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Shane Jones has warned of sovereign asset losses. Photo / File

BUSINESS

OIO changes must protect Kiwi assets from offshore sale - Jones

17 Jul, 2019 6:26pm
5 minutes to read

Shane Jones gives farmer governance a serve and warns of sovereign asset losses.

Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor agrees the OIO process around the Westland sale

BUSINESS

Westland farmer creditors call for action on OIO process

17 Jul, 2019 12:12pm
4 minutes to read

Westland farmer creditors owed up to $11 million still on warpath in sale countdown.

Urban dwellers in for a rough economic ride if agriculture is forced into ETS. Photo / Getty Images

BUSINESS

ETS for agriculture equals economic pain for cities

16 Jul, 2019 6:08pm
4 minutes to read

Urban dwellers in for a rough economic ride if agriculture is forced into ETS.

Only two directors got the support of more than 50 per cent of farmers last year. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Fonterra board loses power over director candidate choice

16 Jul, 2019 5:00am
3 minutes to read

New rules curb Fonterra board's room to interfere in farmer-director elections.

Commerce Minister Kris Faafoi. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Late invoice payments: does NZ Inc need an ethics code - or Govt measures?

14 Jul, 2019 4:00pm
3 minutes to read

Does New Zealand need a code of ethics on invoice payment times?

Mainfreight chairman Bruce Plested. Photo / Supplied

BUSINESS

Mainfreight chairman speaks out again on social inequality

10 Jul, 2019 2:05pm
3 minutes to read

Mainfreight chairman tackles social inequality again in annual report.

The Westland dairy co-operative will be sold to Chinese dairy giant Yili for $588 million. Photo / File.

BUSINESS

Minnow political party hits out at plans to sell Westland Dairy to Chinese firm

10 Jul, 2019 11:47am
3 minutes to read

Social Credit urges Govt to save Westland dairy company through the Reserve Bank.

Dairy farmers paid $66 million in levies last year, and there's much more to come. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Farmer levies $100m a year and counting

10 Jul, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Farmers estimated to have paid $1 billion in levies in past decade.

Fonterra's share and unit prices are recovering after a slump. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Fonterra share price perks up after tumble mystery

5 Jul, 2019 6:06pm
5 minutes to read

Fonterra's share price dive is probably because of a mix of factors.

Fonterra shares are 30 per cent lower than this time last year. Photo / File

BUSINESS

The big sink: Fonterra shares falling fast

4 Jul, 2019 6:34pm
6 minutes to read

What's going on with Fonterra's diving share price?

BUSINESS

Double blow to dairy co-op business model

4 Jul, 2019 6:18pm
4 minutes to read

Is the cooperative dairy company business model headed for the scrap heap?

Westland CEO Toni Brendish, who was paid more than $1 million last year, will receive $680,000 of the $1.6m cash bonus. Photo / Supplied

BUSINESS

Westland sale: Independent adviser kept in dark about $1.6m executive bonuses

3 Jul, 2019 6:43pm
4 minutes to read

Westland executive bonuses not mentioned to sale independent adviser Grant Samuel.

Westland chairman Pete Morrison. Photo / Supplied

BUSINESS

Westland dairy creditors have better prospects with Yili

3 Jul, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Westland dairy company creditors "safer" selling to China.

BUSINESS

Calls to stall Westland dairy company sale

2 Jul, 2019 6:40pm
3 minutes to read

Former Westland farmers owed money poised to throw spanner in sale to Chinese.

The deal is a major one for Rich Lister Murray Bolton, a former Brierley Investments and Skellerup chief executive.

BUSINESS

Kiwi's business sold to global giant for more than $1b

28 Jun, 2019 5:56pm
3 minutes to read

New Zealand payment solutions firm Transaction Services sells majority stake for $1b.

Eastcliffe Retirement Village in Ōrākei. Photo / Doug Sherring

BUSINESS

Displaced Eastcliffe Ōrākei village elderly take loss of homes to High Court

28 Jun, 2019 5:00am
5 minutes to read

One 91 year old woman has had to move three times.

