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Simon Henry

Millionaire and CEO of a chemical company, Simon Henry made a stupid comment about My Food Bag founder Nadia Lim recently. 

Last month, Henry, founder and CEO of a chemicals company, criticised My Food Bag for including a photo of Lim in their prospectus, claiming her "Eurasian fluff" was the reason for the company's underperforming results since entering the market.

- NZ Herald

 

The photograph that got Simon Henry hot under the collar (and hot under his pants apparently)

Lim, of Chinese descent was outraged, not just for herself, but for young New Zealand women who happen to be of Chinese or other Asian descent and that racist and sexist comments like that are designed to suppress them.

Henry also said: 

"I can tell you, and you can quote me, when you've got Nadia Lim, when you've got a little bit of Eurasian fluff in the middle of your prospectus with a blouse unbuttoned showing some cleavage, and that's what it takes to sell your scrip, then you know you're in trouble."

The fool Henry has apparently apologised but not before his company has had a battering as a result. Here's one example:

 DGL has been put on Kiwi Wealth’s investment exemption list after offensive comments its CEO Simon Henry made about My Food Bag founder Nadia Lim. In short, that means customers of investment company Kiwi Wealth will be barred from putting their money into the chemicals manufacturer.

          - The Spinoff 

I guess money doesn't make you smarter.