Fletcher boss tells Shareholders Assn he feels their share price pain too

Fletcher boss tells Shareholders Assn he feels their share price pain too
Jenny Ruth
By Jenny Ruth Aug. 31 (BusinessDesk) - Fletcher Building's managing director says one sign his company is on the road back to health is that he's no longer finding businesses within the group that he'd never heard of before. “I've stopped finding new businesses. In the first eight or nine months, I was saying: "What? Where did that come from?” Ross Taylor told the New Zealand Shareholders' Association's annual conference in Christchurch. He was answering a question about whether he was sure he had opened all Fletcher's closets and foun...

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