OWENS TRANSPORT LIMITED

Shareholders of Owens Transport Limited

New Zealand publishes share allocations openly, so the shareholding of this company can be read directly from the register. The New Zealand Companies Office record for company number 167898547 shows a single shareholder: OWENS GROUP LIMITED, holding 4,570,000 ordinary shares, being 100% of the shares on issue. The shareholder record carries an information date of 12 August 2026. No other shareholder, and no partly paid or separate class of share, is recorded.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

The ownership chain runs from Owens Transport Limited to its sole shareholder Owens Group Limited (New Zealand), and from there into the Mainfreight group, terminating at Mainfreight Limited (New Zealand company number 102720), whose ordinary shares are quoted on the NZX Main Board. Note 11 (Investment in Subsidiary Companies) to Mainfreight Limited’s audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025 lists “Owens Transport Ltd”, country of incorporation New Zealand, principal activity Transport & Warehousing, at a group shareholding of 100.0% at both 31 March 2025 and 31 March 2024. Because that figure is the group’s effective interest held through its subsidiaries, the effective interest of Mainfreight Limited in this company is 100%.

The chain therefore ends in a listed company rather than in a natural person. Where a corporate chain terminates in an entity listed on a regulated exchange with dispersed shareholding, no individual is normally identifiable as holding more than 25% indirectly, and the customary KYB treatment is that the ultimate beneficial ownership requirement is satisfied by the listing itself: the file records the listed parent and the exchange (Mainfreight Limited, NZX) rather than naming an individual. Counterparties whose policy still requires a named natural person will normally record senior managing officials instead, and should document the listing exemption they are relying on.

Data availability

The 100% holding by Owens Group Limited is taken from the New Zealand Companies Office shareholder record for this company. The 100% effective interest of Mainfreight Limited is taken from that company’s audited financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025.

The intermediate step — which Mainfreight entity holds the shares in Owens Group Limited, and in what proportion — was not verified for this note. The New Zealand register interface at app.companiesoffice.govt.nz returned HTTP 500 errors on every attempt on 24 September 2026, so the Owens Group Limited record could not be opened, and no aggregated or auto-generated company profile was substituted for it. Mainfreight Limited does not publish a full legal-entity chart; note 11 lists principal subsidiaries only and does not name Owens Group Limited. An effective percentage for each individual link in the chain therefore cannot be calculated from published sources, although the top-to-bottom effective interest of 100% is confirmed by the audited accounts. New Zealand does not operate a public register of beneficial owners, so no beneficial-ownership declaration exists beyond the shareholder record above.

Directors and officers of Owens Transport Limited

The register record for this company contained two identical director entries for Donald Braid — the same role (Director), the same appointment date of 1 June 2006 and the same active status. These have been treated as a single directorship and deduplicated; the company has one recorded current director, not two.

Current director

• Donald Braid — Director, appointed 1 June 2006, currently in office. Nationality: not disclosed.

Mainfreight Limited’s 2025 annual report describes Don Braid as its Group Managing Director, appointed to the Mainfreight board in 2000 and with 31 years’ service at Mainfreight. That is a separate office at the listed parent and is noted only because it is consistent with the directorship recorded here; it does not form part of this company’s own officer record.

Former directors

• Rodger Herbert Fisher — Director, 10 March 1992 to 16 June 1999.
• Philip Pritchard — Director, 31 January 2001 to 29 July 2002.
• David Ritchie — Director, 29 July 2002 to 4 November 2003.

No company secretary or other non-director officer is recorded. New Zealand company law does not require a company secretary, so its absence is not a filing gap. Directors’ residential addresses, which the New Zealand register publishes, are not reproduced here, and no date of birth or national identification number is published or reproduced for any individual named above.

Recent officer changes

• 1 June 2006 — Donald Braid appointed as Director (still in office).
• 4 November 2003 — David Ritchie ceased to be a Director.
• 29 July 2002 — Philip Pritchard ceased to be a Director and David Ritchie was appointed on the same date.

Data availability

Officer details are taken from the New Zealand Companies Office record for company number 167898547, which publishes directors’ names, roles and appointment and cessation dates. The gap between November 2003 and June 2006 in the record reflects the register entries as held and was not independently explained by any filed document reviewed.

The current board could not be re-verified against the live register on 24 September 2026: app.companiesoffice.govt.nz returned HTTP 500 errors on repeated attempts, and no directory or aggregator source was used in its place. The officer data above therefore reflects the register record as captured, and any appointment or resignation filed after that capture would not appear here. Mainfreight Limited’s annual report does not publish a list of subsidiary company directors, so it could not be used to cross-check the board of this entity.

Group structure of Owens Transport Limited

Owens Transport Limited is a wholly owned operating subsidiary within the Mainfreight group. Its immediate parent is Owens Group Limited, which holds 100% of its shares; the ultimate parent is Mainfreight Limited, a New Zealand company listed on the NZX. The Mainfreight entities in Australia, Belgium and Canada shown below are fellow subsidiaries held elsewhere in the same group — they are not held by this company, which has no recorded subsidiaries or investments of its own.

Data availability

The immediate shareholding is taken from the New Zealand Companies Office shareholder record for company number 167898547. The ultimate parent relationship and the 100.0% group shareholdings for Owens Transport Ltd and for the Australian, Belgian and Canadian entities listed above are taken from note 11 (Investment in Subsidiary Companies) to Mainfreight Limited’s audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 March 2025, which states that the principal subsidiaries listed all have 31 March balance dates.

Two limitations apply. First, the intermediate link between Owens Group Limited and Mainfreight Limited is not itself set out in a published document: note 11 lists principal subsidiaries only and does not name Owens Group Limited, and the New Zealand register could not be queried on 24 September 2026 because app.companiesoffice.govt.nz returned HTTP 500 errors; no aggregator was substituted. The chain is therefore stated as verified at its two ends — a 100% holding by Owens Group Limited on the register, and a 100.0% effective group shareholding by Mainfreight Limited in the audited accounts — with the step between them unverified. Second, registration numbers for the Australian, Belgian and Canadian entities are drawn from the corporate linkage record held for this profile and were not re-confirmed against the Australian, Belgian or Canadian registers for this note; Mainfreight’s annual report names those entities but does not publish their registration numbers. Revenue and other financial figures published by Mainfreight Limited are group-level and are not attributable to Owens Transport Limited, which does not publish entity-level accounts.