Fran O'Sullivan: 'Fonterra first' puts rest outside the loop
Wellington Beltway denizens often refer to MFAT as standing for the Ministry for Fonterra and other Trade.
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Fonterra aims for baby milk boost
A partnership with Beingmate Baby & Child could begin boosting Fonterra's branded infant formula sales in China this year.
Josie Pagani: Govt silence on 1080 risk appalling
The decision to refuse to tell parents what they knew or that they were opting to take a lunatic at his word that the poisoning wouldn't begin until the end of March, was despicable, writes Josie Pagani.
Meat industry report backs co-op model
A report into New Zealand's meat industry has come out heavily in favour of a single co-operative business model similar to Fonterra's to deal with decades-old issues of overcapacity and too much....
Focus on auction after 1080 furore
Market sentiment at tomorrow's GlobalDairyTrade auction will be tested following the revelations last week of a threat to the food safety of New Zealand infant formula, says ANZ.
Fletcher Building drives index higher
New Zealand shares rose yesterday, paced by Fletcher Building, as investors were drawn to firms that have under-performed the benchmark index.
Fonterra's $750m China deal
Dairy giant Fonterra will purchase an 18.8 per cent stake in Chinese infant formula maker Beingmate Baby & Child, slightly less than the 20 per cent shareholding it was aiming for.
Liam Dann: Plenty of practice with dairy safety issues
This time, with the threat made by some nasty individual to poison baby formula with 1080, it certainly seems like Government and industry efforts have been much better co-ordinated.
1080 threat: Dairy firms reassure
Dairy companies are confident security measures at their facilities are tight enough to prevent a 1080 contamination.
Dairy threat weighs heavily on NZ dollar
Fallout from this week's baby formula contamination threat weighed heavily on the New Zealand dollar yesterday, with news of curtailed orders from China driving the currency lower still.
Editorial: 1080 warning a double-edged sword
The Government was right to say nothing until discreet inquiries had failed and there is a chance a public appeal might help police catch him. The interval appears to have permitted the industry to be well prepared.
Exports face China test for poison
Dairy exports may already be stuck on Chinese wharves as a result of a new import requirement that products be tested for 1080 contamination, says an industry group.
Police contact 1080 opponents
Police have been contacting known 1080 opponents in a bid to find the person behind a threat to contaminate New Zealand's baby formula stocks.
1080 threat: Retailers ramp up security
The Warehouse and Foodstuffs are reassuring customers they are doing everything they can to boost security in their stores.
Formula threat: World reacts
News of New Zealand's infant formula contamination threat has spread across the world. Here is a selection of what the foreign press is saying.
1080: Letters 'irresponsible', 'stupid'
1080 opponents have condemned those behind the baby formula threat letters, branding them "irresponsible" and their actions "total stupidity".
John Armstrong: Key's silence right way to handle crisis
Should New Zealanders have been kept in the dark about the 1080 threats for nearly four months? The answer, on balance, is yes, writes John Armstrong.
Christopher Adams: All eyes on reaction of Chinese media and consumers
After everything New Zealand's infant formula industry has been through over the past few years, the last thing it needed was yesterday's news of the 1080 threat.
NZ could pay a high price
Local infant formula producers are optimistic the 1080 threat is minimal but are fearful of the reputation damage it could cause.
Formula 1080 threat sends dollar down
The New Zealand dollar dropped by half a US cent on news of a threat to contaminate infant and other formula with 1080 poison.
Fury over formula threat
Threats to contaminate infant formula with 1080 pesticide have been described as despicable and sick - but have caused more outrage than fear.
Dairy prices up 1.1pc overnight
Dairy product prices rose in the latest overnight GlobalDairyTrade auction.
Oz co-op confirms milk price forecast
Murray Goulburn, Australia's biggest dairy co-operative, has confirmed a full-year forecast farmgate price of A$6 per kg of milk solids.
Terms of trade fall 1.9%
New Zealand's export dollar does not stretch as far as it did, after the terms of trade fell 1.9 per cent in the last three months of 2014.
Fonterra 'on track' to hit payout
Fonterra chief financial officer Lukas Paravicini rejects the notion that the co-operative is playing safe in keeping this season's farm gate milk price forecast at $4.70 a kilogram of milksolids.