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Fonterra rivals fear dairy giant will get leg up from law overhaul
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Fonterra rivals fear dairy giant will get leg up from law overhaul

Independent dairy processors fear Fonterra Cooperative Group will get an unfair advantage from proposed changes to the law governing the dairy sector and have warned MPs against rubber-stamping certain provisions.Parliament's primary production select committee is scheduled to re...

Rebecca Howard 22 Oct 2019
Fonterra seeks further changes to dairy act
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Fonterra seeks further changes to dairy act

The Dairy Industry Restructuring Act needs to stop tilting the playing field in favour of foreign-backed competitors with significant capital resources, Fonterra Cooperative Group says. Eighteen years after the passage of the original legislation, there are 10 competitors oper...

Rebecca Howard 21 Oct 2019
UPDATE: Major investors back new CBL class action targeting directors
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UPDATE: Major investors back new CBL class action targeting directors

(Updates to add comment from IMF Bentham in third to last par)Another class action related to the collapse of CBL Corp has been launched, this one with the support of the insurer's major shareholders and targeting CBL's directors.Those shareholders include the largest institution...

Jenny Ruth 18 Oct 2019
Major investors back new CBL class action targeting directors
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Major investors back new CBL class action targeting directors

Another class action related to the collapse of CBL Corp has been launched, this one with the support of the insurer's major shareholders and targeting CBL's directors.Those shareholders include the largest institutional investor, Harbour Asset Management, Australia-based Argo In...

Jenny Ruth 18 Oct 2019


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With a professional career spanning New Zealand, Singapore, and London, Victoria Young has been with BusinessDesk since 2019, initially as a senior reporter before taking on the role of investigations editor in 2022, then editor in 2024. 
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