Simon Hartley

Five current or former employees of PGG Wrightson and Elders Rural Holdings have to pay penalties totalling $105,000 for a price-fixing arrangement charging fees for cattle ear tags.

Oceana Gold is predicting a massive ramp-up of gold production in 2017 and a 15% fall in its crucial all-in sustaining costs of production.

Houston oil and gas giant Anadarko has joined Norway’s Statoil and Brazil’s Petrobras in relinquishing exploration permits in New Zealand, which brings the Government’s current offshore and onshore...

More litigation is in the pipeline over a soured 2009 property deal between Dunedin’s Sievwright real estate family, Edinburgh Realty and a Dunedin woman.

Australian company Bapcor is digging in over its hostile $3.60-per-share bid for Hellaby Holdings, saying it will not pay an additional 18c dividend to shareholders.

Auto  parts company Bapcor has raised its hostile takeover play for Hellaby Holdings, from $322.5million to $351.8million, and boosted its stake 10% to 40%.

Shareholders of Invercargill-based Blue Sky Meats should this week get a steer from its board on the $25.3 million takeover offer by Chinese-backed NZ Binxi (Oamaru) Foods Ltd.

Uncertanty reigns for motorists heading into New Zealand’s holiday season as global crude oil prices rise on the back of Opec members agreeing to curb production.

A package of four North Otago dairy farms, which last season produced about $8.5 million of milk, is up for sale.

Port Otago is now "looking for a home" for up to 45,000cu m of rock spoil which it plans to remove from Flagstaff Hill overlooking Port Chalmers.

The Reserve Bank is quietly paving the way for the introduction of ''debt to income'' measures for households seeking mortgages, given the ''significant risk'' of house prices continuing to climb.

Port Otago is appealing two of the conditions in the resource consent it received for heavy earthworks at Flagstaff Hill overlooking Port Chalmers.

Insurer Tower has more than tripled last year's $6.6 million loss to a $21.5 million loss, prompting it to ring-fence outstanding Canterbury insurance claims and place them in a separate, new...

Longer freight routes between the islands and through the northern South Island  have prompted freight company Toll NZ to hike its  rates.

A Southland company is selling one of New Zealand’s largest privately owned forestry portfolios, the freehold land component of five plantations covering more than 3000ha in Manawatu and Wairarapa...

Shareholders in takeover target Hellaby Holdings are enduring a war of words, between Bapcor and its hostile $322million offer and their board, over valuing head office costs.

Dunedin cancer diagnostic company Pacific Edge has posted  its largest half-year loss  in the past 13 years — $11.3 million — but is continuing to make some revenue gains.