Westland Milk facilities producing dairy. Photo/File.

BUSINESS

The money or the flag? Dairy farmers face dilemma

26 Jun, 2019 6:30pm
7 minutes to read

Westland dairy farmers toss up much-needed cash over local patriotism.

BUSINESS

Biggest killer of small business: Will it take legislation for them to get paid on time?

26 Jun, 2019 5:00am
6 minutes to read

Time to pay small business on time for the good of the whole economy.

Food Safety New Zealand says the country's high rates of campylobacter - attributed to broiler chickens - were heavily reduced by a safety strategy implemented in 2006 but the gains have since plateaued.

BUSINESS

Jump in chicken eating prompts new food safety testing probe

25 Jun, 2019 7:27am
4 minutes to read

Fresh look at campylobacter testing limits as Kiwis eat more chickens.

AgResearch senior scientist Dr Seth Laurenson helped create software that allows farmers to see what would happen to their properties after various changes were made. Photo / Alan Gibson

BUSINESS

Sports technology helps farmers see the future amid environmental change

17 Jun, 2019 5:00am
5 minutes to read

America's Cup visual technology comes to the Kiwi farm.

AgResearch senior scientist Dr Seth Laurenson. Photo / Alan Gibson

BUSINESS

Land use change goes hi-tech with Hyper Farm visualisation

17 Jun, 2019 5:00am
5 minutes to read

Initial computer tool attracts much interest at this year's Fieldays.

BUSINESS

Ireland offers Kiwi businesses door to EU markets

13 Jun, 2019 6:32pm
4 minutes to read

High-powered Irish trade mission keen to deepen business links with New Zealand.

This year's kiwifruit crop is the best tasting ever, Zespri says.

BUSINESS

New Zespri sales season off to a tasty start

13 Jun, 2019 3:17pm
3 minutes to read

Great kiwifruit growing conditions deliver best tasting fruit ever.

Construction of Open Country Dairy's plant in Wanganui.

BUSINESS

Open Country Dairy expands manufacturing again

12 Jun, 2019 12:33pm
Quick Read

Open Country Dairy to expand manufacturing again.

The average New Zealand dairy cow herd produces about 158,000kg of milksolids per season.

BUSINESS

New Fonterra fixed milk price debut close

9 Jun, 2019 2:56pm
2 minutes to read

Fonterra farmers await setting of new NZX Futures-linked fixed milk price.

Kiwi Kevin Dobbs, owner of Tokyo Euro in Japan.

BUSINESS

Accident-damaged Japanese import numbers on the rise

7 Jun, 2019 5:48pm
7 minutes to read

Kiwi car dealer in Japan worries about accident repaired cars heading for NZ.

Synlait Milk off to Supreme Court over Pokeno land dispute.

BUSINESS

Supreme Court next stop for Synlait over Pokeno land

7 Jun, 2019 2:05pm
4 minutes to read

Synlait takes fight to remove covenants from its new Pokeno site to the Supreme Court.

Fonterra chairman John Monaghan called on the Government to oblige all milk processors to publicly declare the average milk price they paid to farmers.

BUSINESS

Dairy industry law changes greeted with frustration, disappointment

6 Jun, 2019 7:00pm
4 minutes to read

New dairy industry law change proposals please few and anger many.

Operational costs for the eradication attempt at the end of May had reached $154 million. Photo / Mark Mitchell

BUSINESS

M.bovis cattle disease wipeout 'shambolic', farmers say

4 Jun, 2019 4:46pm
3 minutes to read

Confidence in Government effort wobbling.

One of Synlait's dairy factories. NZPA / Ross Setford

BUSINESS

$280m Pokeno factory may have run foul of housing hopes

4 Jun, 2019 5:00am
3 minutes to read

Synlait Milk's Pokeno plant neighbour and opponent has plans for housing.

Budget breathes new life and hope into national railroad.

