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...
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.
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: 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...