Articles by Anne Gibson
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Business
Foodstuffs North Island fined $3.25m for anti-competitive land covenants
Thursday, 8 August 2024, 2:24pmNew Zealand’s biggest supermarket business has been fined $3.25 million for imposing anti-competitive land covenants to try...
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Business
Big profit hit for NZ's largest listed retirement company
Monday, 19 February 2024, 3:02pmNew Zealand’s biggest listed retirement company, Ryman Healthcare, has downgraded its profit outlook from $300 million-$330m...
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Business
Second Costco Wholesale site tipped, bosses aren't confirming
Monday, 12 February 2024, 2:46pmCostco Wholesale has always vowed a second New Zealand store and now fans claim they know where it will be. So far, Costco...
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Crime
Alarming: Thieves push Mitre 10 Mega owner's buttons, take full trolley
Wednesday, 24 January 2024, 2:38pmTwo thieves allegedly stole from one of New Zealand’s largest Mitre 10 Mega stores on Sunday, using a method which has left...
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Business
New housing consents continue to fall, down 11 percent
Monday, 3 July 2023, 4:03pmThe economic downturn is continuing to drive down activity in the residential building sector. StatsNZ said 45,159 new homes...
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Business
Fletcher Building still feeling the heat after SkyCity inferno
Monday, 13 February 2023, 3:44pmBuilding materials and construction giant Fletcher Building has signalled tougher times ahead, downgrading its full-year...
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Business
IAG net profit up 170pc, economic conditions 'challenging'
Monday, 13 February 2023, 2:23pmNew Zealand’s largest insurer - Insurance Australia Group - has pushed up interim net profit by 170 per cent but its boss...
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Business
Winton Land downgrades full-year result: Floods hit sales, earthworks
Tuesday, 7 February 2023, 4:49pmJanuary’s floods prompted listed property specialist Winton Land to downgrade its annual result, the company saying it was...
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Business
Ten post-settlement iwi have $8.1b assets: new report
Monday, 6 February 2023, 9:55amThe biggest post-settlement iwi have a growing asset base, now estimated to be worth around $8.1 billion, but property revaluations...
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Emergency
Land, trees, slide down Ōwairaka/Mt Albert towards award-winning home
Sunday, 29 January 2023, 7:09pmPart of Ōwairaka/Mt Albert and a number of trees many metres tall have slid into two private properties, including an award-winning...
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National
'Not good at all': Swimming pool tumbles down cliff at controversial Bach Haven house
Sunday, 29 January 2023, 9:19amA Beach Haven swimming pool, water tanks and piles fell down the cliff towards the beach yesterday, leaving neighbours shocked...
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Business
How four retailers helped drive retail sales to record $1.7b
Tuesday, 24 January 2023, 2:55pmJD Sports, streetwear retailer Culture Kings NZ, fashion label Flo and Frankie and hands-on workshop Build-A-Bear have been...
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Business
$300m+ Bayswater Marina plans win consent
Monday, 19 December 2022, 2:31pmSimon and Paula Herbert’s scheme to develop 78 apartments on the landward area of the North Shore’s Bayswater Marina has...
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National
'Family shattered' after father's death in fall on work site
Monday, 7 November 2022, 1:51pmConstruction site scaffolder Michael Noche, killed at work on Friday, was a migrant from the Philippines and had been dreaming...
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National
Huge new meditation centre rises at Māngere
Thursday, 13 October 2022, 1:41pmConstruction of a vast new multi-million dollar religious centre on a 9 hectare Māngere site adjacent to historic Ōtuataua...
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Education
The bank that gave away its $150m farm to Mount Albert Grammar School
Monday, 3 October 2022, 4:43pmASB has given the $150 million Auckland city farm it owns to the school which has leased it for nearly a century. Vittoria...