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Terrie Lloyd is a Tokyo-based New Zealand and Australian dual national who claims to have started 27 companies in Japan. He came to Japan in 1983 and set up a successful outsourcing business that was sold to EDS. He started a technology magazine, called Japan Inc, which failed. In 2007, he bought Metropolis magazine from its founders, Mark & Mary Devlin, but reneged on paying them for it. He has since engaged in multiple frauds to hide his assets from the Devlins.

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Oct 2012

“Relinquishes control” of Metropolis

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Metropolis magazine is taken over by Japan Partnership KK. According to a later interview, Lloyd says he “relinquished control” over his interests in Metropolis’s printed edition in October 2012, and while the same management team publishes the paper magazine, he is no longer the publisher.

However, an investigation by Mark & Mary Devlin, the previous owners of Metropolis, reveals that Japan Partnership KK is not an independent company, but was in fact bought by Lloyd from its previous owners, Richard and Lucy Marshall.

Lucy and I sold our in-active company to Terrie late last year. We have no involvement in any of the matters you are suggesting.

Thanks, Richard Marshall Director

The Devlins find out that the main shareholder of Metropolis is David Wells, Lloyd’s business partner in Hong Kong. Lloyd continues to control the company through Wells, Neil Butler his COO, and Frank Kasala, a CEO who has no experience in publishing, and who no-one in the Metropolis office has ever met. Even though Lloyd says he is no longer the owner of the business, in December 2012 — after he has supposedly relinquished control — he still actively solicits investment for the magazine.

Sep 2010

Lloyd does not pay for Metropolis

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Lloyd reneges on the final payment for Metropolis. The Devlins find out that Lloyd and his wife Kumiko have cheated them out of collateral property by secretly remortgaging the property to Shinsei Bank, just two weeks after he buys the magazine from them. Lloyd refuses to make any settlement and, over the next three years, engages in multiple frauds to hide his assets. The Devlins pursue civil and criminal actions.

12 Oct, 2009

New Zealand Herald interview

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In an interview for The New Zealand Herald, Lloyd talks about working in Tokyo, while his family stays in New Zealand. He spends a week each month with his family near Kerikeri. He also talks about losing almost losing his ‘fortune’ in the dot-com bust of 2000.

It was a pretty ugly time. Even my wife told me to go and get a proper job. That was probably my low point.

Sep 2007

Metropolis sale

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After publishing over 700 issues, the Devlins sell Metropolis to Lloyd, a New Zealand and Australian dual national, based in Japan. Over 14 years the magazine has grown to over 80 full-color pages every week made by a team of 35 staff from all over the world. The magazine has annual sales of ¥360 million and 20% profit, from hundreds of display and commercial classified advertisers and is, by far, Japan’s No 1 English magazine. A brief history of Metropolis is here.

1996

Establishes Linc Media

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Establishes LINC Media, a systems integration and incubation company. By 2008 the company has annual revenue of US$15 million and 140 employees. Lloyd says he runs his companies with two mottos:

Make a profit, and have mutual respect.

1983

Moves to Japan

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Arrives in Japan on a working holiday visa. Soon after, with his wife, he establishes his first company, LINC Japan Ltd., to provide translation and copywriting services.

1958

Born

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Born in Helensville, New Zealand, and raised in Tauranga.