Wrightson's boardroom kerfuffle not smallfry

Wrightson's boardroom kerfuffle not smallfry
Wrightson doesn't need distractions while it keeps on serving rural communities. (Image: Getty)
Paul McBeth
PGG Wrightson must really be wondering whether Agria was the white knight it needed all those years ago. The grand scheme of Craig Norgate to stitch Wrightson together with meat processor Silver Fern Farms came a cropper in the late 2000s when the global financial crisis hit, saddling the rural services company with too much debt at a time when the d-word was a dirty one. Agria bailed it out in 2009 and two years later came back with a partial takeover offer alongside Ngāi Tahu and New Hope with a keen eye on the seeds business i...

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