BUSINESS

KiwiRail's heavy metal not the only part ageing

31 May, 2019 6:02pm
6 minutes to read

KiwiRail in the money thanks to Budget but faces a people shortage challenge.

Listed Synlait and Karl Ye's company New Zealand Industrial Park appear to be at a standoff.

BUSINESS

Synlait Milk's $280 million Pokeno headache

30 May, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Businessman trying to stop new factory at Pokeno is unlikely to back off or be bought off.

BUSINESS

Fonterra must stick to asset sale plan: Fitch Ratings

28 May, 2019 6:19pm
5 minutes to read

Fonterra essentially a good business, says credit rater Fitch.

Mainfreight delivers record annual result.

BUSINESS

Mainfreight share prices fattens again

28 May, 2019 6:10pm
4 minutes to read

Mainfreight share price jumps on strong annual result.

BUSINESS

'Please explain', Govt tells New Zealand's biggest farmer

25 May, 2019 8:30am
12 minutes to read

New Landcorp chairman Warren Parker has some explaining to do.

Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell said the cooperative is on track to share a new strategy in September. Photo / Dean Purcell.

BUSINESS

Financial ups and downs ahead for Fonterra

23 May, 2019 6:37pm
5 minutes to read

Good news and more bad news in Fonterra third quarter result, and more to come.

KiwiRail chairman Greg Miller (left), acting chief executive Todd Moyle, Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and Regional Development Minister Shane Jones. Photo / Tania Whyte.

BUSINESS

Will KiwiRail be a Budget winner?

23 May, 2019 11:00am
5 minutes to read

Northland is poorly served by both rail and road.

Kiwifruit bonanza year propels Zespri to record revenue.

BUSINESS

Zespri's global empire sets $3 billion revenue record

23 May, 2019 9:06am
2 minutes to read

Record revenue year for Zespri as sales and licence earnings hit $3 billion.

Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Fonterra cooperating with Chilean prosecutor

22 May, 2019 12:22pm
3 minutes to read

Chilean prosecutor narrows search for Fonterra files as its probe continues.

US food industry sounds alarm again over NZ-Japan trade deal.

BUSINESS

Clamour for Trump to fend off NZ-Japan dairy trade threat

17 May, 2019 8:05am
4 minutes to read

US food exporters again hammer NZ dairy threat from Japan trade deal.

Dairy industry leader Fonterra introduces new fixed milk price tool for its farmers.

BUSINESS

Fonterra introduces new fixed milk price scheme

15 May, 2019 3:00pm
4 minutes to read

New Fonterra fixed milk price scheme linked to NZX futures market.

There is expansion on the cards for the Waikato dairy industry. Photo/Getty Images.

BUSINESS

Open Country Dairy targets Waikato expansion

15 May, 2019 11:00am
3 minutes to read

The country's second biggest dairy manufacturer and exporter is upscaling.

Port of Tauranga chief executive Mark Cairns. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Competition, not co-operation, vital for ports, says Tauranga CEO

11 May, 2019 9:13am
8 minutes to read

Port of Tauranga CEO Mark Cairns speaks for first time on freight strategy review report.

The proposed Te Awa Lakes housing and recreation development at Hamilton's northern gateway. Photo / Supplied

BUSINESS

$1 billion plan: Housing development knocked back - but not knocked out

8 May, 2019 5:00am
3 minutes to read

Hamilton's Perry Group to forge on with the $1 billion Te Awa Lakes plan.

Fonterra CEO Miles Hurrell. Photo / Dean Purcell

BUSINESS

Chile prosecutor wants Fonterra CEO's files

4 May, 2019 8:10am
3 minutes to read

Chilean prosecutor wants Fonterra subsidiaries' computer files.

Transpower held to account for serious power outage in Waikato and Coromandel Peninsula.

BUSINESS

Formal complaint against Transpower for outage

3 May, 2019 5:41pm
3 minutes to read

Serious power cut in Waikato and Coromandel Peninsula provokes official action.

It's been alleged seven Soprole executives have refused to turn over their computers to the high complexity crimes unit of the prosecutor's office.

