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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.

Westland Milk facilities producing dairy. Photo/File.

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.

Change continues at belt-tightening Fonterra .

BUSINESS

Fonterra brings jobs home as back-to-basics drive rolls on

18 Mar, 2019 4:07pm
4 minutes to read

Fonterra jobs come home as the big dairy exporter cuts its cloth.

Jobs lost and created in Fonterra revamp.

BUSINESS

Fonterra jobs go in shakeup but details under wraps

15 Mar, 2019 5:50pm
3 minutes to read

Fonterra shakeup creates redundancies and new jobs.

Red kiwifruit could be coming to a store near you. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Red kiwifruit to go on trial

13 Mar, 2019 6:00am
2 minutes to read

Red kiwifruit on limited sale as Zespri tests a new offering on consumers.

The new processing plant is expected to deliver $129m in sheep milk export products. Photo / 123RF

BUSINESS

Sheep milk plant expected to deliver $129m in products a year

12 Mar, 2019 11:47am
3 minutes to read

The new dryer will be operational by next February.

Farmers have been low-key in their response to a CGT. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Silence of the lambs: Why are farmers quiet on CGT?

9 Mar, 2019 8:00am
9 minutes to read

Farmers called it a "mangy dog", but so far they're quiet on capital gains tax threat.

This season's Bluff oyster harvest will be half the allowable catch.

BUSINESS

Start saving for this year's Bluff oyster treat, they're scarce

8 Mar, 2019 5:40pm
3 minutes to read

Bluff oysters will give the credit card a thrashing again but disease outlook brighter.

Miles Hurrell, a Kiwi and long time employee, has been appointed Fonterra chief executive on a permanent basis. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Hurrell 'best placed' to turn Fonterra around

5 Mar, 2019 6:39pm
4 minutes to read

Miles Hurrell has been helping steer NZ's biggest company out of stormy financial waters.

Fonterra's newly appointed CEO Miles Hurrell. Photo/File.

BUSINESS

Fonterra CEO's base salary revealed on permanent appointment

5 Mar, 2019 10:55am
5 minutes to read

Fonterra's Miles Hurrell has been appointed on a permanent basis.

Understanding what went on in the lead-up to Mainzeal's collapse was an enormous job for liquidators BDO and their lawyers. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Mainzeal postmortem: Reckless trading? It's not that hard to avoid

2 Mar, 2019 8:30am
10 minutes to read

Avoiding reckless trading isn't director rocket science.

New Zealand fresh salmon gets through Chinese border again.

NZ fresh salmon clears China border again

26 Feb, 2019 1:00pm
2 minutes to read

New Zealand fresh salmon clears Chinese border, easing fears of trade blacklist.

Tourism Holdings CEO Grant Webster. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Tourism Holdings positive about tourism prospects for NZ

26 Feb, 2019 12:36pm
4 minutes to read

Tourism Holdings posts record EBIT result but eases full year forecast.

Kiwifruit export sales move closer to $4.5 billion target after bumper 2018 year.

BUSINESS

Kiwifruit eyes another bumper global export sales result

24 Feb, 2019 7:00pm
3 minutes to read

Kiwifruit export juggernaut rolls on as latest Zespri sales close in on earnings target.

Red flag goes up in capital gains tax proposals for lifestyle properties.

BUSINESS

Capital gains tax alert for lifestyle property owners

23 Feb, 2019 9:20am
5 minutes to read

The good life idea sours with the capital gain tax proposal for lifestyle properties.

Plenty to chew over in latest electricity pricing reform ideas, says industry.

BUSINESS

New ideas for electricity price reform cheered - so far

23 Feb, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Latest electricity reform ideas take some digesting, but mostly welcomed by sector.

Proposing a windfarm is not for the fainthearted, Kaimai Ranges planners are learning. Photo / File

BUSINESS

Windfarm plan sparks community storm

22 Feb, 2019 5:00am
5 minutes to read

Proposing a windfarm is not for the fainthearted, Kaimai Ranges planners are learning.

The hotel and conference centre at Hamilton's increasingly busy airport is to get a major facelift.

BUSINESS

Hamilton airport hotel revamp to cost up to $5 million

19 Feb, 2019 12:55pm
2 minutes to read

Hamilton airport hotel is getting a multi-million dollar new look.

All eyes next on Port of Tauranga capital management plans.

BUSINESS

Will this year's Port of Tauranga special dividend be the last?

19 Feb, 2019 10:48am
3 minutes to read

Market keen to hear Port of Tauranga's intentions for future dividend policy.

The Port of Tauranga has posted a half-year profit. Photo/Supplied.

