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Primary Sector
Nestlé subsidiary to buy NZ group
Swiss-based Nestlé Health Science will take full control of a New Zealand manufacturer of honey and health supplements, subject to overseas investment office approval.
Opinion
Jenny Ruth: Govt signs off on treating Fonterra fund investors badly
Agriculture minister Damien O’Connor has acknowledged the fund investors may feel “unfairly prejudiced” and failure to buy them out could hurt NZ’s investment climate.
Primary Sector
Seeka sets its sights on being carbon neutral
Seeka is benchmarking intensity-based performance indicators to capture efficiency gains as the business grows.
Primary Sector
Warming water closes three salmon farms
Three Pelorus Sound fish farms will be "fallowed" while King Salmon grapples with high rates of fish death caused by persistently high summer water temperatures.
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Riley Kennedy
Senior Journalist
Riley Kennedy joined BusinessDesk in 2022 and covers New Zealand’s primary sector, with a focus on the country’s agribusinesses and the broader food and fibre economy. He won the DairyNZ Industry Award at the NZ Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators Awards in 2024, and was named Emerging Journalist of the Year by the New Zealand Shareholders Association in 2022. Riley previously worked as a business specialist at the Otago Daily Times and holds a diploma in journalism from Wintec.
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