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Article: THE MANAGEMENT INTERVIEW; Tony Nowell - More than sweet talk Toffee Pops and corn chips may be the daily fare for Griffin's Tony Nowell but his vision for New Zealand spreads far beyond the snack food business.
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- New Zealand Management
- Article date:
- May 11, 2005
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New Zealand's biscuit boss is a cracker. A chat with Tony Nowell
is a rapid crunch through Calvinistic work ethics, French business
culture and the lamentable absence of civics teaching in New Zealand
schools. Not a mallowpuff in sight.
The Griffin's Foods managing director has been back in New Zealand
five years now after 13 years away. He spent most of that time in
Asia working first for French multinational L'Oreal and then American
global giant Sara Lee, bringing back a keen international perspective
and a strong desire to shoulder a swag of the workload needed to help
define the environment in which local businesses now operate.
It is, he says, fundamentally important for business ...