State-owned broadcaster Television New Zealand is still ironing out the details of its dividend relief with its shareholding ministers, which will be linked to the cost of upgrading its Victoria St West building and won’t go beyond 2016. The Auckland-based broadcaster today announced the sale of two plots of prime Auckland real estate to SkyCity Entertainment Group for $10.6 million, …

A2 Corp managing director Geoffrey Babidge and director David Mair have taken of a 38 percent surge in the share price of the dairy marketing company to trim their holdings. Babidge’s GHB Investment Trust sold 4 million shares, leaving it with 6 million, the Sydney-based company said in a statement. Mair’s DM2 Investment Trust sold 2 million shares, leaving it …

Auckland house prices have stabilised following a rapid increase in the first quarter of this year, as more properties are listed, according to Barfoot & Thompson, the city’s biggest realtor. The average sale price slipped 1 percent to $647,647 in August from July and is 0.4 percent lower than June, the firm said. The median price in August fell 4 …

New Zealand dairy products ranging from milk powder to mozzarella cheese are being held on the wharves at Chinese ports as officials debate what form of additional testing should be applied following Fonterra Cooperative Group’s whey protein scare. free spy apps for iphone The Ministry of Primary Industries in Wellington confirmed to BusinessDesk late last week that exporters other than …

cell phone spy free p id=”yui_3_7_2_1_1377459141818_2879″>Fonterra Cooperative Group says it has suspended its consumer operations in Sri Lanka, where sales of its products have been temporarily banned from sale, because of nationalist protests outside its local offices. The company”s Sri Lanka business is currently prevented by a court order from selling, advertising or making public statement with customers or consumers, …

David Ross, the Ponzi-accused former manager of Ross Asset Management, appeared in the District Court in Wellington this morning for substantive hearings on eight Crimes and Financial Advisers Act charges. He was remanded until Aug. 29. All aspects of today’s hearing were supressed. Ross faces charges relating to $384.8 million of assets recorded in the accounts of a Ross vehicle, …

?David Shearer has resigned as leader of the New Zealand’s opposition Labour Party, having failed to make a dent in the popularity of the ruling National Party and Prime Minister John Key. “There needs to be a Labour-led government and the ambitions of one person should never be larger than that purpose,” Shearer told reporters at a media conference in …

Fairfax Media Group’s New Zealand unit, which includes the Dominion Post, Press and Sunday Star Times newspapers, reported a 15 percent decline in annual earnings, outperforming the company’s papers In Australian. New Zealand earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation fell to $77.8 million in the 12 months ended June 30, from $91.7 million a year earlier, the Sydney-based company …

Punakaiki Fund, set up by Pacific Fibre co-founder and internet commentator Lance Wiggs, is seeking to raise up to $50 million to invest in early stage New Zealand technology, internet and design companies. spy to mobile The fund registered a prospectus for an initial public offering of $20 million of shares at $1 apiece with oversubscriptions for a further $30 …

?Fonterra Cooperative Group, beset by food standards issues after the bacteria that can cause botulism was found in its supply chain, had another stumble in China in May when 42 tonnes of milk powder were held up over elevated nitrate levels. cell phone hacking The milk powder was among 163 batches of foods and cosmetics prevented from entering China by …