Solar Farms This is a recent example of the steady growth of solar farms throughout the country. This is a new form of energy but…
Buying Up Holiday Parks This company has been quietly but steadily buying up holiday parks around the country in recent years. The OIO has approved Tasman…
Burning Rubbish This is the controversial proposal to build a rubbish incinerator (a waste to energy plant) near Waimate in South Canterbury. It has spawned…
Woollies Buying Up Land Under Standing Consent Supermarkets don’t often appear in the OIO Decisions, yet they are among NZ’s biggest and most essential businesses,…
Global Merger Creates Agribusiness Giant The OIO approved Bunge Global SA United States of America (70%), United Kingdom (8%) Various (22%) buying up to 100% of the…
“Takeover Creates NZ’s Biggest Fisheries Company” The OIO approved Sealord Group Limited New Zealand (50%) Japan (37%), Various (13%) buying Independent Fisheries Holdings Limited (IFHL), Independent Fisheries Limited…
“Goodbye, Freddie” November provides quite a contrast to October – a lot less Decisions, none declined, and absolutely none featuring Ministerial Decisions. Probably everything to…
Labour’s Last Hurrah October 2023 was election month and a highly unusual one in the annals of the OIO. To quote from its monthly newsletter:…
Digital Transnationals Another Microsoft Data Centre In Auckland Forestry IKEA Buying Up Land For Forestry Overseas Investment Office Standing Consents Standing Consents UK Private Equity…
Banks ‘How bad does it have to get?’ BNZ record profit prompts call for inquiry ANZ posts half-year profit of more than $1 billion, up…
DJ Software: US Company Complains About Japanese One Buying NZ One Alpha Theta Corporation (Japan 81%, US 8%, UK 6% and Various 5%) has been given…
Here’s A Rarity: Ministers Decline Application The Minister for Land Information and the Associate Minister of Finance declined an application from Port Blakely Limited (United States of…
Booze Transnationals Continue Wine Industry Buy Up Cloudy Bay Vineyards Limited (France 66% United Kingdom 34%) has approval for the acquisition of a leasehold interest in…
NZ’s Largest Egg Producer Sold RF CorVal NZ Pty Ltd (as trustee for RF CorVal NZ Sub Trust 2 and RF CorVal NZ Sub Trust…
Shake-Up In Swiss Banking Reaches NZ The OIO approved UBS Group AG Registered shares: (Switzerland 20.6%) (Europe, Middle East and Africa 16%) (Americas 9.8%), (Asia Pacific 1%)…