Nadia Lim Simon Henry

2022 - 5 - 5

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Shareholder group slams Simon Henry attack on Nadia Lim (New Zealand Herald)

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.

KiwiSaver funds blacklist DGL over CEO's 'derogatory' Nadia Lim ... (Stuff.co.nz)

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”.

HDPA: Simon Henry would be wise to apologise for what he said ... (Newstalk ZB)

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's Simon Henry makes a boob of himself (The Australian Financial Review)

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.

Nadia Lim says rich-lister Simon Henry's 'Eurasian fluff' comments ... (Newshub)

During the interview, Henry hit out at the My Food Bag co-founder and celebrity chef, suggesting her looks were to blame for the company's disappointing entry ...

Kiwi Wealth CEO slams 'misogynistic rhetoric' from DGL boss (1 News)

It comes after Simon Henry made disparaging comments, reported on Tuesday, about New Zealand celebrity chef Nadia Lim.

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.