Law & Regulation
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Finance
Bublitz to serve home detention following appeal
By Victoria Young Aug. 16 (BusinessDesk) - A partially successful appeal will see former Viaduct Capital and Mutual Finance executive Paul Bublitz leave prison for home detention after some convictions were quashed. Earlier this year, Bublitz was convicted of several charg...
Property
Mainzeal’s Yan to resist bankruptcy
By Victoria Young Aug. 16 (BusinessDesk) - Former Mainzeal director Richard Yan says he’ll fight pressure from liquidators at BDO after they moved to make him bankrupt. On Monday, BDO liquidators Andrew Bethell and Brian Mayo-Smith said they had been forced to apply for b...
Primary Sector
ComCom pushes Fonterra on impact of carbon reductions
By Rebecca Howard Aug. 15 (BusinessDesk) - The Commerce Commission wants more information from Fonterra Cooperative Group on what it thinks the cost of cutting carbon emissions will have on the milk price paid to farmers. Fonterra’s manufacturing sites source around 40 per...
Retail
Foodstuffs disappointed as Countdown case moved to arbitration
By Victoria Young Aug. 13 (BusinessDesk) - Pak’nSave owner Foodstuffs said it is disappointed a fight over lease covenants will likely play out in secret, following a High Court ruling. Whether arbitration clauses with lessees transfer onto a new property owner was the key...
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Victoria Young
Editor
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.
She has been instrumental in growing BusinessDesk as this country’s premium business news brand.
She was the 2023 recipient of a Brian Gaynor initiative grant.
Victoria holds law and arts degrees from Victoria University of Wellington.
You can follow her on Twitter @victoriayoung03 or connect with her on LinkedIn here.
She has been instrumental in growing BusinessDesk as this country’s premium business news brand.
She was the 2023 recipient of a Brian Gaynor initiative grant.
Victoria holds law and arts degrees from Victoria University of Wellington.
You can follow her on Twitter @victoriayoung03 or connect with her on LinkedIn here.
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