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templeton emerging markets
Templeton Emerging Markets Plc aims to provide long-term capital appreciation for its investors, through investment in companies operating in emerging markets. Company Details Registered Office: 5 M
stevenson group to look at selling construction materials unit next year
By Paul McBeth Dec. 15 (BusinessDesk) - Stevenson Group will test buyer appetite for its concrete business next year in a market the managing director Mark Franklin doesn't see abating any time soon.
tpt group still hungry for acquisitions after 25 years
When you hear the phrase mergers and acquisitions, your mind’s eye might conjure up visions of Commercial Bay in downtown Auckland, New Zealand’s beating heart of commerce, where corporate lawyers
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quiznessdesk monday dec 19 2022
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trans tasman political insider newsletter publisher faces liquidation
By Paul McBeth Nov. 22 (BusinessDesk) - The Main Report Group of companies, which publishes the long-running Trans Tasman 'political insider' newsletter, is facing liquidation and owner Max Bowden ha
stevenson ran exhaustive tender for lochinver seeks capital for quarrying
By Jonathan Underhill Aug. 4 (BusinessDesk) - Stevenson Group, the concrete, quarrying and engineering firm that owns Lochinver Station, ran an extensive tender before agreeing to sell the 13,843 h
cow collar start up halter takes top spot on deloitte fast50
Virtual fencing and pasture management start-up Halter has clinched the top spot on Deloitte’s 2024 Fast 50 index with 1,539% revenue growth in three years. To be eligible, firms had to generate
oceania to raise 100m to buy new village land
Oceania Healthcare said it will raise up to $100 million of fresh equity to pay for the $77m acquisition of an existing retirement village at Hobsonville Point and 6.1 hectares of land at Franklin. Oc
fund weather report not just blue skies over black barn
It was darkening outside Black Barn, volatile storm clouds cluttering the early evening sky as the crowd gathered. From the patio of the Hawkes Bay vineyard, we could see across the bay where a rare w
fulton hogan to buy stevensons construction materials unit for undisclosed sum
By Paul McBeth May 21 (BusinessDesk) - Fulton Hogan has bought Stevenson Group's construction materials units for an undisclosed sum, adding two quarries, four concrete plants and a lab testing facili
trump tariffs are a wealth killer
By Andy Kessler “We will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens,” US President Donald Trump declared in his inauguration speech. Adam Smith, the Scottish economist and philosopher
quiznessdesk thursday oct 17
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powerco appoints jason franklin as new chief executive
North Island gas and lines company Powerco has appointed Jason Franklin as its new chief executive. He replaces James Kilty, who left the company last month to become CEO of Transpower. Franklin is cu
when a billion dollars a year in property deals is enough
Property developer Nigel McKenna isn't at his physical best, recovering from covid-19 at one of his two Auckland homes. It's slowed him down but hasn’t stopped him from getting on the phone, as he m
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scaling blackrock mountain
In the BlackRock Candy Mountains, it’s the best we’ve seen in years Whole portfolio solutions rain inflows by the score And private asset markets drive strong growth every day And equities and
while you were sleeping alcoa lifts mood
By Margreet Dietz July 10 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street gained, rising for the first day in three, after Alcoa’s better-than-expected quarterly profit bolstered optimism about the US second-quarter
big deal getting ahead in global funds management
New Zealand is a rounding error in the global funds management calculation. The Thinking Ahead Institute, at least, has rounded NZ out of its latest computation of the world’s 500 largest asset mana
unscrambling egs investment in trumps world
Acronym-coiners missed a trick when midwifing the birth of the environmental, social and governance movement some indeterminate number of years ago. Why not environmental, governance and social? EGS
into the ice review north by northwest
By Mark Yost Many people reassessed their lives during the covid-19 pandemic. Mark Synnott, an accomplished mountaineer and writer, decided it was a good time to refit his sailboat, the Polar Sun, a
the rise of paerata and the fall of farming in franklin
Franklin farmers Steve and Andrea Mills are facing up to the loss of their dairy farm's prize asset, their 50-bale rotary cowshed, which will make way for the fast expanding Paerata Rise township with
pwc liquidators working on chris cooks entity ask dean franklin for info
The PwC liquidators appointed by the high court to another of Chris Cook’s entities have contacted former director Dean Franklin – who stood down just days before its collapse – for information.
auckland unlimited chair mark franklin dies
Tātaki Auckland Unlimited chair Mark Franklin has died while being treated for cancer in Australia. He became chair of Auckland Tourism, Events & Economic Development in November 2018, then chair of
jonathan underhill a personal obituary
Without Jonathan Underhill, there would never have been BusinessDesk. He had the idea. He found and landed our first customer, and most importantly, he committed from the start in 2008 to “work very
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