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Aussie housing downturn FBU's big challenge, says Jarden
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Aussie housing downturn FBU's big challenge, says Jarden

By Pattrick Smellie June 28 (BusinessDesk) - Fletcher Building's credibility relies on delivering improvements in its Australian business before anything else, even though there are signs of a "major downturn" in the Australian residential construction sector and potential for...

Pattrick Smellie 28 Jun 2019
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Preference for staff, iwi, locals in Napier Port share sale
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Preference for staff, iwi, locals in Napier Port share sale

By Gavin Evans June 28 (BusinessDesk) - Napier Port staff wanting to participate in the firm’s partial listing have been guaranteed a minimum of $5,000 worth of stock. The port, currently owned by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, will offer 45 percent of its shares to investor...

Gavin Evans 28 Jun 2019
Gabs's last hurrah - Makhlouf apologises, agrees he erred
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Gabs's last hurrah - Makhlouf apologises, agrees he erred

By Pattrick Smellie June 27 (BusinessDesk) - The departing secretary to the Treasury, Gabriel 'Gabs' Makhlouf has issued an apology for his department's lax website security and agreed that he got it wrong in describing the resulting breach of Budget security as a case of bein...

Pattrick Smellie 27 Jun 2019
Ardern reshuffles Woods to housing czar; no demotion for Twyford
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Ardern reshuffles Woods to housing czar; no demotion for Twyford

By Pattrick Smellie June 27 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made Megan Woods her new housing minister in a bid to cauterise the political damage done by Phil Twyford’s leadership of the struggling KiwiBuild programme. Twyford remains in charge of urban devel...

Pattrick Smellie 27 Jun 2019