On the Money: Ross George, Rob Morrison, Struan Little, Mario Wynands, a2 milk, the Sustainable Business Network awards and more

We take you inside the carefully curated CEO Index party and a cricket tour of Sri Lanka. (Image: Supplied/NZME/BusinessDesk)

Dileepa Fonseka

Sat, 22 Nov 2025

On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.BusinessDesk held its inaugural CEO Index Awards this week, which will astonish only those who miraculously avoided the content tsunami we unleashed about it.The Park Hyatt played host to a guest list curated with the kind of obsessive care typically reserved for haute couture fittings or wedding seating plans involving feuding family members.Looming over the room, of course, was the economy, which is still behaving like someo...

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