Allan Hubbard (businessman), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Allan Hubbard (businessman)

New Zealand businessman

Date of Birth: 23-Mar-1928

Place of Birth: Dunedin, Otago Region, New Zealand

Date of Death: 02-Sep-2011

Profession: businessperson

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Allan James Hubbard, QSO (23 March 1928 – 2 September 2011) was a businessman who lived in Timaru in the South Island of New Zealand and was the founder of South Canterbury Finance, New Zealand's largest locally owned finance company.
In 2006, the New Zealand Listener described Hubbard as the most powerful businessman in the South Island.Hubbard was listed on the New Zealand Listener Power List from 2005 through to 2007 and he was listed on the Primary Sector Power list at number four in 2009.Hubbard had significant interests in dairy farming, irrigation systems, finance and helicopters.
He was one of three directors of Dairy Holdings Limited, which in 2007 owned 57 dairy units, and 10 grazing blocks in the South Island.
In the 2006–07 season Dairy Holdings Limited milked 44,000 cows on 16,120 hectares and produced 14.3 million kg of milksolids.Hubbard died as the result of an Oamaru car crash.
After being stabilised at Oamaru Hospital, he died in a short helicopter ride while being transferred from the hospital to Dunedin Hospital on 2 September 2011.
In February 2012, the Oamaru police charged a 40-year-old man with careless driving causing death and injury. The Mosgiel man was found guilty in August 2013.