Done in just 48 minutes: Fonterra Co-operative Group’s quickest ever annual meeting

The Shareholders’ Fund annual meeting is on Monday. (Image: NZME)

Fri, 12 Dec 2025

“A good meeting is a short one.”That was Fonterra Co-operative Group’s chair, Peter McBride, as he closed the dairy giant’s annual meeting in Christchurch on Thursday morning.What was set down to be a two-hour meeting lasted just 48 minutes – possibly the co-op’s quickest annual meeting in its history.No questions were put to the leadership, other than Bay of Plenty dairy farmer Gerard van Beek, who, most years, speaks about why lactose should be included in the milk price.It could even be said that farmer sh...

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