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New Zealand Newspapers contains the complete text of 19 of New Zealand's most important newspapers, including the three key newspapers The Press, The Dominion Post, and the Sunday Star-Times. All three newspapers are published by Fairfax New Zealand Limited, New Zealand's largest newspaper publishing company.
The Press is a daily (Monday-Saturday) newspaper published in Christchurch. It has the largest circulation and most comprehensive coverage of news in the South Island of New Zealand.
The Dominion Post is a daily (Monday-Saturday) newspaper published in Wellington. It covers major news in the Wellington region as well as in the lower half of the North Island and Auckland through staff located in Palmerston North, Masterton, Hastings and Auckland. The Dominion Post was judged News Zealand's best daily newspaper in the 2002 Quantas Media Awards.
The Sunday Star-Times is produced in Auckland and is New Zealand's leading Sunday newspaper.
USE FILE 755to research news concerning New Zealand and the surrounding Pacific Rim region. USE /TI,LP,DEto help narrow a search for a specific topic. SELECT POLLUTION/DI,TI,LPUSE RANK JNto determine what papers cover a story: SELECT ECONOMIC(W)GROWTHRANK JN USE SH=to search and display newspaper sections. EXPAND SH=FASHIONSELECT E4 |
Coverage includes:
| Dates Covered: | January 1995 to the present |
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| File Size: | 1,648,274 records as of July 2008 |
| Update Frequency: | Daily |
| ACRONYM | CATEGORY NAME |
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| ASIANEWS | Asia/Pacific News |
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| File 755:New Zealand Newspapers 1995-2003/Jul 20 | |
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| AA= | 01042841 TDP0307122031-BCEDDY-ED (THIS IS THE FULLTEXT) |
| TI=, /TI | Takeover battle for Cedenco looms |
| AU= | WILLIAMS Alan |
| JN=, ED=, PG= | THE DOMINION POST , 2 ed, colC, p3 |
| PD=, PY= | 12 JUL 2003 |
| JC= | JOURNAL CODE: TDP RECORD TYPE: FULLTEXT |
| WORD COUNT: 00000504 | |
| TEXT: | |
| /LP, /TX | MINORITY shareholders seem certain to resist a takeover offer for Cedenco |
| Foods by the American majority owner. | |
| California-based SK Foods International said yesterday it would offer 205 | |
| cents a share for the 41 per cent of the Gisborne-based pumpkin and sweet | |
| corn growing and processing company that it does not already own. | |
| /TX | Minority shareholders called the offer price opportunist and an opening |
| bid. The company's net tangible asset backing is about 211c a share, | |
| and it has low debt. | |
| "It is too cheap and it will be hard yakka for them at that price," one | |
| longstanding and significant shareholder said in Christchurch yesterday. | |
| "We should keep some of it in New Zealand hands." | |
| Cedenco shares last sold at 170c and did not trade yesterday. They had | |
| been about the 200c mark before the directors said in early February that | |
| there would be no dividends for at least three years, as they focused on | |
| pursuing growth opportunities. | |
| James Smalley, a client adviser at Hamilton Hindin Greene in Christchurch, | |
| said yesterday that Cedenco shares had been trading at 220c before announcement | |
| of record earnings of nearly 28c a share in the year to September 30, 2001. | |
| Earnings in the 2002 year were 26c. "That is another 54c a share of value added | |
| to the company in that time but the shareholders have seen nothing. It makes the | |
| offer opportunist." | |
| Like Shotover Jet last year, when a low takeover bid by controlling | |
| shareholder Ngai Tahu was resisted, Cedenco has a strong group of investors | |
| in the top 20 on the register. | |
| A large-scale Gisborne lettuce grower, Murray McPhail, has built up a | |
| 10.3 per cent holding, including shares at above the offer price, and on | |
| his own would be able to prevent a full takeover by SK Foods, which needs a | |
| 90 per cent ownership threshold before it could compulsorily acquire the | |
| balance of the shares. Mr McPhail said the takeover notice came as a | |
| surprise. "We haven't got an opinion at this time, and are considering the | |
| options." | |
| Other shareholders say he had built up his stake with the objective of | |
| stopping SK Foods getting full ownership cheaply. | |
| In its notice of takeover, SK Foods said no minimum acceptance level | |
| would be set. | |
| "They just want to pick up as many as they can," Mr Smalley said. SK | |
| Foods had been buying shares in the market about 170c, he said. | |
