New Zealand

Super Fund shops for Kiwi businesses
- NZ Herald
- 27 May 2010
The NZ Super Fund is "going hard" on the acquisition trail for stakes in prime New Zealand assets like rural land, state-owned enterprises, smaller high-growth companies and iwi businesses.
NZ: German investors buying up farmland
- Southland Times
- 18 May 2010
A German investment fund that bought a majority interest in a Southland dairy farm, Aquila Capital's AgrarInvest, also has shareholdings in three other Kiwi dairy companies.
Roman Rosslenbroich: Way ahead of the alternatives crowd
- Financial Times
- 02 May 2010
Mr Rosslenbroich is particularly enthusiastic about agriculture, where he says Aquila has “teams travelling the world looking for farms”, with New Zealand dairy farms a speciality.
Farmers may be reluctant to sell
- Otago Daily Times
- 15 April 2010
Southern NZ farmers will want to see cash before agreeing to sell their farms to a foreign company again, having been burnt once by a deal that turned sour.
Fran O'Sullivan: Fear-mongering doesn't compute
- NZ Herald
- 14 April 2010
Someone needs to put Fonterra and the Feds into the same room.
Firm eyes 100 farms in South
- Otago Daily Times
- 14 April 2010
The Chinese-backed company seeking to buy 29 North Island dairy farms is also trying to buy up to 100 farms in Otago and Southland and build a dairy factory in Southland.
Land ahoy!
- Otago Daily Times
- 05 April 2010
There is serious overseas interest in acquiring New Zealand farmland, and some confusion in the rules and regulations surrounding the process.
A land grab, or just free trade?
- NZ Workers Party
- 03 April 2010
The economic nationalism and calls for protectionism seem ironic given the fact that Fonterra itself is a large multinational, which in addition to having farms in China, has since 2002 been in partnership with global food giant Nestle in the Dairy Partners Americas.
Foreign investors again eye NZ farms
- Otago Daily Times
- 30 Mar 2010
Southern Pastures, registered in Auckland, is seeking $500 million from local and offshore investors to initially buy outright, or controlling shares in, farming concerns throughout the southern hemisphere, but with a bias towards New Zealand.
Chinese buyup of NZ dairy farms: Get used to it. This is what a “free” trade agreement looks like
- CAFCA
- 25 Mar 2010
The most unbelievably naïve reaction to the news that a mysterious Chinese company is hoping to buy up to $1.5 billion worth of dairy farms came from Federated Farmers, which said that this is an “unintended consequence” of the NZ/China Free Trade Agreemen
Chinese bid for NZ dairy creates concern
- TVNZ
- 25 Mar 2010
"The Chinese want a secure food supply, and they're coming into New Zealand to do that, by the look of it," a local farm union official says
Crafar Farms sold to Chinese company
- NZPA
- 24 Mar 2010
The China Jin Hui Mining Corporation - recently renamed Natural Dairy (NZ) Holdings - says it has agreed to buy the Crafar family farms as well as other assets including farmland, cattle, and milkpowder production plant.