Synlait Milk’s Chinese and New Zealand shareholders still want to list the company’s shares on the NZX, but there will be no float in the near future, says the Dunsandel milk processor’s chief executive, John Penno. “At some stage, it (a share float) is on the agenda in that both shareholders believe long term it’s the best place to have …

The New Zealand government”s operating deficit was wider than forecast in the first four months of the financial year as the Crown clipped a smaller tax take on consumer spending and wages. The operating balance before gains and losses (obegal) was a deficit of $2.87 billion in the four months ended Oct. 31, $169 million, or 6.3 percent, bigger than …

Hallenstein Glasson Holdings, the clothing chain, said sales in the first four months of the year are up 7 percent and profit is ahead of the same period last year. “While this is a good start, the success of the first half of our financial year hinges on our December trade,” chairman Warren Bell told shareholders at their annual meeting …