Ryman Healthcare posted a 24pc gain in annual profit to $241.9m as the value of its properties increased and revenue rose.

Ryman Healthcare has the green light for a $100 million Pukekohe retirement village for about 400 people south of Auckland.

Neighbours have failed to stop Ryman Healthcare getting consent for a $100 million-plus village between Greenlane and One Tree Hill.

New Zealand shares rose yesterday, heading back towards a record high after a two-day slide.

An excellent communicator albeit with a quietly confident manner, highly successful but without any arrogance, an affinity with those moving into quiet retirement but with a love of hard-rocking Shihad - Ryman Healthcare boss Simon Challies.

A neighbour is opposing a new Auckland Ryman Healthcare village, saying views will be blocked and roads jammed with traffic when hundreds of elderly people move in.

Simon Challies masters the detail and has "devoted himself to this company for a long, long time with great results for Ryman Healthcare."

Simon Challies of retirement village operator Ryman Healthcare has been named executive of the year and Air New Zealand company of the year at the Deloitte Top 200 Awards.

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Tropicana, one of the biggest privately owned blocks of land in inner Auckland, has been sold to retirement giant Ryman Healthcare.

Ryman Healthcare, the country's biggest listed retirement village operator and developer, has bought land in Wellington which it plans to turn into a boutique village.

Ryman Healthcare has secured a site for its second retirement village in Melbourne, which it expects to spend more than $100 million to build.

NZ shares were mixed yesterday as investors cast forward to next month's earnings season, and as regional markets mulled this week's Federal Reserve meeting.

Earnings from NZ's biggest listed retirement village specialist, will rise phenomenally as it builds new accommodation, an expert has forecast.

Simon Challies is an innovative thinker whose time at the helm of Ryman Healthcare has been critical to the firm's success, says David Kerr, chairman of the retirement village operator.