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Franchise Association: Landlords need to be reasonable
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Franchise Association: Landlords need to be reasonable

While most businesses and landlords are able to agree an equitable split of commercial lease costs during the covid-19 lockdown, some landlords are reportedly refusing to budge on leases.The Franchise Association of New Zealand, whose members operate largely in the retail, food r...

Brent Melville 07 Apr 2020
Letting butchers process pigs 'not enough' - pork industry
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Letting butchers process pigs 'not enough' - pork industry

NZ Pork has expressed its disappointment with the agriculture minister's decision to allow butchers to process pork for supply to supermarkets and essential food processors only."It is good that they listened but our initial assessment is that won't make any significant change to...

Brent Melville 03 Apr 2020
Publishing empire scion Matthew Horton eyeing Bauer titles
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Publishing empire scion Matthew Horton eyeing Bauer titles

Horton Media will look through the wreckage of Bauer Media's New Zealand magazine publishing stable for possible bargains after Bauer announced it would immediately cease publishing many of the country's best-loved weekly titles.Queensland-based chief executive Matthew Horton tol...

Farmers want us to eat more pork, save their bacon
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Farmers want us to eat more pork, save their bacon

Pork producers say they may have to cull 20,000 or more pigs in the next four weeks if food manufacturers and supermarkets are unable to fill the gap left by the closure of independent butchers and restaurants.Pork NZ says the closure of butchers, food service and Asian supermark...

Brent Melville 01 Apr 2020