News Articles for Ken MacKenzie

Eminent company director Michael Chaney is coming to the end of his career, with Wesfarmers naming its next chair and a likely successor emerging at Northern Star Resources.

Two ex-bank bosses have taken up key roles with Fortescue and BHP, with the Big Australian appointing former National Australia Bank chief Ross McEwan as its new chairman.

BHP is poised to substantially increase its exposure to copper and nickel after the board of takeover target OZ Minerals backed an increased offer.

BHP leaders have braced shareholders for a ‘complex' short-term horizon and issued an apology to those who have experienced damaging behaviour at its work sites, during an AGM in Perth today.

BHP has defended its climate strategy despite involvement in Woodside's contended Scarborough LNG project, which has been subject to increasing environmental campaigns.

BHP is reshaping its business and corporate structure, with the company selling its petroleum division, making a big investment in potash and ending its dual-listed structure.

BHP chief executive Andrew Mackenzie will retire as boss of the world's biggest miner at the end of 2019, when insider Mike Henry will take the reins.

BHP shareholders are poised to reject a motion urging the world's biggest listed miner to suspend membership of some industry bodies judged to be at odds with goals to tackle climate change.

New BHP Billiton chairman Ken MacKenzie has backed his chief executive's performance and cautioned activist shareholders that the board will ultimately determine the company's direction.

Wesfarmers managing director Richard Goyder landed a $12.1 million pay packet in his final full year in charge of the Coles and Bunnings operator, while BHP Billiton chief executive Andrew Mackenzie also lifted his total income, but he remained a long way short of the Perth businessman.

BHP Billiton's chairman-elect Ken MacKenzie's top priority will be to meet as many shareholders as possible, when he takes the reins in September.