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Australian grocer Woolworths is set to takeover 100% of Beak & Johnston NZ Pty and other assets after getting the green light ...
New Zealand's annual food prices surged by 3.5% in March 2025, marking the highest increase since January 2024. Stats NZ ...
The escalating price war among UK supermarkets will come as some relief for consumers, who are seeing food inflation creep up ...
Woolworths New Zealand plans to press on with workforce restructure as part of new operating model to be piloted in upper ...
MBIE was supposed to be the government’s go-to department, but nearly everything it gets involved in ends up turning to dust ...
Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis started the week talking tough to the two dominant supermarket chains. They were ...
it likely indicates supermarkets aren’t making excess profits. Groceries are expensive in New Zealand but not just because of the duopoly. In 2021, Coriolis Research estimated that above-average ...
Instead, it could start by looking closer to home, at its own aviation asset. It could start by demanding more public transparency from Air New Zealand about how the airline sets its ticket prices.
But unless we break the supermarket duopoly and stop them funnelling meat through their chosen processors, the price-fixing and supply squeeze will continue. Diversity is the only way to bring ...
To reduce the two Foodstuffs co-operatives and Woolworths’ hold on the market, she has asked officials to contact firms already in the New Zealand market, such as Costco and the Warehouse, as well as ...
The Finance Minister is hopeful she can bring more competition to the supermarket ... up the duopoly, possibly separating their retail and wholesale arms. Nicola Willis says New Zealand currently ...