Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, is going ahead with a plan to build a cheese plant and dairy ingredient factory in the north of the Netherlands with Dutch dairy firm A-ware Food Group. The dairy companies will develop a greenfield site in Heerenveen where A-ware will operate a cheese plant and Fonterra the ingredients unit alongside, Fonterra …

Former Hanover Finance shareholders Mark Hotchin and Eric Watson have settled their defamation suit against the New Zealand Shareholders Association and continue to pursue its former chairman Bruce Sheppard. The association awarded its 2010 Golden Glob award to the two businessmen in 2010, a gong it gives out for “appalling corporate practise.” Sheppard gave media interviews in 2009 where he …

Warehouse Group, which reports its first-half profit this week, will spend up to $33 million buying online retailer Torpedo7, just months after buying consumer electronics chain Noel Leeming Group. The country’s biggest listed retailer will pay $20 million upon settlement, and up to a further $13 million over the next three years if earn-out targets are met, for a 51 …