Simon Henry

billion KiwiSaver fund says it will not invest in DGL after CEO's comments about Nadia Lim's appearance.

Henry has been approached for comment via DGL’s media contacts. She said it was “abysmal” that Henry had been critical of Lim on the basis of gender and race. “It really undermines the work that she has done and achieved.” McKinnon said it was particularlly concerned with the governance of DGL and would be unlikely to invest in the company until it had a new chief executive. Rich-lister and DGL chief executive Simon Henry told NBR that a photo of Lim in My Food Bag’s prospectus was “a little bit of Eurasian fluff”. He said she was “showing some cleavage” and showing off her sensuality to sell “scrip”. Kiwi Wealth chief executive Rhiannon McKinnon said it was in the process of adding DGL to its exclusions list in response to Henry’s “derogatory comments”.

He made derogatory comments about Lim's 'cleavage' and ethnicity. Now she's fired back.

The NBR published an article in May 2021 about Henry's alleged incessant communication with a female intern, who had asked him to stop. She went on to say she wants Henry to "open his mind" and "see the potential" that comes in all shapes, sizes and cultural backgrounds. Lim said the damaging element is that comments Henry made can be repeated so often that people start to believe it's true and "believe they are less capable and have less to give and contribute than their peers".

The chemical company has been added to Kiwi Wealth's list of businesses it won't invest in.

The verbal attack on My Food Bag ambassador Nadia Lim by a chemicals company chief executive is insulting to most retail and institutional investors as well ...

I mean, you know when you (sic) got a TV celebrity showing off her sensuality to hock scrip, then you know you're in trouble. The top has no buttons. Henry's comments have caused outrage and disgusted many in the business community.

It comes after DGL's Simon Henry made disparaging comments, reported on Tuesday, about the celebrity chef.

Having diversity in business opens doors to create and deliver to new groups, with engagement opportunities available where people feel represented.” "We know that investors make decisions based on a variety of factors, including financial performance, governance quality and (increasingly) environmental sustainability. I mean, you know, when you got a TV celebrity showing off her sensuality to hock script, then you know you’re in trouble. There were no buttons on the camisole. I don’t get it. “I don’t get it.

Nadia Lim has hit back at rich-lister Simon Henry's comments about her ethnicity saying it highlights the vile stigma many women of colour face in business.

The NBR published an article in May 2021 about Henry's alleged incessant communication with a female intern, who had asked him to stop. She went on to say she wants Henry to "open his mind" and "see the potential" that comes in all shapes, sizes and cultural backgrounds. Lim said the damaging element is that comments Henry made can be repeated so often that people start to believe it's true and "believe they are less capable and have less to give and contribute than their peers".

He said she was “showing some cleavage” and showing off her sensuality to sell “scrip”.

It says the board must include directors of different ages, ethnicities and backgrounds, and that diversity is a key strategic asset, and focus, of the company. She said it was “abysmal” that Henry had been critical of Lim on the basis of gender and race. McKinnon said it was particularly concerned with the governance of DGL and would be unlikely to invest in the company until it had a new chief executive. The comments flew in the face of NZSA’s policy on board composition, which included core thought and social diversity as a foundation for improving the quality of corporate governance in New Zealand, he said. Earlier on Thursday Kiwi Wealth chief executive Rhiannon McKinnon said it was in the process of adding DGL to its exclusions list in response to Henry’s “derogatory comments”. Rich-lister and DGL chief executive Simon Henry told NBR that a photo of Lim in My Food Bag’s prospectus was “a little bit of Eurasian fluff”. He said she was “showing some cleavage” and showing off her sensuality to sell “scrip”.

A storm is brewing in investment circles with blacklistings over comments made by DGL chief executive Simon Henry about My Food Bag's Nadia Lim.

"We were appalled like may others by the tone, the misogyny, and the racism in that comment, and it made us look again at DGL in terms of red flags around their governance processes, around ESG (environmental social and governance factors), and caused us to take it to our responsible investment committee.... Henry made derogatory comments about Lim, her appearance, and her role in the promotion of the food company's sharefloat last year. "We thought that a company with this... on the basis of the governance of the company. "We consider it improbable and insulting to the capabilities of New Zealand investors that any investor would make a significant financial decision based on a picture of a company's founder." "The views of Mr Henry in relation to Nadia Lim send a false message when it comes to entrepreneurship and corporate development in New Zealand."

