Trends Publishing, fighting Callaghan over R&D grant, had already got hefty taxpayer funds

Trends Publishing, fighting Callaghan over R&D grant, had already got hefty taxpayer funds
Fiona Rotherham
By Fiona Rotherham Dec. 22 (BusinessDesk) - A heavily redacted report on Trends Publishing, at the centre of a legal spat with Callaghan Innovation over a cancelled research and development grant, said the Auckland magazine publisher had previously received hefty government funding to develop a digital platform. A Deloitte review, obtained under the Official Information Act, resulted from a dispute between Callaghan and Trends over claimed expenditure under an R&D growth grant that was cancelled a year ago. Callaghan is seeking to claw ba...