NZME shareholders urge break-up and vote on Stuff takeover
Services

NZME shareholders urge break-up and vote on Stuff takeover

Shareholder activists are promising to enliven news publisher NZME's annual meeting on June 11, with one accusing it of a "sleep-walking management style". One motion seeks the company's break-up to release value, another calls for a focus on paying dividends and the third see...

Pattrick Smellie 13 May 2020
Nats eye Budget for signs of excessive pre-election spend-up
Economy

Nats eye Budget for signs of excessive pre-election spend-up

The National Party will be watching for evidence that the government is trying to spend its way out of a severe pre-election economic downturn in the Budget.

Pattrick Smellie 12 May 2020
Level 2 from Thursday morning for all but bars
Coronavirus

Level 2 from Thursday morning for all but bars

New Zealand will move out of alert level 3 lockdown on Thursday this week, although there will be a phased approach that means no gathering of more than 10 people.

Pattrick Smellie 11 May 2020
PATTRICK SMELLIE: NZME threatens govt with Bauer Mark 2
Opinion Free

Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: NZME threatens govt with Bauer Mark 2

Today’s move by NZME to try to bully the government into urgently legislating to allow its rejected merger with Stuff may just work. That‘s because NZME and Stuff’s owner, Australian Nine Entertainment, are threatening a far larger, more politically damaging version of the ear...

Pattrick Smellie 11 May 2020