Headquartered in Hamilton, with more than 1,300 employees in 15 countries and selling to nearly 160, Gallagher Group is one of Aotearoa’s largest privately held companies. Ask the average New Zealander about it and they might mention the electric fence famously invented by its founder Bill Gallagher in the late 1930s.
Gallagher Animal Management still does fencing (electric and virtual), along with a range of other on-farm tech solutions around farm management, animal health and water monitoring, but some Kiwis may not be aware there’s also Gallagher Security, a security systems specialist that accounts for about half of