Story: Large companies

More links and websites

• Fletcher Challenge archives

  The history of one of New Zealand’s largest companies.

• Fonterra

  Information about New Zealand’s giant dairy cooperative.

• The University of Auckland business history project

  Historic profiles of some of Auckland’s longest-lasting companies.

More suggestions and sources

• Hawke, Gary. The making of New Zealand: an economic history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

• Hunt, Graeme. The rich list: wealth and enterprise in New Zealand, 1820–2003. Auckland: Reed, 2000.

• Hunter, Ian. Age of enterprise: rediscovering the New Zealand entrepreneur, 1880–1910. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.

• Jones, Stephen. Capital markets and the emergence of large scale companies in New Zealand, 1860–1900. Auckland: University of Auckland, Dept. of Economics, 1992.