Zespri International, the grower-owned kiwifruit marketing company, said it expects record per-hectare returns for green and green organic kiwifruit this season following supply constraints, favourable market conditions and strong end-of-season sales. Pre-hectare returns for green kiwifruit growers are forecast at $52,987 and green organic at $42,207. The increased grower returns are across all categories and Zespri chief executive Lain Jager …

The one-year delay forecast in the New Zealand government’s return to surplus doesn’t have any implications for its Aaa credit rating, with everything else going in the right direction, according to Moody’s Investors Service Yesterday’s half-year economic and fiscal update pushed out the Treasury’s expectation for a return to surplus, projecting the Crown’s operating balance before gains and losses to be …

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is appealing am Australian Federal Court ruling clearing carriers Air New Zealand and PT Garuda Indonesia of fixing prices for international air freight services. The competition regulator’s appeal is focusing solely on the court’s finding that the activities did not occur in the Australian market, it said in a statement. In October, Justice Nye Perram dismissed the …