Rolling out the summer hits

Rolling out the summer hits
The late Brian Gaynor (left) and Pattrick Smellie hosting a turning point in BusinessDesk's history. (Image: Norrie Montgomery)
Paul McBeth
The classic year in review is a standard-bearer of summer fare in the news pages, but given how dour this year has been, from the Auckland washout at the start of the year to the overblown rhetoric of the new government’s non-event mini-budget, we’ve looked back a little bit further. So far back, in fact, that some early pieces were under our old BusinessWire branding – from a time before we were kindly asked to cease and desist. So crack open a cold one, grab some cherries and join us through the years as we take a trip...

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