After Politics
Luxton did not seek re-election in the 2002 elections. More recently he was one of the founders of the Open Country Cheese Company and the Kaimai Cheese Company, located near Matamata, in the Waikato, along with former colleague Rt Hon Wyatt Creech.
He holds a number of directorships in the agribusiness sector including the Tatua Coop Dairy Company, having been a previous Chairman, and Wallace Corporation, and has farming interests and is currently chair of DairyNZ, the New Zealand Dairy Industry Good organisation which represents all New Zealand dairy farmers. He is married to Mary Scholtens, QC.
He was for a short period (2005-6) a director of listed investment and property company Blue Chip, Luxton resigned from that Board. Luxton has been appointed as a Co-Chair the Waikato River Authority and is a member of the New Zealand Constitutional Advisory Panel. He also sits on the board of the Royal New Zealand Ballet Company and Landcare Research, one of the Crown Research Institutes.
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