Trade Me still a growth company: CEO

Trade Me still a growth company: CEO
Paul McBeth
By Paul McBeth Sept. 6 (BusinessDesk) - Trade Me is poised for another growth spurt under new chief executive Anders Skoe, who wants to take the online classifieds business and turn it into a real digital marketplace. The company was clocking high single-digit revenue growth in the tail-end of its seven-and-a-half year stint as a public company and was more of a yield play for investors happy to pocket dividend payments from the high-margin business. Trade Me was taken over by private equity firm Apax Partners earlier this year and Sko...

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