Dairy, Meat, Livestock and Agribusiness
Dairy Farmers
NZ Dairy Board
NZ Dairy Group
CSR Sugar
SunRice
Parmalat
Vitasoy
Ridley Corporation
Australian Wool Innovation
Bundaberg Sugar
Federal Department of Primary Industry/ABARES
Meat & Livestock Australia
Description of Dairy, Meat, Livestock and Agribusiness experience
Automotive, Vehicle Leasing and Rental
ORIX
Equipment hire (various)
Toyota
Nissan
Ford
Fleet management and leasing (various)
Description of Automotive, Vehicle Leasing and Rental experience
Beverages
Lion
Cadbury Schweppes
Bundaberg Brewed Drinks
Pepsi
Fosters
CC Amatil
Cottees
Independent Liquor
Description of Alcoholic and Non Alcoholic Beverages experience
Building, Home Products and Hardware
Alesco
GWA
Hills Technologies
Protector Safety
Hills/Masters Hardware
Crane/Iplex Piping
Description of Building, Home Products and Hardware experience
Healthcare, Insurance and Pharmaceuticals
OPSM/Protector Safety
Fauldings
Hills Health Technologies
Garvin Institute
Ridley animal phamaceuticals and nutriceuticals
St Vincent’s Hospital/UNSW
Pharmacy new entry, acquisition
Health Insurance M&A due diligence
Aged Care Facilities
Description of Healthcare, Insurance and Pharmaceuticals experience
Energy, Utilities and Resources
Energy Australia
PowerTel
Integral Energy
ACTEW
Tomago Aluminium
PowerCor
Macquarie Generation
NZ Energy Generators/Distributors
Mighty River Power
Hydro Tasmania
Sydney Water
Gas & Fuel Victoria
ETSA
Financial Services, Private Equity and Professional Services
AXA/National Mutual
ORIX
Pacific Equity Partners
CVC Private Equity
Ironbridge Private Equity
Deloitte
Freehills
Grant Thornton
Wesley College/Sydney University
Description of Financial Services, Private Equity, and Professional Services experience
Food Manufacturing and Distribution
Mars
Simplot
Burns Philp
Heinz Foods
Smiths Snackfoods
Goodman Fielder
Cadbury
Kellogg
Nestle
CSR Sugar
SunRice/RiceGrowers Co-Operative
Independent Wholesale Groceries
Description of Food Manufacturing and Distribution experience
Retail
Just Group
Pepkor/Harris Scarf/Best & Less/Postie
Super Retail Group/BCF/MacPac
OPSM
Thorn
Telstra
BOC Gases
David Jones
Corporate Express
Property, Transport and Government
Mirvac
Charter Hall
Real Estate Investment Banking, PA, USA
UNSW/Prince of Wales Hospital Bio Hub
RailCorp
NSW Government/Land Development & Planning
SSL Australian Container Coastal Shipping Line
Cleanaway Fleet Management
ORIX Truck & Trailer
Fleet Leasing & Management
NSW Department of Transport
Austrade
Brambles Logistics
Federal Department of Primary Industry/ABARES
Federal Department of Industry, Science & Technology
R&D and High Technology
UNSW/Prince of Wales Technology BioHub
Solution 6
Hills Technology
Simplot Technology
Bishop Technology
Telecommunications
Telstra
AAPT
Vodafone
Clear Communications (NZ)
PowerTel/Energy Australia
SingTel
PLDT (Philippines)
Telecom NZ
“I have worked with Larry and his team during my tenure as CEO of an international alcoholic beverages company and prior to that as MD of a global soft drinks company’s Australasia region … the work was of the highest order – rigorous, analytical, user friendly and actionable … the working relationship was enjoyable but tough and challenging when required … they believe that for the work to be successful the working relationship with me and my management team was important and that the client must ‘own’ the work.”
CEO, international alcoholic and drinks company
“I have worked with Larry Cornell and his team for over 15 years … they have always delivered on our expectations, whether it was on acquisition due diligence, go-to-market strategies, competitive strategies or organisation restructuring … but what I particularly value is their ability to work with us to implement the recommendations across the company.”
CEO, international financial services corporation
“CK Partners’ work on macro-economic leading indicators and competitive analysis was of great value to us.”
CFO, international listed apparel wear company
“The work of the CK Consulting team greatly enhanced our discussions and decisions as a board and senior management team … they brought new market and competitive insights to bear and provided a rigorous and logical model for us to work with.”
CEO, listed fashion and casual wear apparel company
“CK Partners has done some great work for our company... the way they challenged management’s thinking and used creative approaches to our M&A due diligence and reviews of our businesses. More Boards and management should use the sorts of analysis and approaches to testing our internal views that these guys do...”
CEO, listed agribusiness company
“… Our challenge was to develop a marketing strategy that would identify the product offering and segment pricing that would allow us to grow our market share in existing and emerging customer segments ... the uniqueness of CK Partners was to provide that insight through a rigorous approach of accessing primary data sources and developing and testing hypotheses against the new fact set … the result was a practical and implementable go-to-market strategy to successfully build our share and lift returns to the business.”
CEO, listed Australian diversified corporation