BUSINESS

Port of Tauranga half-year trade and profit up

18 Feb, 2019 8:36am
3 minutes to read

Port of Tauranga posts strong first half year cargo growth.

Wages wait for stood-down Nelson forestry crews should be short, but fire damage cost for forest owners years off.

BUSINESS

Good and bad news for Nelson fires forestry sector

13 Feb, 2019 3:28pm
3 minutes to read

Short wait for stood-down forest workers in Nelson fires but costs years off for owners.

The Nelson fire is costing the forestry department millions. Photo/File.

BUSINESS

Nelson fire fallout costs forestry industry $2m per day

13 Feb, 2019 10:36am
3 minutes to read

Nelson economy and hundreds of forestry and sawmill workers hit hard by Nelson fire ban.

An artist's impression of the Tainui Group Holdings development at Ruakura. Photo / Supplied

BUSINESS

Ruakura inland port jigsaw puzzle coming together, slowly

9 Feb, 2019 5:00am
9 minutes to read

Finish time for giant Ruakura distribution and industrial precinct is accelerating.

John Wilson was a New Zealand champion, his huge funeral service told.

BUSINESS

John Wilson funeral a celebration of a life lived to the full

3 Feb, 2019 10:01am
4 minutes to read

John Wilson lived his life with principle, honesty and huge zest, his funeral hears.

By the time it was sold, ProTem had 320 large shed chicken-raising operations in Australia, and supplied 68 million birds a year to the country's biggest chicken processor. Photo / 123RF

BUSINESS

$60m bonanza for small-town investors

2 Feb, 2019 5:00am
7 minutes to read

Kiwi entrepreneur turns chicken business into an attractive payout.

New Zealand trade deals continue to make US dairy exporters nervous.

BUSINESS

US dairy exporters nervous about trade deals with Japan

1 Feb, 2019 3:56pm
3 minutes to read

US dairy exporters' nerves about rivals' new trade deals inflamed by new in-house report.

Fonterra mourns the death of former chairman John Wilson.

BUSINESS

Former Fonterra chairman's death a big loss to dairying

29 Jan, 2019 9:34am
3 minutes to read

Strong-willed and direct, John Wilson sacrificed much for the good of the dairy industry.

Synlait Milk chairman Graeme Milne. Photo / Christine Cornege

BUSINESS

Synlait: From U-turn to sharemarket sweetheart

26 Jan, 2019 5:00am
11 minutes to read

Dairy company has made success look easy. But behind the scenes, it hasn't been so simple.

Westland Milk Products chief executive Toni Brendish.

BUSINESS

Westland dairy company taxpayer loan terms still secret

23 Jan, 2019 5:00am
5 minutes to read

Commercial terms of Government loan to Westland dairy company still secret.

BUSINESS

Change at top of Goodman Fielder NZ

21 Jan, 2019 8:20am
Quick Read

Managing director Tim Deane has resigned.

Just Water founder and philanthropist Tony Falkenstein. Photo / Supplied

BUSINESS

Falkenstein donates $500,000 to university business school

16 Jan, 2019 10:05am
Quick Read

Waikato University management school gets an unprecedented donation.

Pamu leases about 12,500ha of the Wairakei estate.

BUSINESS

Rich Listers fail to keep Waikato land use out of public eye

16 Jan, 2019 5:00am
4 minutes to read

Big business attempt to change land use to dairying out of public eye stymied.

A TRT-made tipper body mounted on a manned military vehicle for the Australian Defence Force. Photo / Supplied

BUSINESS

Waikato's TRT design engineers show the way in Australia

10 Jan, 2019 3:34pm
4 minutes to read

Waikato heavy transport engineering company TRT is on a growth roll.

US dairy exporters see New Zealand's CPTPP trade deal as a warning.

BUSINESS

US dairy sector wary of NZ's latest trade deal success

9 Jan, 2019 2:30pm
4 minutes to read

US urged to rev up its trade deals pursuit in wake of NZ dairy trade deal success.

The colour project began as a result of interest from Asia for brightly-coloured wood.

BUSINESS

Bright outlook for radiata pine earnings

7 Jan, 2019 5:00am
3 minutes to read

Built-in colour could be the next big export and interior decor thing for New Zealand.

Monaghan says there's no room for emotion when it comes to the sale of Tip Top. Photo/File

BUSINESS

Fonterra boss wants to strip the gloss off the business

5 Jan, 2019 6:00am
10 minutes to read

Fonterra chairman John Monaghan opens up to the Herald.

BUSINESS

Fonterra boss wants to strip the gloss off the business

5 Jan, 2019 6:00am
10 minutes to read

Chairman John Monaghan wants to get the beleaguered co-operative back on track.