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The former owners of Blue Star Group have swallowed a $173 million goodwill write-off and don’t look to be getting much from the sale of assets as the Australasian printing company is broken up. But the future of New Zealand’s largest commercial printer has been secured with the sale of the business to Australian private equity firm Mercury Capital and …

Michael Hill International, the jewellery chain that bears its founder’s name, said sales growth stalled in the second quarter, which limited earnings growth in the first half of the year. “December quarter sales, including the critical Christmas trading period, fell short of our forecasts and didn’t deliver the improvement over last year that the company had expected,” the Brisbane-based company …

Departing Satara Cooperative Group boss Tom Wilson has taken a stab at Zespri International’s brokerage fees at the expense of growers in his last update to shareholders. The Te Puke-based kiwifruit and avocado grower is still in talks with Zespri, which controls the nation’s kiwifruit exports, over its 6 percent brokerage rate on gross sale proceeds and 6 percent of …

The Commerce Commission has given itself an extra two months to consider competition issues raised by Vector’s proposed purchase of Contact Energy’s gas metering business, following submissions claiming the move will create a “virtual monopoly” in gas metering in Auckland.   While Vector’s application for clearance of the purchase by the competition watchdog attracted only two submissions, the commission has …

  Inghams Enterprises has yet to find a buyer for Australasia’s biggest chicken producer, which owner Bob Ingham put up for sale last July with a price tag reportedly of A$1.4 billion. “We’ve not agreed to sell the business or got an agreed buyer,” Paddy Watts, Inghams financial controller, told BusinessDesk. “We were hoping to have it done by now …

  New Zealand’s only oil refinery, at Marsden Point, is too vulnerable to the risks of a major fire or destruction from a tsunami, says Air New Zealand in a submission on a government review of the country’s transport fuel security arrangements. custom essays The national carrier also suggests the country should abandon its $10 million a year membership of …

  The University of Canterbury has partnered with ASX-listed Navitas as part of its strategy to double the percentage of foreign students enrolled to study. buy a essay No financial details of the five-year agreement were provided. Perth-based Navitas and the university will establish a new entity called UC International College, to recruit and prepare international students for study at …

Goodman Property Trust, the second-biggest property investor on the NZX, has scaled its unit purchase plan after oversubscriptions top out. The Auckland-based property investor has scaled applications to 77.95 percent after receiving$38.5 million of bids in the offer to unitholders, some $8.5 million above its limit, the company said in a statement. The UPP was seeking to raise $20 million …

Woolworths New Zealand, which accounts for about 40 percent of the country’s supermarket sales, boosted its annual profit 29 percent as it squeezed more out of increasing revenue. Net profit rose to $128.9 million in the 12 months ended June 24, from $99.8 million a year earlier, according to financial statements lodged with the Companies Office. Revenue grew 3.5 percent …

Brookfield Multiplex, the Australian firm whose New Zealand developments included the Sylvia Park Shopping Centre and the Pegasus Town development, says a lack of new projects in a tough market drove the decision to liquidate its local unit. Brookfield Multiplex Constructions (NZ) appointed liquidators on Dec. 4 though it had largely ceased operating in 2011, when it made most of …