• He survived three plane crashes and was one of the last people to leave the Wahine when it sank in Wellington Harbour?
• Phil Lough and his wife Christine smuggled their baby daughter out of Iran hidden under heavy coats after the 1979 revolution?
• The first Russian tractors to arrive in New Zealand as part of a trade deal with Russia required a ladder to get up into the driver’s seat?
• Singapore general manager Ong Poh Seng persuaded the Dairy Board not to use the Anchor brand in his home country as it was the leading beer which the Muslim population didn’t drink?
• John Roadley, who was later to be GlobalCo chairman, applied six hundredweight of superphosphate to the acre to his new farm near Ashburton, causing so much grass growth the irrigation race controller was accused of favouring him and his wife Lois with water?
• On a chartered flight from Christchurch to Queenstown visitors from the Altai region of Central Asia saw the massive sell-off of machinery from the Waitaki hydro electric scheme. Bruce Gaffikin got the pilot to land nearby and a package was put together for them to buy the bulldozers and hire staff to commission and service them as well as teach the locals how to operate them?
• Until the Bay Milk Products Edgecumbe plant was rebuilt two years after the 1987 earthquake the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company processed 75% of its suppliers’ milk?
• The NZ Dairy Group’s operations manager Ross Townshend coined the phrase “turnsies and fairsies” for the Dairy Board practice of sharing out product mix amongst the different dairy companies?
• Kiwi chairman the late John Young stood down because he didn’t want to be in the way of the dairy industry coming together?
• It took Kiwi chief executive Craig Norgate an hour to write an email in 2000 to John Spencer, the acting chief executive of Dairy Group, suggesting they merge. Spencer wrote back two words, “I agree”?
• The second front runner for the name of GlobalCo was Annilac – but it was already trademarked by a small Canadian company?
