Fletcher Building is one of the biggest building materials suppliers and construction firms in Australasia; with 18,000 employees, it is one of New Zealand’s largest listed companies.
Rodney Deacon is chief financial officer of Residential and Development, one of the company’s six divisions, which builds and markets around a thousand homes a year in New Zealand. This includes master-planning large residential subdivisions, apartments, and retirement villages, with a wide range of house topologies. It also develops industrial land, and its CleverCore business is an offsite manufacturer of homes. Five years ago, the division upgraded its ERP.