No it is still 70.
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Just reading through the latest edition of Ryman Times and I see Ryman are top of the class with auditors. Ryman topped every other company in the sector with over 50% of audits with no partial attainments, compare that with Sum which had around 17%, furthermore 13 Ryman villages currently hold the gold standard of a four year certification, eight of them obtained in 2016. Still the pack leader in the sector when it's comes to setting the standards.
Loved the article on the Wiri plant.You would have enjoyed mentioning it at the SUM agm!!,lol.
"With four Auckland villages in various stages of planning and being built,plus a housing boom stretching suppliers to their limits,it made sense for Ryman to set up its own yard to produce the pre-cast concrete"
Ryman is currently not paying tax at a company level because of its growing investment in healthcare infrastructure for the elderly.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/9195...panies-pay-tax
NZ Herald article reports start of building at Brandon Park Village.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11847992
A small inaccuracy there. Brandon Park is south of Wheelers Hill - where Ryman's first Melbourne village is located. Reporter seems to have confused the two areas.
Meanwhile, demolition of the damaged wing at the Malvina Major village appears to be complete. Just a small pile of rubble left when I drove past at the weekend.
Wouldn't be news if it wasn't inaccurate.
Nimby wars! What a planned retirement village in Devonport means for all of Auckland
Is it good enough to settle for developments that are merely 'good enough'?
https://thespinoff.co.nz/auckland/08...l-of-auckland/
The writer seemed to go out of his way to find fault with Ryman. For example, he complained about the Ryman facility where his parents lived: "There was one flourish: an atrium featuring a large fish pond and tropical plants, but it was so clammily overheated the air clung to you like something faintly fetid." Perhaps not being in the target demographic for Ryman at that time and younger than the residents, he did not need a warm atmosphere? Perhaps he would also have found a complaint if there were no plants and his parents complained of the cold at the facility? He was also keen on finding symbols of death in paintings of sunsets and pre-Raphaelite women and cherubs. To me, it seems he was scratching around to find criticism.
There may be valid points in his article. Is the proposed development good enough - probably. Could there be a better development for the site - probably, but then you can say that for many developments. As for the Nimby criticisms, if you do not want intensification, you need to reduce population growth i.e. vote for whoever wants to reduce immigration.
Yes, of course the development could be 'better'. They all can - but at a price - and that would send the facility out of reach of a good chunk of the target market - at a time when the availability and affordability of housing is one of New Zealand's most pressing problems.
There's some of them Joshuatree. I made it crystal clear I though the SP had run far ahead of itself as did Winner69.
I won't comment on the current SP in terms of whether there's value there or not after 3 years of ostensibly going sideways until I've reviewed their result due shortly.