Richard Hopkins

Ballance Agri-Nutrients Ltd. manufactures and supplies fertilizers. Its products include nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur and magnesium fertilizers. The firm's micronutrient products include selenium, molybdenum, cobalt, boron and copper. Its services include super air, farm sustainability, self service silo, MitAgator, direct to farm, mapping and other related services. The company was founded on March 29, 1955 and is headquartered in Mt. Maunganui, New Zealand.

Westpac Institutional Bank provides banking and financial services. It delivers financial products and services to commercial, corporate, institutional and government customers. The company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Credit Suisse Group AG is a holding company, which engages in the provision of financial services. It operates through the following four divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Bank, Swiss Bank and Asset Management and four geographic regions: Switzerland, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia Pacific, and Americas. The Wealth Management division offers comprehensive wealth management and investment solutions, tailored financing, and advisory services to ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) and high net-worth (HNW) individuals and external asset managers. The Investment Bank division offers a broad range of financial products and services focused on client-driven businesses and also supports Credit Suisse’s Wealth Management division and its clients. The Swiss Bank division offers comprehensive advice and a wide range of financial solutions to private, corporate, and institutional clients in Switzerland. The Asset Management division offers investment solutions and services globally to a broad range of clients, including pension funds, governments, foundations and endowments, corporations, and individuals. The company was founded by Alfred Escher on July 5, 1856 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland.

Part of HSBC Holdings Plc, HSBC Investment Bank Plc provides stock broking services. The company is based in London, UK.

Ballance Agri-Nutrients (Kapuni) Ltd. operates a co-operative for farmers. Its products include hatuma, pasturezeal, pasturemag, magnesium, potash and phosphate fertilizers, sulphurgain, superten, sustain, yara, cropzeal, nrich, and phasedn. The company was founded on October 10, 1990 and is headquartered in Kapuni, New Zealand.