Foodstuffs North Island alleges defamation over merger opinion piece

Foodstuffs North Island alleges defamation over merger opinion piece
Foodstuffs North Island runs 46 Pak'nSave stores across the North Island. (Image: Paul Taylor)
Gregor Thompson
Foodstuffs North Island has made legal moves to silence an academic critical of its proposed merger.  On behalf of Foodstuffs North Island, Chapman Tripp lawyers sent a letter to the University of Auckland requesting it remove an opinion article from its website on June 21.The letter, which BusinessDesk obtained, is titled “defamatory article on the university’s website”.It references an op-ed article titled “Foodstuffs wants to merge its co-ops, but consumers need the opposite”, written by Auckland University...

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