COOPER AND COMPANY BRINGS ALL ITS ACTIVITIES TOGETHER UNDER THE SAME NAME
In April 2008 Bluewater Management Company, responsible for managing the Britomart development, was renamed Cooper and Company in line with a rebranding initiative by its parent company. Cooper Group Holdings, along with its US-based operating entities Cooper Capital Partners and Cooper & Stebbins, are now simply known as Cooper and Company. “We felt the time was right to bring all our activities in New Zealand and the US under one name,” said Peter Cooper, founder and Executive Chairman of Cooper and Company. “We bought out our partners in the Bluewater Consortium, which was formed to develop the Britomart project, in 2006, so there’s no longer any need for Bluewater as a separate entity here in New Zealand. “Our new identity reflects the fact that we’re all one company, united by a common set of values and goals and drawing on the same set of core skills across everything we do.” Cooper and Company is a private investment company with interests in real estate, renewable energy and finance in New Zealand and the US. It has three offices, in Newport, California, Southlake, Texas and Auckland, New Zealand. Cooper and Company’s principal investments in New Zealand are Britomart and Mountain Landing in the Bay of Islands. Its interests in the US include the Southlake Town Square development in Texas, the Calnetix Group of renewable energy companies and financial services companies RiskSpan and Dimensional.