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The food and beverage company is selling its Marlborough-based seafood business to the food manufacturing giant.

Annies – a well-known and well-loved local Marlborough brand – has been given a new chance at life by its original owner Graeme Giles. Kono NZ announced in December 2022 that it would be closing the business, which manufactures and sells dried fruit ...

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Supplied Nelson Airports board and senior management are unanimously against the holding company being proposed by Port Nelson and the Tasman and Nelson councils. Port Nelson is backing a proposed merger with Nelson Airport, saying recent difficulties culminating in the departure of the airport chief executive could have been avoided with a “stronger corporate background”. However, the airport chairman said neither the port nor Nelson City Council staff had any experience to assess the det...

Nelson Airport Ltd is on the up with strong levels of leisure travel and increasing business travel. Nelson Airport has flown back into the black with a before-tax profit of $629,000 for the six months to December 31, up from a loss of $601,000 for the previous six months. Interim chief executive Andy Wotton​ agreed the result was heartening given that international travel normally accounted for about 15 per cent of business, and it had been decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Wotton gave ...