Fonterra Cooperative Group’s forecast 17 percent drop in its milk payout for 2014/2015 will likely weigh on the New Zealand economy next year but will have less impact on the dairy exporter’s own earnings, which have been driven by the gap between milk powders and other products. The world’s biggest dairy exporter forecast a farmgate milk payout for the coming …

Goldman Sachs New Zealand Holdings, the local unit of the Wall Street investment bank, posted a 63% percent jump in revenue in 2013, a boom year for market activity that saw it win a share of deals including the floats of Z Energy, Meridian Energy and Synlait Milk, Tower’s asset sales, Harvard University’s forest sale and the selldown of Air …

Moa Group, the boutique beer maker which raised $16 million when it went public in 2012, posted a wider full-year loss and said major shareholders Pioneer Capital and the Business Bakery have committed to providing enough financial support to allow the company to keep operating for at least the year ahead. The net loss was $5.8 million, or 19.2 cents …