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Contact's Barnes to depart
By Gavin Evans June 17 (BusinessDesk) - Contact Energy chief executive Dennis Barnes is to leave the business early next year. Barnes joined Contact from former parent company Origin Energy in April 2011. During his tenure the firm reworked its Wairakei geothermal field,...
Contact secures winter gas from OMV
By Gavin Evans June 14 (BusinessDesk) - Contact Energy says it has bought a winter gas supply from OMV as part of a deal that will also give it access to future supplies from the Maui field. The company, which started 2019 with only 4.9 petajoules contracted, says it will b...
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Arrow International liquidators find $40M of notional assets
By Jenny Ruth June 14 (BusinessDesk) - The first liquidators reports on Arrow International say the company’s main subsidiary has a notional $40 million available for unsecured creditors, not including $4.5 million in retentions held in trust. That’s after $2.4 million owed...
Provincial centres lead the way in UFB uptake
By Paul McBeth June 14 (BusinessDesk) - Provincial centres have shown the greatest willingness to adopt ultrafast broadband, with deeper penetration in the likes of Nelson, Tauranga and Hamilton than in the nation's major urban centres. The Ministry of Business Innovation ...
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Oliver Lewis won the local government reporting category at the 2023 Voyager Media Awards. He is part of our investigations unit and also covers infrastructure, housing and employment issues. Formerly with Stuff/The Press, Oliver has also written for the Guardian and North & South.
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