Hodson to stamp mark on new Spark strategy early next year

Hodson to stamp mark on new Spark strategy early next year
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Aug. 22 (BusinessDesk) - Spark New Zealand's new chief executive Jolie Hodson will outline where she wants to take the country's biggest telecommunications company early next year.  The company is in the final year of a three-year programme to boost its operating earnings margin to at least 31 percent by extracting costs from the business through simplifying services, boosting automation and digitisation, and making better use of its suite of brands. It also introduced a flatter, more autonomous decision-making structure, k...

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