JOHN DUNCAN-WATT

Qualifications:

  • B.Sc.Agr. (Economics) (Sydney University), MBA (Macquarie), Associate Australian Institute Insurance, SA Fin.

Industries : Listed and private operators (large and small)

  • Agribusiness – dairy, grains, fruit, packaging, beef, poultry, pigs, stockfeed, salt including global operators
  • Wholesaling/Retailing – packaged and fresh food including bakery, general merchandise, hardware, pharmacy, convenience stores (independent and chains), fast food, generics/private label, discount, petroleum, building supplies (and related supply chain), furniture, computers, electrical, mobile phone and related card-based retailing systems (loyalty) etc including global operators
  • Shopping Centre owners in Australasia
  • Beverage manufacturers – alcoholic beverage operators including global operators in both beer and wine industries as well as non alcoholic beverage operators such as aerated and still beverages, fruit juice and dairy beverage operators and their competitors etc
  • Food/Confectionery manufacturers – global and domestic operators in Australasia .

Experience:

  • Agricultural Economist AMP Society
  • Senior Economist AMP Society
  • Head of Industrial Research (Equity Investments) AMP Society responsible for a team of 8 investment analysts covering non-mining companies. The position involved negotiating AMP’s strategic positioning in mergers and acquisition activity for over a decade and an associated close working relationship with Board and Senior Management in many of these companies during this period.
  • Senior Equities Analyst/Director in two major global stockbroking firms
  • Director of his own consulting company advising major institutional investment houses in Australia and NZ on their strategic holdings in ASX listed companies in the above industries.
  • Director Business Development Westpac Institutional Bank Consumer Team which involved the development of banking relationships with major Australasian and global companies in the above industries which extended to funding mergers and acquisitions and discussions of strategic opportunities both domestically and abroad
  • Director of his own consulting company advising and mentoring smaller businesses on key strategic initiatives, implementation of these initiatives including the acquisition and/or sale of businesses (subsidiaries) and specific advice on “growing or going” in association with various strategic partners who service the small business market (businesses in the A$1m to A$50m value range). 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Strategic planning and implementation of competitive positioning
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory
  • Assessment of management competence and associated Board advice
  • Supply Chain positioning
  • Cross industry issues
  • General

John has been involved with most Australasian agribusiness, food, beverage and retailing companies for over thirty years both from the perspective of the head of research for AMP’s equity investment arm throughout the 80s and then working as a rated equities investment analyst for major international stockbroking firms in the first half of the 90s and then as an independent consultant to major institutional equity investors in the latter half of the 90s and then working with one of the four major banks as a Director of Business Development focussing on mergers, acquisitions, strategic planning and funding structures for major clients and prospective clients of the bank in the Consumer area covering the supply chain participants involved with agribusiness, food, beverage and retailing in its widest interpretation in Australasia. For the last four years John has focussed on assisting smaller businesses to restructure their businesses across the spectrum from growing to going including advice on strategic positioning of existing businesses and business planning advice to relative newcomers in new growth segments including mobile phone direct marketing, new packaging segments, new products and new supply chain initiatives.

Through their involvement with convenience stores John has also worked closely with the major petroleum retailing companies in Australasia. Through this involvement he has been working with the global parents of two of these companies working on strategic issues of interest to them in this time zone.

John’s involvement with retailing has included working for global "fast food" companies and major franchisees operating in Australasia.



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