My Net Worth: Ben Reid, managing director of Milk NZ

Ben Reid once ran away from boarding school for four nights – including the coldest of the year – and slept on the streets.

Jacques Steenkamp

Sun, 15 Sep 2024

Twenty years ago, Ben Reid became the managing director and co-founder of Milk New Zealand, a multi-disciplined Australasian creative studio that has since been behind some of the biggest rebrandings in this country and Australia and has picked up a plethora of awards along the way. He and wife Helen have three children.I was born in Lower Hutt, so I'm a Hutt boy, yeah. But I'm now based in Auckland; my family is up here, and Milk is up here. We live in Pt Chev, and Milk is based in Grey Lynn. Growing up in the Hutt was interesting...

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