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...

More Law & Regulation

Cost-benefit issues in spotlight amid RBNZ review
Finance

Cost-benefit issues in spotlight amid RBNZ review

Commentators raise cost-benefit concerns over the RBNZ's capital settings review.

Calibre Partners seeks buyer for Futureverse
Law & Regulation

Calibre Partners seeks buyer for Futureverse

The insolvency came just over two years after 50T Funds led a $54m funding round.

Gregor Thompson 08 Oct 2025
Former real estate agent Aaron Drever jailed for eight months
Law & Regulation

Former real estate agent Aaron Drever jailed for eight months

A disgraced real estate agent and convicted fraudster has been handed eight more months in prison for deception.Aaron Carl Drever is already behind bars for insolvency crimes, but was sentenced this week to more jail time for concealing income from the Official Assignee while an...

Staff reporters 08 Oct 2025
Philip Stevens named FMA's chief economist
Law & Regulation

Philip Stevens named FMA's chief economist

Philip Stevens has been appointed as the new chief economist of the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).With over 25 years of experience in economics, Stevens holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Oxford and has previously held directorial roles in economics at the...

BD AI 08 Oct 2025