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Export award, 1972

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Export award, 1972

As part of the government’s drive to increase exports, it set up annual awards for successful businesses. In 1972 Macdonald Holdings was an export award winner. The company had started as Industrial Metals in the early 1950s, when it was involved in recycling scrap of all kinds: ‘We would export anything in those days, anything we could get our hands on,’ company director R. C. Macdonald recalled in 1972.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

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Megan Cook, Government and industrial development – Intervention, 1960s and 1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25863/export-award-1972 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 23 February 2010.