Shareholders quizzed the leadership of Dunedin’s Scott Technology about its commitment to diversity and its movement of manufacturing from Germany to China given the unstable relationship between that country and Australia. One shareholder watching the meeting online asked what Scott’s board’s was doing about diversity, given the board itself was all male. Mr Kippenberger responded saying the intellectual property was still controlled "very securely" by Scott and only manufacturing had moved to China. Mr McLauchlan pointed out Scott had been successful setting up in China where other New Zealand companies had tried and failed. Mr Kippenberger said meat companies in the US had underinvested in automation and that was where Scott could grow in that country.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 06, 2020 15:33 UTC