New Zealand Post chief executive to take up new role

New Zealand Post chairman Jim Bolger has announced that the Group’s chief executive John Allen will leave at the end of June 2009 to take up the appointment of chief executive and secretary of foreign affairs and trade.

New Zealand Post chairman Jim Bolger has announced that the Group’s chief executive John Allen will leave at the end of June 2009 to take up the appointment of chief executive and secretary of foreign affairs and trade.

Bolger said that under Allen’s leadership the Group had achieved year-on-year growth and strengthened the Group’s focus on maintaining a diversified business portfolio.

“John has been involved in Post businesses for more than 20 years, the last six years as chief executive. He has led the organisation’s consistent growth, engendering goodwill for the Group and its people. He has cemented our partnership with DHL in both New Zealand and in Australia, overseen Datamail’s Australasian expansion, and has helped enable Kiwibank’s extraordinary development,” Bolger said.

The search for a replacement has begun.