where he received 0.83% of the candidate vote. Business After leaving Parliament, Brill was appointed Wellington regional manager of Neil Cropper Ltd and General Manager Corporate Affairs for Wattie Industries Ltd (Watties). He then became chairman of Wattie International and Wattie Meat Activities Group. After Wattie merged with Goodman Group Ltd in 1987, he chaired the Diversified Activities Group of Goodman Fielder Wattie Ltd. During the 1980s, he was a director of NZSE-listed companies Waitaki International Ltd, Allflex Holdings Ltd, and Hawkes Bay Farmers Meat Co Ltd. He was also a director of the Martha Hill Gold Mine JV, Protech Engineering Ltd, Advanced Foods Ltd, Supercool Refrigeration Ltd, Agrico Developments Ltd, Amlamco Meats Ltd, Wattie Singapore Ltd, and Dynasty Foods (Thailand) Ltd. In 1989, Brill led a management buyout of Supercool Refrigeration Ltd and Hoverd Industries Ltd, which later acquired Contract Refrigeration Ltd (1991) and McAlpine Refrigeration Ltd (1993) and extended into Australia, Shanghai and Dubai. In 1999, Brill sold his controlling interest to USA-based Hussmann Corporation , now a subsidiary of Panasonic. The commercial refrigeration and air conditioning business continues to operate out of Auckland as McAlpine Hussmann Ltd. Brill is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors. He was national president of the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation 1988–91 and a director of the New Zealand Employers Federation and the Export Institute of New Zealand. He was president of the Employers & Manufacturers Association (EMA) in 1998-2001 and founding Vice-President of Business New Zealand in 2002–4. He was Group B chair of the New Zealand-Japan Business Association and an executive member of the Pacific Basin Economic Council. Brill was named in the National Business Review "Rich List" during 1997-99. Energy Interests While Associate Minister of Energy, Brill was Chairman of the New Zealand Gas Council _1979 - 1981), and was the Leader of the Gas Investment Mission to the United Kingdom in 1981. He was a director of Petrocorp (1982 - 1986). In 1990, Brill was appointed by the then Labour Government as a director of Waitemata Electric Power Board, New Zealand's second-largest electric utility, and was elected Chairman. After Waitemata Electricity was privatised, he was founder Chairman of Power New Zealand, which became the second-largest company (by capitalisation) on the New Zealand Exchange. He was also Chairman of Pacific Energy, the country's first and largest trader in the wholesale electricity market. Brill became national president of