Wool wars: Godfrey Hirst strong-arms WNZ

Wool wars: Godfrey Hirst strong-arms WNZ
Brent Melville
Godfrey Hirst is firing legal shots at Wools of New Zealand for claiming it can deliver wool carpet with a lower price than a comparable synthetic made by the rival flooring company.A legal letter sent to WNZ from Australasia's largest flooring manufacturer disputes the grower-owned firm's claim it’s cheaper to carpet a house with WNZ’s new range of 48-ounce cut pile wool carpet than Godfrey Hirst’s equivalent solution: dyed nylon carpet.The claim it would cost $8,158 to carpet an ‘entire house’ with a 48-o...

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