Alliance on tour: Leaders hit the road before Dawn Meats vote

Alliance's Mark Wynne (left) and chief executive Willie Wiese address farmers. (Image: Supplied)

Tue, 07 Oct 2025

The vast majority of Alliance Group’s current shareholders have signalled they’re unwilling to tip more capital into the debt-laden co-operative and support the Dawn Meats deal, its chair says.Mark Wynne and Alliance’s leadership, including chief executive Willie Wiese, have held 17 roadshow meetings in the past week with its farmer shareholders to discuss the impending deal to effectively bail the processor out.Meetings were held across Southland and Canterbury last week before heading to Marlborough and Tasman as well as the...

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