BUSINESS

Chilean prosecutor investigates Fonterra businesses

3 May, 2019 11:18am
5 minutes to read

Investigation into Fonterra businesses in Chile provoked by shareholder complaint.

There have always been plenty of opinions on how New Zealand's biggest company could be better run. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Time's up: Is this Fonterra's sink or swim moment?

2 May, 2019 5:58pm
16 minutes to read

It's time for some radical thinking, says Andrea Fox in part three of her series.

There's a strong economic case for Fonterra remaining a cooperative. Photo / 123RF

BUSINESS

Fonterra: Why its defenders want to keep the cooperative model

1 May, 2019 6:17pm
13 minutes to read

Should Fonterra remain a cooperative? Part II of our series examining NZ's biggest company

What's gone wrong for NZ dairy giant Fonterra? Photo / Getty Images

BUSINESS

Fonterra is a towering disappointment. Why?

30 Apr, 2019 6:05pm
17 minutes to read

Huge debt. Poor investments. How can Fonterra be making such a hash of things?

BUSINESS

Big Te Awa Lakes project faces long struggle with red tape

13 Apr, 2019 7:50am
4 minutes to read

A $1b housing and lakes recreation development in Hamilton back to drawing board.

Putaruru, one of the towns in the SWIFT trust's territory. Photo / Supplied B

HAMILTON NEWS

South Waikato Investment Fund Trust in the spotlight

12 Apr, 2019 2:02pm
7 minutes to read

The $20m community investment fund that got away from its creators.

DIRA review decisions, due out by mid-year, are keenly awaited by dairy heavyweight Fonterra.

BUSINESS

Turbulence in dairy industry makes DIRA decisions timely

9 Apr, 2019 10:22am
4 minutes to read

Dairy industry law review results will go to Cabinet within two months.

Putaruru, one of the towns in the Swift trust's territory. Photo / Supplied

BUSINESS

Reining in an investment fund trust board

6 Apr, 2019 5:00am
9 minutes to read

The $20 million community investment fund that got away from its creators.

Agriculture Minister Damien O'Connor. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Go there, SAFE tells live animal export market reviewers

5 Apr, 2019 1:47pm
4 minutes to read

Govt must go to check out animal welfare conditions in live export markets, says SAFE.

Westland Milk's third biggest shareholder to support sale of the cooperative.

BUSINESS

Dairy Holdings to vote for sale of Westland Milk to Yili

3 Apr, 2019 5:02am
3 minutes to read

Proposed Westland Milk sale to Chinese Yili gets tick from big shareholder.

Lifestyle block owners will get hammered for thousands of dollars by a capital gains tax, says one tax expert. Photo / 123RF

BUSINESS

Capital gains tax: A potential 'nightmare' for lifestyle block owners

28 Mar, 2019 5:00am
7 minutes to read

Accountants the big winners of an increasingly complex issue.

From left, Josef Naegel, Matthias Graf von Westphalen and Che Charteris. 08 March 2019 Daily Post photograph by Stephen Parker

BUSINESS

European investors eye billion trees project

28 Mar, 2019 5:00am
7 minutes to read

The billion trees project has attracted the eye of some deep-pocketed players.

BUSINESS

Capital Gains Tax: What it means for farmers

26 Mar, 2019 5:00am
7 minutes to read

A feature of farming is typically lower returns but high asset values.

Fonterra's China farms have been loss-making for at least five years.

BUSINESS

Cloud continues over Fonterra's China farms

24 Mar, 2019 1:42pm
4 minutes to read

Losses continue for Fonterra's China farms.

BUSINESS

Death throes of a dairy co-operative

22 Mar, 2019 5:00am
10 minutes to read

Westland Milk Products wanted to be independent. Now it looks set to be sold to China.

Westland Milk Products could be sold to Chinese milk company.

BUSINESS

Govt calls off $10m loan to Westland Milk following sale news

19 Mar, 2019 10:49am
Quick Read

Westland Milk Products proposed sale to Chinese company halts Govt loan.