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October 18, 2011
Chingford Fruit Limited

Sam Howard speaks to Willie Wood, senior sustainable horticulture manager at CFL to find out how partnerships with producers and growers worldwide are impacting the products found on UK supermarket shelves.

Sam Howard speaks to Willie Wood, senior sustainable horticulture manager at CFL to find out how partnerships with producers and growers worldwide are impacting the products found on UK supermarket shelves.

 

Part of the AG Thames group of companies, Chingford Fruit Limited (CFL) was founded in 1966. Over the last forty four years AG Thames has continued to grow through the acquisition of companies within key areas of its business. The group now employs 480 people with offices in South Africa, Italy, Spain, New Zealand and Chile.

August 19, 2011
Capricorn

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 to be the International Year of Co-operatives (IYC) and Capricorn Society Ltd is embracing the opportunity.

The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 to be the International Year of Co-operatives (IYC) and Trent Bartlett, for the last 10 years CEO of Capricorn Society Ltd and a founder of Social Business Australia,has taken on the job of chairing the IYC 2012’s Australian Secretariat. We talk to him about Capricorn, IYC, and his vision for the co-operative movement.

 

August 11, 2011
Chingford Fruit Limited

Willie Wood, senior sustainable horticulture manager at Chingford Fruit Limited, explains how partnerships with producers and growers worldwide are impacting the products found on UK supermarket shelves.

Sam Howard speaks to Willie Wood, senior sustainable horticulture manager at Chingford Fruit Limited, to find out how partnerships with producers and growers worldwide are impacting the products found on UK supermarket shelves.

 

January 7, 2011
Shell to drill New Zealand well

Royal Dutch Shell is to begin drilling an exploration well off the New Zealand coast that could extend the life of the Maui gas field.

Royal Dutch Shell is to begin drilling an exploration well off the New Zealand coast that could extend the life of the Maui gas field.

Drilling ship the Noble Discoverer will drill the Ruru well for Shell Todd Oil Services Ltd. Shell Todd is 50 per cent owned by Todd Energy Ltd. and 50 per cent owned by The Hague-based Shell.

The Ruru well lies approximately 40 kilometres off the Taranki coast on New Zealand’s North Island and is adjacent to the Maui gas field. Maui, which covers an area of 157 square kilometres, began production 30 years ago.

October 13, 2010
Pike River Coal

Mining is often about an underground world of tunnels towards the centre of the earth. At Pike River Coal, however, the challenge of New Zealand’s geology has resulted in tunnelling uphill and a reliance on water.

Mining is often about an underground world of tunnels towards the centre of the earth. At Pike River Coal, however, the challenge of New Zealand’s geology has resulted in tunnelling uphill and a reliance on water. New CEO Peter Whittall explains all to Andrew Pelis.

 

 

 

 

August 7, 2010
Technip Oceania

Thanks to a boom in Australian oil and gas exploration and development, this company is positively thriving, as Gay Sutton finds out.

Australia is enjoying a boom in oil and gas exploration and development. Frans Roozendaal, managing director of Technip Oceania, tells Gay Sutton how the company is thriving in this increasingly competitive environment, and responding to the challenges it presents.

 

 

 

 

August 6, 2010
AECOM expands through acquisition

Technical and management support services consultancy AECOM Technology Corporation has strengthened its global footprint with an agreement to acquire Davis Langdon, a UK-based cost and project management consultancy firm, in a transaction valued at US$324 million.

Technical and management support services consultancy AECOM Technology Corporation has strengthened its global footprint with an agreement to acquire Davis Langdon, a UK-based cost and project management consultancy firm, in a transaction valued at US$324 million.

With 2,800 employees, Davis Langdon serves clients around the world, with a strong presence in Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, the Middle East and the United States.

March 1, 2010
Newmont Ghana Gold

Heart of gold
Mining has come a long way from the old image of human and environmental desolation. Scott Santti explains to Gay Sutton how Newmont Ghana Gold has placed social sustainability at the heart of its operations.
The Newmont Mining Corporation is one of the world’s largest gold producing companies. With operations in the US, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Ghana, it has a portfolio of approximately 38,840 square miles of property and proven and probable gold reserves across all these regions totalling approximately 85 million ounces.

December 1, 2009
Newmont Asia Pacific

Everything is large in scale at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Boddington mine in Australia, including ethical responsibility. Tim Netscher, senior vice president of Asia Pacific operations, tells Gary Toushek about it.

Everything is large in scale at Newmont Mining Corporation’s Boddington mine in Australia, including ethical responsibility. Tim Netscher, senior vice president of Asia Pacific operations, tells Gary Toushek about it.

 

July 1, 2009
Dutco McConnell Dowell

Spreading wings in the Emirates
John O’Hanlon speaks to Dutco McConnell Dowell operations manager Jim Connor about its services to the emerging Middle East aluminium smelting industry.
The partnership that is Dutco McConnell Dowell (DMD) is an equal joint venture between Dutco, one of the oldest businesses in the United Arab Emirates, and McConnell Dowell Corporation of Australia. Dutco is a highly diverse group with interests in leisure, manufacturing, construction and, naturally enough, the oil and gas industries. McConnell Dowell employs approximately 5,000 people and, with headquarters in Melbourne, is a world-class engineering, construction and services company operating throughout Australia, Asia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and the Middle East.

March 24, 2009
ThermaSource

Hot stuff Geothermal power is a growing renewable energy source, which is good news for ThermaSource, Inc., a leading geothermal drilling, engineering and consulting firm, executive vice president Jim Hanson tells Ruari McCallion. No one who has watched a volcano erupt, experienced an earthquake or watched a geyser blow off steam can fail to be impressed with the power of the planet. The challenge is, as always, how to control and tap it.