General Manager -Cupolex Building Systems Limited / Cupolex Australasia Limited. November 2010 -April 2013
- Cupolex owned the NZ and Australasian manufacturing and distribution rights to an innovative Italian concrete foundation system.
- Took over non performing business units in 2010, changed the businesses route to market and restructured staff.
- Cupolex Australasia had sales of less than $50K per annum in 2010.
- Sourced and signed distributor in Australia for NSW, VIC, QLD and ACT by month five increasing revenues to in excess of $2M p.a by April 2013
- Revenues for NZ up 135% by April 2013 despite a recession in the building industry through this period, and the group is now profitable by a sizeable amount.
- Presentations to local body councils, group housing companies, Master and Certified Builders meetings, Structural Engineers, Architects, Drainage Engineers.
- The six directors decided to scale back the NZ business and profit take against my advice and I resigned.
- Even with negative growth since I resigned, I have remained in touch with the company. The distributor that I originally introduced has since purchased the company giving the shareholder’s a great return on their initial investment which they are very happy with.
- This was very much disruptive technology to the incumbent polystyrene raft slab technology which is the market leader.