Sky TV's Fellet tells shareholders submissions against merger 'misleading and inaccurate'
By Fiona Rotherham Oct. 20 (BusinessDesk) - Sky Network Television chief executive John Fellet has hit out at submissions opposing the pay-television broadcaster’s planned $3.44 billion merger with Vodafone, describing them as “unified by their predictability and misleading an...
Auckland Airport's job skills hub extended to other local companies
By Fiona Rotherham Oct. 20 (BusinessDesk) - Auckland International Airport says other companies operating near the airport have joined ARA, its job skills and education hub designed to source skilled labour during the current construction boom. The programme, set up late la...
Private equity fund managers should take lead in innovation investment, Australia's Bill Ferris says
By Fiona Rotherham Oct. 20 (BusinessDesk) - There is a “compelling opportunity” for private equity general partners to play a lead role in the take-up of innovation, says Bill Ferris, chair of the independent body tasked with improving Australia’s innovation performance. F...
Lewis Road and Whittaker's launch latest chocolate innovation - chocolate butter
By Fiona Rotherham Oct. 19 (BusinessDesk) - Dairy brand company Lewis Road Creamery is launching a chocolate butter in the first collaboration with Whittaker’s since its up-market chocolate milk sent Kiwis into a sugar-laden frenzy in 2014. The four-year-old Auckland-based...
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