JENNY RUTH: Comvita’s new chief might be just the tonic

JENNY RUTH: Comvita’s new chief might be just the tonic
Jenny Ruth
Comvita's annual results could be a classic case of a new chief executive cleaning out as many skeletons as possible from a company's closets to give himself a clean slate from which his future performance can be measured.The $9.7 million net loss for the June year included write-offs of a number of relatively small investments and businesses.While David Banfield presented the first-half results in February, he only became CEO in January, so the annual result was the first he could be held responsible for.But some of the details he reve...

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