Alpe joins CER Group board

Maui Campervans founder Chris Alpe is joining the board of publicly listed CER Group, which operates Certified Organics and direct marketing company New Zealand Nature.

Alpe is chairman of the Auckland Festival Trust and a director of Canterbury of NZ, I-Cap and AJ Hackett. He had also been chairman of Tasman Agriculture and Espace Clothing.

In the early 1980s he founded Maui, becoming an executive director of Tourism Holdings when it bought his business.