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Countdown's Kiri Hannafin will take to the skies.
Victoria Young
Flying grocersKiri Hannafin was the voice of Countdown all through the covid pandemic, but the Woolworths-owned supermarket chain will need to find another frontperson for the next phase of the highly charged battle over grocery competition.That’s because she's heading over to the national carrier, Air NZ, where she will join fellow former grocer Greg Foran, who left a role as chief executive at the US retail giant Walmart to return to New Zealand and lead the airline just as covid hit.On the Money's spies say this may not have be...

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