RETAIL FOCUS GROUP LIMITED

Shareholders of Retail Focus Group Limited

The New Zealand Companies Register records 120 ordinary shares in issue, held in two equal allocations of 60 shares each — an exact 50/50 joint venture between two New Zealand companies.

• Meertens Holdings Limited — 60 of 120 ordinary shares (50.00%). NZ company number 2497388, NZBN 9429031521475, incorporated 24 May 2010, register status Registered.
• Retail Focus Limited — 60 of 120 ordinary shares (50.00%). NZ company number 1104852, NZBN 9429037061975, incorporated 14 December 2000, register status Registered.

The register displays both current allocations without a start date. The last recorded change to the share register was the cessation of three individual shareholders — Catherine Margret Mallon, Kieren Mallon and Lynda Moore — on 1 October 2013, six months after Kieren Mallon ceased to be a director. The two-company 50/50 structure has therefore been in place since at least 1 October 2013. The shareholding record was last updated on 13 August 2025, the date of the most recent annual return.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

Both holders are themselves New Zealand registered companies and each can be traced one step further on the same register.

• Retail Focus Limited (1104852) is wholly owned by Michael Parkinson, who holds all 100 of its shares and is its sole director, appointed 14 December 2000. His indirect interest in Retail Focus Group Limited is 50.00%.
• Meertens Holdings Limited (2497388) has 100 shares held by two individuals: Jacobus Meertens with 75 shares (75.00%) and Phatchatheeya Khruakhuanphet with 25 shares (25.00%). Jacobus Meertens is its sole director. The corresponding indirect interests in Retail Focus Group Limited are 37.50% and 12.50%.

Measured against a 25% threshold, two beneficial owners are identified: Michael Parkinson at 50.00% indirect and Jacobus Meertens at 37.50% indirect. Phatchatheeya Khruakhuanphet falls below the threshold at 12.50% indirect. Nationality is not disclosed for any of them; the New Zealand register does not record the nationality of shareholders or directors.

The KYB conclusion is that no single party controls this company. On a 50/50 split neither shareholder can pass an ordinary resolution or appoint the board alone, and the register records no shareholders’ agreement, casting vote or special share that would break a deadlock — such agreements are private in New Zealand and are not filed. The company should be treated as jointly controlled by the Parkinson side and the Meertens side rather than as controlled by either.

Data availability

New Zealand has no public register of beneficial owners. The ownership set out above is derived by tracing legal shareholdings through the Companies Register, which is free, complete and current for legal ownership but does not identify nominees, trustees or persons holding shares for others. Shares held through a trustee would appear under the trustee’s name only; the register shows that Retail Focus Limited used corporate trustee shareholders historically (SH Trustee Services (Focus) Ltd, ceased 2 February 2018; BSA Trustee Company Limited, ceased 25 July 2016), though none is in place now. Percentages are share counts; the register does not publish class rights or voting arrangements. The shareholder data held on this page names both holders correctly but carries no company numbers for them — the numbers above were read from the register on 24 September 2026.

Directors and officers of Retail Focus Group Limited

The New Zealand Companies Register records two current directors, both appointed on 24 June 2010, the date of incorporation. No other officer role is registered; New Zealand does not register company secretaries.

• Jack Meertens — Director, appointed 24 June 2010, in office. Recorded in Hillcrest, Auckland. Nationality: not disclosed.
• Michael Parkinson — Director, appointed 24 June 2010, in office. Recorded in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Nationality: not disclosed.

Duplicate record. The source data behind this page lists Michael Parkinson twice, once as “Michael Parkinson” and once as “Michael PARKINSON”, both as an active director appointed 24 June 2010. The register shows a single director of that name. This is one row duplicated by inconsistent capitalisation in the feed, not two people: the board is two directors, not three.

Both directors are recorded at New Zealand addresses, which meets section 10 of the Companies Act 1993 — every New Zealand company must have at least one director who lives in New Zealand, or who lives in Australia and is a director of a company registered in Australia.

Both directors are connected to the shareholders. Michael Parkinson is the sole shareholder and sole director of Retail Focus Limited, one of the two 50% holders. The sole director of the other 50% holder, Meertens Holdings Limited, is recorded as Jacobus Meertens in the same Auckland locality as this company’s director Jack Meertens; “Jack” is a usual short form of Jacobus and the register gives no indication of two people, but the register does not assign persistent identifiers to individuals, so that identification is an inference rather than a confirmed link.

Recent officer changes

• 31 March 2013 — Kieren Mallon ceased to be a director, having been appointed on 24 June 2010 (recorded as resigned).

That is the only officer change on the register. The board has been unchanged for more than thirteen years.

Data availability

The New Zealand Companies Register publishes director names, appointment and cessation dates and residential addresses free of charge, and is the source for everything above. Residential addresses are withheld here as a matter of privacy practice; only the locality is shown. The register does not publish dates of birth. Directors’ interests registers and consents to act beyond the registered particulars are held by the company and are not public, and no disqualification, restriction or adverse entry appears against this company’s officer record. The officer data held on this page matches the register apart from the duplicated Michael Parkinson row noted above.

Group structure of Retail Focus Group Limited

This is a two-parent joint venture with no recorded subsidiary. Both parents and the subject company are New Zealand registered companies in good standing on the register.

Data availability

Identifier type substituted in the record. The group data held for this page carries no NZ company numbers at all. The values shown as registration numbers for both entities in the tree — 9429031521475 for Meertens Holdings Limited and 9429031515696 for Retail Focus Group Limited — are New Zealand Business Numbers, not company numbers; every NZBN begins 942903. The NZ company numbers are 2497388 and 2501568 respectively, and both identifier types are given in the table above so that either can be used for verification.

Missing parent. The group tree held on file shows only Meertens Holdings Limited above this company. Retail Focus Limited, which holds the other 50%, is absent. In a 50/50 structure that is a material gap rather than a detail: a tree showing one parent implies a controlling owner, whereas the register shows two equal owners and therefore no single controller. Retail Focus Limited is included in the table above.

Entities below. The New Zealand register does not offer a public reverse lookup of the companies in which a given company holds shares, so subsidiaries cannot be enumerated exhaustively. No subsidiary, branch or overseas registration is recorded for Retail Focus Group Limited in the source data or in its own register record, and the company is not recorded as a shareholder of any other entity found during this review.

Australian entity. The LinkedIn identifier held on file, retail-focus-pty-ltd, uses the Australian “Pty Ltd” form. This traces to the company’s own former New Zealand name, Retail Focus Proprietary Limited, used from 24 June 2010 to 21 October 2013, and not to a separate Australian company. No Australian entity is part of this structure and none has been included.

All register data was read from app.companiesoffice.govt.nz on 24 September 2026. New Zealand publishes company, shareholding and director data free of charge; it publishes no beneficial-ownership register and, for this company, no financial statements.