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Alliance Group on path back to profit

Alliance Group on path back to profit

It now needs north of $200 million of capital to restore its balance sheet.

Riley Kennedy 23 Apr 2025
Potential Mainland buyers may soon tap regulators
Markets

Potential Mainland buyers may soon tap regulators

Fonterra's divestment process is gaining traction.

Riley Kennedy 17 Apr 2025
Urgent call for change in lagging agri-products approval pathway

Urgent call for change in lagging agri-products approval pathway

But the regulators say changes are being made.

Riley Kennedy 17 Apr 2025
TTR files fast-track application to mine Taranaki sand
Economy

TTR files fast-track application to mine Taranaki sand

Seabed mining firm Trans-Tasman Resources has lodged its application to fast-track its project to harvest iron sands off the coast of Taranaki. The firm's parent company, Manuka Resources, told the Australian Securities Exchange (NZX) on Wednesday that the application was lod...

Staff reporters 16 Apr 2025


Riley Kennedy
Riley Kennedy

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Riley won the Dairy NZ Industry Award at the NZ Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators Awards in 2024. He was the New Zealand Shareholders Association emerging journalist of the year in 2022.  His journalism experience includes more than a year as a business specialist at the Otago Daily Times. He has a diploma in journalism from Wintec. 

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