Chris Corrigan
Chris Corrigan
Chris Corriganis an Australian businessman. He was the Managing Director of the Patrick Corporation until it was taken over in 2006...
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All Patrick employees who went to Pacific National when the joint venture was formed in 2002 were required to resign from Patrick and did not receive further options from Patrick,
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I imagine we'll start off with: Great opportunity to come into a dysfunctional organisation, work for two shareholders who are at each other's throats, expect to receive the occasional barrage of emails and the odd derogatory, blasphemous phone message,
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It would be more valuable to Patrick and Toll shareholders if (chief executive) Paul Little focused on an orderly break-up of Pacific National which is now deteriorating daily.
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Far from being a serious bid to build an Asian-Pacific colossus, the bid is a crude maneuver to stop Patrick competing with Toll in Australia. Patrick doesn't need Toll.
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Everything we have learned about Toll in the last seven months has confirmed our belief that Toll has lower quality assets and a higher risk earnings profile.
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Originally Toll wanted to buy that through Pacific National,
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The support for cleaning this up, I have to tell you, is overwhelming. And it is about time we got on with the job of cleaning up the waterfront and making it a productive place for all Australians.
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The Toll bid was ill-conceived from the outset. It has been a failure of both strategy and execution.
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The Toll bid is an act of desperation,
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We had a look at it and decided it wasn't something we wanted to be involved in.
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We have been trying for months to get an investigation underway into this deal which was negotiated between Toll employees and former Toll employees who were being given Toll options while working at Pacific National,
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I worry about those people (Toll) being in charge of $10 billion (combined) company,
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well into an investment cycle that should lead to long-term consistent growth from a stable of high quality strategic businesses.
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Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.