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Your old mate had to chuckle when Fonterra announced its new chief financial officer – none other than Marc Rivers.
Considering all the hoo-ha about dirty dairying and with dairy industry critics blaming the co-op for the poor state of the country’s waterways, this old mutt thinks it ironic that Fonterra’s new finance man is named Rivers. He can already see Greenpeace’s media release headline bagging the dairy sector: ‘Fonterra bags Rivers’. You read it here first.
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New Zealand needs a new healthcare model to address rising rates of obesity in rural communities, with the current system leaving many patients unable to access effective treatment or long-term support, warn GPs.
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Third-generation Ashburton dairy farmers TJ and Mark Stewart are no strangers to adapting and evolving.
When American retail giant Cosco came to audit Open Country Dairy’s new butter plant at the Waharoa site and give the green light to supply their American stores, they allowed themselves a week for the exercise.
Fonterra chair Peter McBride says the divestment of Mainland Group is their last significant asset sale and signals the end of structural changes.