You know by now I'm not one to join aboard the cancel culture train when someone says something deemed out of line, but I think that businessman Simon Henr.

One equity analyst told media that Henry’s one of the best CEO’s he’s met. But he’s wrong to suggest that it’s got anything to do with Nadia’s cleavage and ethnicity and sensuality. That does happen.

DGL boss Simon Henry is by his own description both an ugly and simple man. An estimation now widely shared across the Tasman, after the publication of his ...

The $1 billion DGL Group listed on the ASX this time last year and has quickly amassed a devoted following. "I don't get it," Henry continued, asking why anyone who liked a company would sell their shares as My Food Bag's early backers had. "I mean, I'm a simple man". With, it seems, a simple rule for board composition. Readers can draw their own conclusions about a man who describes a woman as "Eurasian fluff". (Lim certainly did when asked to respond by the NBR, suggesting it run an article on the five most chauvinistic people in New Zealand business. And you've already interviewed one!" DGL boss Simon Henry is by his own description both an ugly and simple man.

Kiwi business leaders are criticising DGL boss Simon Henry's comments about Nadia Lim, saying they are "deeply unacceptable". Henry, the founder and CEO of ...

Nadia Lim has hit back at rich-lister Simon Henry's comments about her ethnicity, saying it highlights the vile stigma many women of colour face in business ...

It shows Lim smiling and talking to friends as she turns a chicken on the barbeque. The picture Henry referred to shows Lim wearing a camisole and not an unbuttoned blouse. Today, Lim responded to Henry's controversial claims and comments, telling AM that while she can handle the backlash, she is concerned it may impact other Asian women in the business industry.

Masterchef winner and judge, co-founder of My Food Bag, creator of the lockdown TV cooking show, organic farmer - she's done and is doing a whole lot of things.

I don't think I've heard anyone refer to a woman as a "bit of fluff" since the 1990s. Lim said on social media: "I smiled at her and she smiled back at me and I actually felt a little bit emotional. But I know there will be others who think there's nothing wrong with what he said. He was quoted as saying she was "a TV celebrity showing off her sensuality". The top has no buttons. Here's what he had to say about the company's sharemarket prospectus document.

OPINION: Ben Kepes, company founder/director/mentor and middle-aged white man has some advice for others of his demographic.

What I'd love to see from Henry is a detailed critique of My Food Bag's business. If you value hearing the opinions of others, please consider becoming a Stuff supporter. My apparel industry experience leads me to suggest that she was wearing what I would class as a v-neck tee shirt. But I thought I might provide some additional guidance to other male titans of industry about what one should, and should not, say in these situations. On the one hand, I'm kind of loathe to write this article. These individuals, collectively self-proclaimed masters of the universe, feel that their business success removes any necessity for them to follow social norms.

No one had ever heard of boring chemical storage company DGL until this week. Now it's dominating the news cycle – and could yet force CEO Simon Henry to ...

We are going to engage with the CEO and board of DGL Group in relation to these comments.” In the coming days and weeks his business customers will decide whether that is a tenable course of action. Or whether the best way he can protect his own wealth is to properly discipline his CEO – that is, to sack himself. “Our sustainability process is to directly engage with a company to tackle these issues head on. If they view Henry and DGL as irretrievably tarnished, then they will see if they can find other partners to take care of their dangerous chemical transportation and storage needs. A broad generalisation is that B2C businesses tend to have values more closely correlated with society at large – or at least publicly state them, and be more vulnerable to outcry when they fail to live up to those values. Between these two stories there appears to be ample evidence that Henry is not a fit and proper person to run a listed company. I felt dirty, I felt tainted.” When the content of the emails was put to Henry, he told Hunter he thought she was “a nutter”. In it McNicol notes that his net worth, which Henry calculates as being around $600m at the time of the interview, escalated to $700m within the eight days between the interview and his writing it up. B2B firms are less vulnerable to consumer and employee pressure, as they tend to have a much lower public profile. This will drive an immediate reactive response, but there is a longer term and more profound danger in play. The very fact it chose to drop the “rich” from its name tells you something about the changing climate around business, though this seems to have evaded the notice of Henry, who spent almost the entire interview with Hamish McNicol clowning himself, including an excruciating passage where he calculates his fortune, based on DGL’s current share price.