By Alexander Speirs Air New Zealand’s General Manager of China, Nick Judd, sat down with the Heraldin Shanghai recently to explain how their new joint venture with Air China between Beijing and Auckland will work. Judd likens the new joint ventures to other JVs the airline has with its Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines alliances. “The key different to those …

By Fran O’Sullivan, Alexander Speirs Fonterra’s Lukas Paravicini was on the money when he warned this month that the global supply and demand balance for dairy was still fragile. Fonterra’s farmer shareholders — like other milk producers in New Zealand – had been looking forward to a continuation in this year’s upswing for prices at the GlobalDairyTrade auction, as the …

By Alexander Speirs, Fran O’Sullivan New Zealand’s red-meat sector has not been a picture of robust health in recent years. While dairy has boomed – that’s until this year when China put the clamps on to cope with a massive overbuild of milk powder inventory resulting in Tuesday’s downgrading of the Fonterra milk payout — meat has stuttered with below-par …