How coincidental

Friday, February 11th 2011, 11:17AM 3 Comments

I had a little chuckle the other day. When I was in Auckland I thought it would be useful to catch up with Naomi Ballantyne and her team at Partners Life (sometimes cheekily referred to as Sovereign Mark III) to see what was happening. The address was in Takapuna on the North Shore and it seemed (for a country lad like me) that this was near where Sovereign used to be. Well I was more correct than I thought! Partners Life is in a building behind where Sovereign was, but in actual fact it was a building the old company used before it moved to its rather swish new quarters up the motorway in Smales Farm. I reckon that if you moved the cars in the allocated Partners Life carparks that it would still have Sovereign painted on the tar seal. Talk about going full circle.

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On 11 February 2011 at 1:26 pm Russell Hutchinson said:

You'd have to go back to Anzac Street, only... nobody wants to.

No, I think Partner's Life new home has been chosen not because it is talismanic or superstitious, but because Takapuna is a nice place to work.

On 11 February 2011 at 2:43 pm Ray said:

And there's a lot of vacant office space going cheap, as everyone's moving to Smales or Albany.

On 14 February 2011 at 7:44 am Louise said:

Hopefully they've got rid of the cockroaches that used to fall from the ceiling ;-) Though they are probably holding the building up.

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