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Brian Gaynor Looks Back at the 1980s: A Four Part Series
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Brian Gaynor Looks Back at the 1980s: A Four Part Series

The mid-1980s was an incredible, exciting period that ended abruptly with the October 1987 sharemarket crash.Brian Gaynor’s four-part series examines this crazy time, when New Zealanders were totally besotted by the NZX:Part 1 looks at the NZX in the early 80s;Part 2 replays the...

Brian Gaynor 11 Jan 2021
Retrospective: NZ Forest Products - the corporate shenanigans that felled a once-proud company
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Retrospective: NZ Forest Products - the corporate shenanigans that felled a once-proud company

This article has been republished. It was first published in September 2020.As a new generation of land is converted from farming to carbon-farm tree plantations, former NZ Forest Products Kinleith mill manager Ashley Wilson looks at what and who brought down the once-mighty busi...

Ashley Wilson 09 Jan 2021
Happy New Year! Here's your eviction notice
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Happy New Year! Here's your eviction notice

Property owners say next month's new rental rules will see 'marginal' tenants evicted while pushing up rents even more.

Brent Melville 08 Jan 2021
Less is more: How Foodstuffs chopped product ranges after covid
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Less is more: How Foodstuffs chopped product ranges after covid

Before lockdown, Foodstuffs had approximately 80 different toilet papers. It "paused" about 50 of these during the lockdown.