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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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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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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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.
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Toll have effectively negotiated with themselves a transaction which is not in line with the board approval that was given,
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Toll has negotiated for itself a 20-year contract which gives it exclusive rights to all of the freight carried by Pacific National in Queensland,