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Restaurant Brands, which operates four fast-food chains, expects 2014 annual profit to be “a little ahead” of the previous year as sales rise in a challenging economic environment and costs remain under control. The latest forecast reiterates the company’s comment on April 4 that profit would be higher than the $16.2 million for the 2013 financial year. No further details …

OceanaGold Corp, whose share price has plunged 59 percent in the past three months, will put off production at its Reefton mine, putting it into care and maintenance in mid-2015 until the price of gold improves. The move amounts to a two-year reduction in the mine schedule and will cut production by 110,000 ounces between 2015 and 2017 to achieve …

Smiths City, the Christchurch-based retailer, boosted annual profit by 22.7 percent as a strong rural sector underpinned gains in the South Island. The shares climbed 10 percent to a three month high 65 cents. Net profit climbed to $5.4 million, or 10.21 cents per share, in the 12 months ended April 30, from $4.4 million, or 8.28 cents, a year …

Transpower, the state-owned electricity grid company, will pay a special dividend of $65.7 million to the government this month after concluding the sale of derivatives trading unit to ASX in May. The grid company sold d-cyphaTrade to Australian stock market operator ASX for A$55 million. It set the business up in 2002 to promote Australian exchange-traded electricity futures and to …

NorthWest International Healthcare Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, the cornerstone shareholder in Vital Healthcare Property Trust, may lift its stake to as much as 24.99 percent from 20 percent by participating in its $39.2 million rights offer. Vital plans to raise the funds through a one-for-10 pro rata renounceable rights issue at $1.275 a share, the manager of the medical …

DNZ Property Fund, which is raising $80 million to help fund two new acquisitions, will ask shareholders to boost the directors’ fee pool by 27 percent, with the board having presided over a surging share price since the diversified property investor listed in 2010. The Auckland-based property investor wants shareholders to raise the pool to $375,000 for the 2014 and …

Augusta Capital managing director Mark Francis has bought out his brother’s stake in the listed property investor and fund manager for $3.8 million, taking his holding to almost 18 percent. Mark Francis bought 4.5 million shares, or 5.5 percent, of Augusta at 84.5 cents apiece from his brother and general manager Chris Francis, the company said in a statement. The …

Goodman Fielder, the biggest food company in Australia and New Zealand, expects full-year normalised earnings to fall after it sold less poultry and spent more on marketing. Earnings from continuing and discontinued operations before significant items will be A$195 million to A$200 million in the year ending June 30, the Sydney-based company said in a statement. That’s less than the …

Vital Healthcare Property Trust, whose Canadian cornerstone investor is seeking to build its stake, is planning a rights issue next month and has suspended its distribution reinvestment plan for the third-quarter. The medical and healthcare property investor’s manager, Vital Healthcare Management, intends to undertake a pro-rata renounceable offer of new units in late July, it said in a statement, without …

AMP, the dual-listed financial services firm, expects first-half earnings to fall by as much as 16 percent after its Australian wealth protection business struggled in the second quarter. The Sydney-based firm anticipates underlying profit of between A$415 million and A$435 million in the six months ending June 30, from A$491 million a year earlier, the company said in a statement. …