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Two more countries join ban
Dairy giant Fonterra and the Ministry of Primary Industries are scrambling to reassure other trading partners.

Small business: Exporting - James Docking
James Docking CEO, Gentrack on the company's export story.

Small business: Exporting
Exporting is rather front of mind at the moment with one of our largest exporters working extremely hard to regain New Zealand's clean green reputation with the world.

Small business: Exporting - Jill Brinsdon
Jill Brinsdon, director of the branding consultancy, Radiation agency. She is a speaker at the Path to Market programme run by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.

High-tech firms form export alliance
Four of New Zealand's top technology firms - Gallagher Group, Endace, Wynyard Group and Tait Communications - have teamed up.

Company sticks by expansion plan
Port bosses express confidence mayoral investigation will vindicate their blueprint for further development.

'Serious lessons to learn'
Fonterra's board will conduct a "full, thorough, formal review'' into the handling of the infant formula contamination scandal, says the Fonterra chairman.

Fonterra head says 'Sorry, NZ'
Fonterra head Theo Spierings - just back from China - delivers an apology to NZ over the formula scare, but dodges questions about his own performance.

Firms fear Pure NZ ridicule
Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings reckons Fonterra's reputation will be fully restored in the Chinese market.

Fonterra chief apologises
Fonterra's chief apologised to consumers and the New Zealand public at a press conference today, saying all contaminated stock had been contained.

Fonterra fined for China price fixing
Fonterra said it had been fined $900,000 following the conclusion of a review by Chinese authorities into the pricing of dairy products in the people's republic.

Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra back on China's blacklist
There is widespread anger within the dairy industry over the length of time it was kept secret from the market while officials worked on a gameplan, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

Paul Brislen: End unhealthy reliance on dairy giant
We need to diversify. We need a concerted government-level drive to build up our other export earners, writes Paul Brislen.

100% Pure 'festering sore' - China media
Leaky homes, free market devotion and a 'festering sore' of a tourism campaign - New Zealand is coming under fire in the state-sanctioned Chinese media.

Late 'sorry' to parents
Some worried and confused parents are taking their babies to doctors, fearing the worst in the infant formula contamination scare.

Economic fallout awaited
How big a threat the whey contamination scandal poses to New Zealand's trade and economy is just too hard to gauge yet, economists said yesterday.

Key promises probe into Fonterra
Prime Minister John Key says there will be a probe into Fonterra as the Government increases pressure on the dairy giant to front up with all of the information

China questions NZ purity
China is questioning New Zealand's '100 per cent pure' brand as headlines worldwide bring attention to Fonterra's milk formula scandal.