ANALYSIS: The infant formula marketer looks in a strong position to achieve ownership of the Dunsandel processing plant, holder of its prized China licence.
ANALYSIS: The stoush over Auckland Airport’s price hikes pits one monopolist against another while passengers bear the cost.
ANALYSIS: Lawyers' obsession with secrecy is contrary to public interest in outcome of class actions, as we see in mammoth CBL case.
ANALYSIS: Millennium & Copthorne's disdain for minority shareholders is written all over its accounts.
ANALYSIS: Government has endorsed a deal to transfer its monopoly to an overseas provider with obvious low compliance standards.
ANALYSIS: The rationale for its 18% stake in Auckland Airport is long forgotten.
ANALYSIS: Extra money in the Budget for the Green Investment Fund is more political window-dressing than environmental action.
ANALYSIS: Economists agree stadiums have little economic impact on their local communities, but what do they know? [Warning: irony ahead.]
ANALYSIS: Despite the company’s qualities, investors are expecting a lot.
ANALYSIS: After the eye-watering inflation we have experienced it’s way too soon to be talking up the market.