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Satara FY earnings drop 24% on less fruit
March 10 (BusinessWire) – Satara Cooperative Group, the fruit packer and coolstore operator, posted a 24% decline in full-year earnings, as a poorer harvest reduced fruit volumes, prompting a focus on increased efficiencies, including new automatic ...
 
New Marketing Manager for Wattie’s
Heinz Wattie’s Managing Director Nigel Comer has announced the appointment of Tim Skellern as General Manager Marketing, the role previously held by Mike Pretty who is now Vice President, Global Ketchup, Health & Wellness, and Marketing Development ...
 
Joe Bennett takes the pain out of rural medicine
Amongst the serious business on the agenda at this year’s New Zealand Rural General Practice conference, author, columnist, wit and raconteur Joe Bennett will be lurking ready to inject a healthy dose of humour into proceedings. He is not a doctor. He ...
 
SMELLIE SNIFFS THE BREEZE: Down in the Lab
March 5 (BusinessWire) - As a bouncy young Minister in 1992, Simon Upton dismembered the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and created the Crown Research Institutes, to various shrieks of heresy and with perhaps too much the idea they ...
 
Chelsea’s crowd-pleasing “floral pylons” launched
Two new releases of the Chelsea Flower Show crowd-pleasing allium bulb will be launched at next week’s Ellerslie International Flower Show.
 
Golden Year for Wattie’s Peaches
This week Wattie’s has started processing one of its heritage crops, Golden Queen Peaches, and canning will continue throughout March.
 
CRIs need shelter from bureaucrats: taskforce
March 4 (BusinessWire) - Crown Research Institutes, New Zealand's government-funded science agencies, need less bureaucratic supervision, properly functioning boards, and shouldn’t start their own businesses when private partners would do a better ...
 
Aussie Consumers Big on NZ Wine
According to the latest report from Nielsen, the New Zealand wine phenomenon has continued to gather pace in Australia with volume sales up a massive 42.3 percent over the financial year to 2009, and sales value has doubled over the last three ...
 
Squeaky clean-shoes for scientists
Biosecurity officers at Auckland International Airport won’t need to clean any dirty shoes belonging to a select group of international scientists arriving next week for the 5th International Phytophthora working party meeting.
 
MAF's Latest Trade-Impeding Money Grab
MAF Biosecurity has issued a new 'law' (under delegated authority) to start detaining thousands of low risk containers, physically inspect all six sides of each box, while charging importers $100 per hour plus fees.
 
Exciting entries Enterprising Rural Women Award
Rural Women New Zealand is delighted with the quality of entries in its Enterprising Rural Women Award 2010, which closed recently.
 
NZ commodity prices rise to 18-month high: ANZ
March 1 (BusinessWire) – The price of raw materials produced in New Zealand posted their 12th straight gain last month, led by rising lamb, skins and beef, according to the ANZ Commodity Price Index.
 
Fringe Review: Sometimes I Don’t Like Yellow
Sometimes I Don’t Like Yellow is the first production of recently formed group, My Accomplice Theatre and it’s a good start. The premise of the play is: what happens when the CEO of a pineapple company makes a mistake in peddling mysteriously addictive ...
 
Wine lake sinks Delegat's shares, write-downs loom
Feb. 26 (BusinessWire) - Delegat's Group Ltd., which makes the Cloudy Bay brand wines, is forecasting a 30%-to-40% cut in full-year earnings as it prepares to write down the value of vineyards and their "biological assets" as wine industry oversupply ...
 
AG’s report give Tasman District a big tick
The tabling of the Auditor-General’s water demand performance audit report in Parliament today should give the residents of the Tasman District confidence in the planning and management of their water.
 
Hortplus Metwatch Online 3:22pm, Thu 11th Mar 2010