the trauma”.The next step was to introduce opera...

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