WHAT HAVE WE JUST WITNESSED? 🤯
Sabastian Sawe has just become the first person in history to run a sub two-hour marathon in race conditions.
Yomif Kejelcha was also under two hours for second!
JUST IN: $RKLB has secured a contract worth up to $805M to deliver 18 satellites for the SDA Tracking Layer Tranche 3 program. 🔥
If fully awarded, this would be the largest contract in the company’s history.
A great moment to reflect on a big year for our global ZURU teams (with our NZ team pictured here at last week’s Christmas party)
I’m incredibly proud of the collective effort to navigate tariff-gate while still delivering strong top- and bottom-line growth, closing in on $4B in group sales, and setting ourselves up for another 25–30%+ growth year heading into 2026.
Some standout highlights from the year:
•First company ever to win Consumerables Supplier of the Year at both Walmart and Target US in the same year
•Additional wins for Price Excellence and Demand Generation
•Multiple Supplier of the Year awards including Boots, Superdrug and Toys R Us.
•Alongside many other awards across our verticals, including NZ Marketing Team of the Year and 36 global awards won by our Beauty team and countless Toys awards from TOTYs to dream toys.
Every vertical delivered impressive growth:
•Toys: +12%
•Beauty: +80%
•Baby: +50%
•Pet +50%
Highlights included topping multiple catergories we play in in Circana - to many to list! We were near the top in the US for driving shopper penetration with half of all US house holds buying a ZURU product in the past 52 weeks.
ZURU Tech made major progress toward commercialisation in 2026, with key milestones achieved across housing and automation.
Our Property & Logistics teams continued to scale our global footprint:
•10 new offices and showrooms opened globally
•250,000 sq ft of new showroom space added
•7 new warehouses onboarded
•5M+ sq ft of warehouse capacity now operating across North America, Europe, and Australasia
On the digital and marketing front, our teams delivered:
•20B+ impressions
•2,000+ campaigns
•40,000+ pieces of content
On product and innovation, we continue to move at speed.
It’s not the big that eat the small, it’s the fast that eat the slow and that mindset remains core to how we build. Creative is one of our superpowers, and our teams continue to deliver, with the pipeline looking stronger than ever.
Our factory automation and engineering teams continue to get better and better. Some of what they are delivering as we scale production and drive efficiency is genuinely hard to comprehend.
Our talent continues to strengthen across the business, with record graduate and intern applications across our centres of excellence (60,000+ applications). Just as importantly, our teams participated in dozens of charity initiatives worldwide, supporting the communities in which we operate.
I want to sincerely thank our entire team it’s your passion, relentless effort, bias for action, hustle, and execution that makes us great.
And to our partners and customers thank you for your continued trust and support. We win together, and we deliver for consumers together.
Huge thank you to everyone across ZURU for an outstanding year.
Enjoy the Christmas break we’re only just getting started. 💪💪💪💪💪
$ASTS 🚨 AST SpaceMobile is officially coordinating with NASA and the U.S. Air Force on its satellite spectrum.
You don’t get that kind of involvement unless you’re building something big.
This isn’t just another space company it’s turning into critical U.S. infrastructure.
The stars of this Giro d’Italia take center stage at the Teams Presentation: from tomorrow, it gets serious 💥
Le stelle di questo Giro d’Italia sotto i riflettori per la Teams Presentation: da domani si fa sul serio 💥
#GirodItalia
Absolutely mental 🤯 Kiwi 15 y/o Sam Ruthe (right of picture) just broke another world record—this time becoming youngest sub-4 minute miler!
@WorldAthletics@tempojournal