Bluestone scales back NZ business

Luke Roberts, national Select partnership manager, acknowledged the current position and that some staff had been laid off as a result, although he refused to provide numbers, but said others had been redeployed to work for the Australian business.

Mike Kinley is the other remaining local staffer and is business development manager BDMs for the South Island.

Amongst the redundancies is Sue Griffiths who headed up the New Zealand sales operation.

Sydney-based head of marketing, Katie Bell, also avoided answering the question of how many people had been made redundant, but TMM's own reporting can identify at least three BDMs had been employed in NZ since 2021 who no longer work for Bluestone.