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Co-op Advocacy :
New Zealand
Getting Rid of Investors in New Zealand
Oct 3, 2010 - 12:28:21 PM
“Cooperatives need to be owned by their members, not investors,” says Cooperatives Association chairperson Peter Macdougall
News that the new Wool Partners Cooperative Ltd will be buying out shares owned by PGG Wrightson in Wool Partners International to form a farmer-owned cooperative comes just one day after Bay of Plenty kiwifruit co-ops Eastpack and Satara announced their intention to merge, and that they will be buying out Satara’s investor shareholders.
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Co-op Advocacy :
New Zealand
New Zealand Co-operatives Equity Fight
Jun 13, 2010 - 8:02:42 PM
Ramsey Margolis
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Since 2003 New Zealand co-operatives have been fighting against proposed changes to International Accountancy Standards (IAS) that would reclassify co-operative shares as debt instead of equity - according to the New Zealand Co-operatives Association's Executive Director, Ramsey Margolis
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Co-op Advocacy :
New Zealand
Chinese co-ops first to step through NZ trade treaty door
Apr 7, 2008 - 3:42:26 PM
China's cooperatives are wasting no time. Just three days after the signing of the free trade agreement between New Zealand and China, a delegation from the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (ACFSMC) will be arriving in Wellington to talk trade with New Zealand cooperatives. Read the New Zealand Cooperatives Association news release.
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Co-op Education
.coop in the Pacific region
Mar 6, 2008 - 10:36:55 PM
The New Zealand Cooperatives Association is now responsible for .coop sales in the Pacific region which includes Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China and the nations and territories of the Pacific.
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