Armstrong on handling of Fonterra fiasco
John Armstrong writes at NZ Herald: Unlike its management of some ongoing and by comparison trivial matters of state – such as the accessing of Peter Dunne’s emails – the Government’s handling of the...
View ArticleThe Inquiries Bill
Adam Bennett at NZ Herald reports: The Government plans to force a largely forgotten five-year-old bill through Parliament in three weeks to allow a short, sharp “Government inquiry” into the Fonterra...
View ArticleNo botulism
Stuff reports: Fonterra will still face dual investigations over a botulism scare, even though it has turned out to be a false alarm. Yesterday the Ministry for Primary Industries said fresh testing of...
View ArticleFonterra’s working name was Aorangi
There has been quite a lot of discussion over how the BCG timesheets showed the client as Fonterra in 1997 and 1999 when the name wasn’t registered until 2001. A very well placed source tells me that...
View ArticleTaking the padding a step further
A commenter on The Standard has pointed out the following quote from Hansard: Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE (Labour—New Lynn) : It is a pleasure to take a call on the Dairy Industry Restructuring Amendment Bill...
View ArticleNot a dirty pipe
The Herald reports: An independent inquiry into Fonterra’s botulism scare has revealed a broken torch sparked the contamination scandal. The inquiry was funded by the dairy giant and employed a panel...
View ArticleAn unjustified dismissal
An interesting case from the Employment Relations Authority. A Fonterra worker was dismissed for taking part in two Harlem Shake meme videos filmed at Fonterra’s Takanini plant. Reading the judgement I...
View ArticleFonterra slammed
Stuff reports: Fonterra focused on profits at the expense of a food-safety culture, the damning final report into a botulism scare that damaged New Zealand’s international reputation has found. Earlier...
View ArticleShock horror – more Chinese foreign investment
The Herald reports: Dairy giant Fonterra will purchase an 18.8 per cent stake in Chinese infant formula maker Beingmate Baby & Child, slightly less than the 20 per cent shareholding it was aiming...
View ArticleLabour showing why they’re a joke party
The Herald reports: The Labour Party has launched into the controversy surrounding Fonterra’s latest restructuring by saying chief executive Theo Spierings should take a voluntary pay cut “to restore...
View ArticleThe milk auction
Stuff reports: NZ First leader Winston Peters is backing Waikato Federated Farmers’ call for a suspension of Fonterra’s online auction until sliding dairy prices stabilise. On Sunday, Peters called on...
View ArticleFonterra board should take heed
The ODT reports: A proposal to slash the size of the Fonterra board from 13 to nine came in for hot debate by shareholders at the co-operative’s annual meeting yesterday in the small Waikato town of...
View ArticleShame Fonterra
Stuff reports: Business owners have been left feeling bullied by Fonterra over changes they say mean cutting their prices and waiting longer to get paid. A letter from Fonterra’s chief financial...
View ArticleShould Fonterra board reduce even further?
Stuff reports: Fonterra will announce plans to cut two directors from its board on Thursday, just months after fighting off a pressure for a similar move driven by its shareholders. On Wednesday night...
View ArticleFonterra is not a monopoly
The Herald reports: Fonterra has continued to lose farmers to its competitors, based on latest production data. The co-operative’s market share last year ran at about 85 per cent, down from 96 per cent...
View ArticlePeters against farmers making more money
Stuff reports: Dairy giant Fonterra has been accused of “economic treason” after shipping thousands of dairy cows from Timaru to China. … New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said this trend would...
View ArticleGreenpeace wants to increase global emissions
Greenpeace released: Greenpeace have welcomed Fonterra’s pledge to substantially reduce climate emissions from agriculture, but say there is a “gaping hole” in the plan. Today, New Zealand’s largest...
View ArticleIt’s not in a personal capacity
Radio NZ reports: New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has swung in behind his MP Shane Jones, joining him in savaging Fonterra and its chairperson. Mr Jones – who is Regional Development Minister –...
View ArticleWe need more kindness like this
A lovely story from Radio NZ: In the Te Rapa district of Hamilton, Fonterra tanker drivers know that every evening their biggest fan will be waiting for them on a dairy farm on Reid Road. Fonterra’s...
View ArticleMore coal likely due to Government’s oil and gas ban
Stuff reports: The Government’s offshore oil and gas exploration ban could force a rethink of Fonterra’s plans to switch some of its sites from coal to gas.Several of the dairy co-op’s North Island...
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