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Foodstuffs’ best weapon against a break-up is a 2.3% profit margin

Foodstuffs has stopped arguing about principle and started arguing about arithmetic. Its newly released, commissioned review of the modelling behind...

By B2B News | 04 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Fast-track’s promise of certainty is dying in a Queenstown basin

Fast-track consenting was sold to developers as a certainty product. Pay for a strong application, skip the years of RMA...

By B2B News | 04 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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A Land Rover name on a Chery platform is the threat premium dealers missed

Chinese-backed cars stopped being a fringe story in New Zealand some time ago. The confirmation that the Freelander 8 will...

By B2B News | 04 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Seventy percent FTA coverage couldn’t stop a 9% terms-of-trade hit

New Zealand's trade policy still rests on a comfortable assumption: if a small country signs enough free-trade agreements and backs...

By B2B News | 03 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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