{"id":85681,"date":"1999-12-31T00:28:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/stretch-out-as-aapt-restructures\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:28:00","slug":"stretch-out-as-aapt-restructures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/stretch-out-as-aapt-restructures\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretch Out As AAPT Restructures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom New Zealand, so far unable to off-load its troubled Australian operations, AAPT, has moved to restructure the organisation resulting in the departure of local Chief Executive Jon Stretch.<\/p>\n<p>He will leave the group at the end of this month and the business will be split into two divisions based on customer segmentation.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>The restructure will see consumer and SMB business in one division with <st1_City w_st=\"on\"><st1_place w_st=\"on\">Enterprise business making up the other. 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