New Zealand's business history with BusinessDesk Retrospective.
During his career, Jim Eagles scored a reporting coup in Ireland, rescued and managed community and regional newspapers and held senior editing roles on several papers of national significance.
Brian Gaynor looks at the controversies of Dutch-born businessman Alex van Heeren, from the privatisation of New Zealand Rail to the legal wrangle over Huka Lodge.
National Australia Bank purchased the BNZ at a discounted price in 1992 which saw the BNZ's delisting from the NZX and a huge transfer of value from New Zealand to Australia over the following three decades.