APN News & Media, the Australasian publisher of the NZ Herald, is aiming to cut A$25 million of costs this year, with the bulk to come from its New Zealand operations, shareholders were told at the annual meeting in Sydney. New Zealand Media chief executive Martin Simons, said APN’s major cost restructuring projects have been completed, with the outsourcing of …
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Fairfax faces siege in 2013 as Rinehart allies with Singleton to renew assault
Fairfax Media Group will face another raid by activist shareholder and iron ore magnate Gina Rinehart after she enlisted Macquarie Radio Network’s John Singleton in her bid to exert control over the publisher of the Dominion Post, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Financial Review. Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting and Singleton’s Gutenberg Investments have pooled their Fairfax shareholding to hold 15.4 percent …
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Fairfax Media, which publishes the Dominion Post, Press and Sunday Star Times newspapers, slashed the value of its New Zealand mastheads by more than 80 percent in a group-wide writedown of its traditional publishing assets. write my essay cheap The New Zealand holding company, Fairfax New Zealand Holdings, valued its local newspaper titles at $175.2 million as at June 30, …
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