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Synlait forecasts $17m-$21m first half loss
Markets

Synlait forecasts $17m-$21m first half loss

Financing costs and lower margins are driving the revision.

Staff reporters 12 Feb 2024
Fonterra raises 2024 milk price forecast
Markets

Fonterra raises 2024 milk price forecast

CEO Hurrell says Fonterra is well-placed to weather geopolitical uncertainty

Gregor Thompson 12 Feb 2024
We’re not eating enough bacon, and that’s a problem for the economy
World

We’re not eating enough bacon, and that’s a problem for the economy

The American pork industry makes more ham sausage, and bacon than anybody wants to eat.

Maersk slashes $41.6 billion from annual earnings
Infrastructure

Maersk slashes $41.6 billion from annual earnings

Shipping line looking to trim costs in light of global challenges.

Brent Melville 09 Feb 2024


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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