Infratil, Aussies, and Kiwi cringing defiance

Infratil, Aussies, and Kiwi cringing defiance
Pattrick Smellie
The scene is etched in my mind. It must have been early January 2006, in a conference room at the head office of Contact Energy, where I worked at the time in the corporate communications team.Plucked back from annual leave, a roomful of us had just been briefed on the plan by Contact’s then majority owner, Sydney-headquartered Origin Energy, about a bold move to combine the two companies in what Origin called the ‘DLC’.That stood for dual-listed company and the plan was to call the new entity Contact-Origin.It was to be bille...

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