Case growing for reviving rejected StuffME merger, says Jarden

Case growing for reviving rejected StuffME merger, says Jarden
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 12 (BusinessDesk) - Cost-cutting at online and news publisher Stuff is compromising the quality of its products, hastening a decline in its “very poor” earnings and could tip the balance to favour a revived merger with NZME, says investment house Jarden. Stuff’s steeply falling profitability and the failure of its new Australian owner to find a buyer for the New Zealand media assets is strengthening the case for reviving the merger with its main rival, NZME, which was rejected by the Commerce Commission and on ap...

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