buy snow leopard online Veritas Investments, the shell company listed on the NZX after Salvus Strategic Investments was wound up, has agreed to buy the Mad Butcher franchisor business in a $40 million cash and scrip deal, and will seek more funding from the public early next year. The NZX-listed firm will pay $20 million in cash and $20 million …

New Zealand business confidence fell this month, while holding at reasonably upbeat levels, continuing a monthly see-saw in the sentiment in an economy that’s only recording tepid growth. A net 23 percent of respondents in the ANZ Bank Business Outlook expect general business conditions to improve in the year ahead, down from 26 percent in the previous month’s survey. Those …

State-owned Meridian Energy sold its Energy for Industry subsidiary to Central Otago-based Pioneer Generation in a transaction worth more than $50 million. Energy for Industry, which was established in 2000, provides energy management services to companies, according to its website. The sale is part of Meridian’s plan to divest non-core subsidiaries, it said. Meridian is one of the state-owned power …