Nappies fight involving Zuru founder set down for 2025 trial

Nappies fight involving Zuru founder set down for 2025 trial
Grant Taylor and Nick Mowbray were once friends. (Image: NZME)
Oliver Lewis
Legal action between global nappies brand Rascals – part of the Zuru Edge stable of consumer goods – and the family that founded the company has been set down for a four-week trial starting next August.The original company behind Rascals, which rebranded from Rascal and Friends this year, was founded by Grant Taylor and his sister Louise Stainthorpe in Hamilton. When the NZ entity, Rascal and Friends Limited, was incorporated in 2017, Taylor and Stainthorpe were listed as directors alongside their father, Keith, and entrepreneu...

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