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China Business: Joint venture takes to the air

By Alexander Speirs Air New Zealand’s General Manager of China, Nick Judd, sat down with the Heraldin Shanghai recently to explain how their new joint venture with Air China between Beijing and Auckland will work. Judd likens the new joint ventures to other JVs the airline has with its Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines alliances. “The key different to those …

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Tony Gapes’ Victoria Street West, in liquidation, may have $1.4M available to creditors

Liquidators of property developer Tony Gapes’s investment vehicle Victoria Street West are yet to finalise how much is owed, but said there is the potential of $1.4 million to be available for unsecured creditors.. Victoria Street West appointed liquidator John Gilbert of C&C Strategic on April 10. In Gilbert’s first liquidators report he was still establishing how much was owed to …

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Biggest NZ commodity price fall since 2008 in April, led by dairy

New Zealand commodity prices had their biggest decline since the height of the global financial crisis in 2008, led by falling dairy product prices. The ANZ Commodity Price Index fell 7.4 percent in April, the biggest decline since October 2008, when it fell by the same amount. The latest decline has reversed most of the gains seen since the start of the …

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