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Telco fight breaks out over covid-19 'wall of bad debt'
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Telco fight breaks out over covid-19 'wall of bad debt'

Monopoly telecommunications infrastructure provider Chorus is coming under intense pressure from retailers Spark, Vodafone, 2degrees and others to shoulder more of the unpaid bills that the sector sees coming at it in coming months.BusinessDesk has been told of heated scenes at a...

Pattrick Smellie 29 Mar 2020
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Plexure forecasts a ramp up in annual revenue growth
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Plexure forecasts a ramp up in annual revenue growth

Marketing technology company Plexure has lifted its already strong revenue guidance and could deliver as much as a 48 percent increase for the year ending March.Plexure, which attracted fast-food operator McDonald's as a 9.9 percent shareholder in April last year and which counts...

Jenny Ruth 10 Feb 2020
BRIAN GAYNOR: Hart hits the jackpot again while Watson flounders
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Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: Hart hits the jackpot again while Watson flounders

It’s hard to believe but 20 years ago a major debate was whether Graeme Hart or Eric Watson would be New Zealand’s next business megastar.At the beginning of 2000, when Hart was 44 and Watson 40, they had both made their first $100 million and were in a mad rush to acquire furthe...

Brian Gaynor 08 Feb 2020
Founder exits vital to $34 billion value created by NZ ‘unicorns’, says Callaghan
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Founder exits vital to $34 billion value created by NZ ‘unicorns’, says Callaghan

By Pattrick Smellie April 8 (BusinessDesk) - Company founders’ willingness to sell to a new owner or welcome new shareholders has been vital to New Zealand businesses that have created around $34 billion of value in the last 15 years, says a new report from Callaghan Innovatio...

Pattrick Smellie 07 Apr 2019