New Zealand's High Court ruled Wednesday that Kim Dotcom and a Megaupload colleague can pursue damages against police and one of the country's spy services for illegally intercepting their communications. In her judgment,Justice Helen ...
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B.-d. Farm Paris Creek, a dairy products manufacturer in Australia, is recalling Organic Biodynamic Yoghurt Apricot due to microbial contamination (E. coli), according to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). This product was sold ...
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Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) has issued a warning about supplementary sports foods containing an ingredient known as DMAA, following some adverse health reports in Australia. FSANZ Deputy chief executive officer Melanie ...
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The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), the regulatory body for therapeutic goods in Australia, has prohibited sale, supply and use of DMAA (1,3-dimethylamylamine), an ingredient used in some sports supplements. The TGA noted that it ...
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Smith&Smith has sold its building glass company to focus on its core business of fixing car windows. Managing director Wayne Carter said Building Glass Limited had bought its building glass installation and repair business for an ...
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Grand Foods is recalling Mint Tr Kuru Nane (Tr) – dried mint in Australia over Salmonella contamination concerns, according to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ). The product was sold in 200g packages at Grand Foods ...
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Australia's leading poultry processor Inghams Enterprises has been put up for sale by its only shareholder Bob Ingham,in a deal which is expected to attract food companies as well as private equity firms. Investec Bank has been appointed ...
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Bay Cuisine,a New Zealand meat firm,has recalled several of its products after tests revealed that they were linked to a Listeria outbreak that led to two deaths at a hospital. Bay Cuisine,which provides the food items to the ...
Australian Wool Industries Secretariat Inc (AWIS) releases wool sales report for week ending October 5. The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) Regional Indicators finished 1.7% higher, on average, at sales in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle ...
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Australasian food company Goodman Fielder has entered into an agreement to sell its Integro oils business to a consortium comprising GrainCorp and Gardner Smith for A$170m($176m). The sale does not include the out-of-home business in ...
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The Insurance Council of New Zealand (ICNZ) has appointed Tim Grafton as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective from November 2012. Grafton, currently serving as executive director at UMR Research, will succeed Chris Ryan, who ...
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Health and Disability Ethics Committee of the New Zealand Ministry of Health has granted ethical approval for Living Cell Technologies' (LCT) Phase I Parkinson's disease trials of NTCELL. The company won regulatory authorisation to ...
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New Zealand ingredient company BioVittoria has announced that McNeil Nutritionals has launched 'Nectresse Natural No Calorie Sweetener' – a new tabletop sweetener made with BioVittoria's monk fruit extract, in the US. McNeil ...
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Packaging papers manufacturer in Australia PaperlinX is set to implement restructuring and cost reduction initiatives in its businesses in the UK, in a bid to cater to the ongoing depressed trading conditions in Europe. The company will ...
Tags: Packaging, diversified range of products, depressed trading
In 2012 Australian retail conditions continued to be difficult. Although the fundamentals of the Australian economy improved with growing GDP, declining interest rates and low levels of unemployment, consumer sentiment remained soft with ...
Tags: retail conditions, fundamentals, growing GDP, consumer sentiment