| In February, Cedenco Foods said the 2003 year profit was likely to be | |
| lower than last year's $4.05 million, but Mr Smalley said the breaking of | |
| the drought in Australia would now be helping the tomato-growing business | |
| in Victoria, in which Cedenco and SK are joint-venture partners. | |
| SK Foods bought its controlling stake from Brierley Investments at | |
| 152c a share in mid 2001, and yesterday managing director Scott Salyer said | |
| SK Foods had driven material change at Cedenco, bringing about a | |
| significant increase in shareholder value. | |
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| /CP | CAPTIONS: Under control: Cedenco processing plant _ a takeover bid for the |
| company is likely to be resisted. | |
| Copyright, Wellington Newspapers Limited 2003, All rights | |
| reserved. | |
| LANGUAGE: ENGLISH | |
| SH=, /SH | SECTION HEADING: BUSINESS |
| /CO, CO= | COMPANY NAMES (DIALOG GENERATED): Brierley Investments ; Cedenco Foods ; |
| SK Foods International | |
| /DE | DESCRIPTORS: MERGERS AND TAKEOVERS |
| SEARCH SUFFIX |
DISPLAY CODE |
FIELD NAME |
INDEXING |
SELECT EXAMPLES |
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| None | None | All Basic Index Fields | Word | S NEW(W)ZEALAND AND FOOD? |
| /CO | CO | Company Name1,2 | Word | S CEDENCO(W)FOODS/CO |
| /CP | CP | Caption | Word | S CEDENCO(1N)PROCESSING/CP |
| /DE | DE | Descriptor3 | Word & Phrase |
S MERGERS(2W)TAKEOVERS/DE S MERGERS?/DE |
| /LP | LP | Lead Paragraph | Word | S RESIST(1W)TAKEOVER?/LP |
| /NM | NM | Named Person2 | Word | S MURRAY(2N)MCPHAIL/NM |
| /SH | SH | Section Heading2 | Word | S BUSINESS/SH |
| /TI | TI | Title | Word | S TAKEOVER(3W)CEDENCO/TI |
| /TX | TX | Text | Word | S GISBORNE AND CORN/TX |
2 Displays only in Format 9, when available.
3 Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.
| SEARCH PREFIX |
DISPLAY CODE |
FIELD NAME |
INDEXING |
SELECT EXAMPLES |
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| AA= | AA | Supplier Accession Number | Phrase | S AA= TDP0307122031-BCEDDY-ED |
| None | AN | DIALOG Accession Number | ||
| AU= | AU | Author/Byline | Word | S AU=(GEDDES(1N)ASHLEY) |
| CO= | CO | Company Name1,2 | Phrase | S CO=CEDENCO FOODS/? |
| ED= | ED | Edition | Phrase | S ED=2 |
| JC= | JC | Newspaper Code | Phrase | S JC=TDP |
| JN= | JN | Newspaper Name | Phrase | S JN=DOMINION POST |
| NM= | NM | Named Person2 | Phrase | S NM=SIMMONS NANCY? |
| PD= | PD | Publication Date | Phrase | S PD=20030712 |
| PG= | PG | Page Number | Phrase | S PG=3 |
| PY= | PY | Publication Year | Phrase | S PY=2003 |
| SH= | SH | Section Heading2 | Phrase | S SH=BUSINESS |
| None | SO | Source Citation4 | ||
| UD= | None | Update | Phrase | S UD=9999 |
| None | WD | Word Count |
4 Includes Newspaper Name, Publication Date, Edition, Section Heading, and Page Number.
| Sets and terms can be restricted by Basic Index suffixes, i.e., /CO-1, /CP, /DE, /LP, /NM, /SH, /TI, /TX (e.g., S S2/TI), as well as by the following features: | ||
| SUFFIX | FIELD NAME | EXAMPLES |
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| / | DIALOG Accession Number | S S3/0010000-99999999 |
| /LONG | Articles of 1,000 words or more | S S8/LONG |
| /SHORT | Articles less than 1,000 words | S S9/SHORT |
| /YYYY | Publication Year | S S2/1997 |
| SORTABLE FIELDS | EXAMPLES |
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| AA, AU, JN, PD, PY, TI | SORT S5/ALL/PY,D |
| RANK FIELDS | EXAMPLES |
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| All phrase- and numeric-indexed fields in the Additional Indexes can be ranked. Other RANK codes include: DE | RANK DE |
| User-defined formats can be specified using the display codes indicated in the Search Options tables. | TYPE S4/TI,DE/1-5 |
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| 1 | -- | DIALOG Accession Number |
| 2 | -- | Full Record except Text |
| 3 | Medium | Bibliographic Citation and Word Count |
| 4 | -- | Bibliographic Citation, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count |
| 5 | Long | Bibliographic Citation, Indexing, Lead Paragraph, and Word Count |
| 6 | Free | Title, Publication Date, and Word Count |
| 7 | -- | Bibliographic Citation and Text |
| 8 | Short | Title, Publication Date, Word Count, and Indexing |
| 9 | Full | Full Record |
| K | -- | KWIC (Key Word In Context) displays a window of text; may be used alone or with other formats |
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| DIALOG Accession Number | TYPE 00169285/9 PRINT 00114766/9 |
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