Foreign investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand
2013
Overseas Investment Office – Decisions
Commentary and Index prepared by CAFCA
(Note: the OIO decisions quoted here can be viewed here.)
Contents
January 2013 decisions
Americans To Buy UK Controlled Endace; Koreans Buy 1,000 Hectare Forest In Waihopai Valley; And Swiss Buys Into 1471 Hectare Ruakaka Station, Gisborne; Other January Decisions
February 2013 decisions
Rayonier Takes Control Of Matariki Forests; Elworthy Sells Craigmore Farming; Westpac Cheapens Its New Zealand Funding Arrangements; Italians Now Interested In Our Forests; While Germans Grab 1,000 Hectare Farm Near Te Kuiti; Fletchers Plan Residential Development In Greenhithe; Aussies Grab NZ Wool Services Ltd; But Sell The Lake Grassmere Salt Farm; Confidential Decision
March 2013 decisions
New Chinese-Owned Infant Formula Plant For Morven; And A Chinese Milk Powder Plant For Pokeno; NZ Super Fund Sells 14,000 Hectares To Chinese Government; Harvard Expands Its Central Otago Dairy Empire; And OceanaGold Expands Its Central Otago Mining Empire; Origin Sells Waihapa Energy Assets To Canadians; South Pacific Pictures Sold To Overseas Interests; Aussies Get Retrospective Permission To Buy FleetPartners; Other March Decisions
April 2013 decisions
EnviroWaste Changes Hands; Harvard Restructures Its Kaingaroa Forest Investment; Chinese Buy Otuwhero Wines; Russian Gets Retrospective Consent For Waiwera Water; Another Ownership Restructure Of Walter Peak Station; Germans Grab Another Farm; Swiss Increases The Size Of His Mataka Station; Other April Decisions
May 2013 decisions
Swiss Buy Controlling Stake In Ebos; Buffett Has An Appetite For Heinz; MYOB Expands; James Cameron Expands His Wairarapa Empire; Retirement Village Planned Next To Lower Hutt Golf Course; Residential Development Planned For South Auckland Golf Course; Chinese To Build New Geothermal Power Station Near Taupo; Tegel Sells And Leases Back A Number Of Properties; No 1 Queen St Sold; Other May Decisions
June 2013 decisions
Aussie-Controlled Ingham Poultry Changes Hands; Canadians Buy Taipoi Forest; James Cameron Gradually Acquiring A Titanic Wairarapa Land Holding; Other June Decisions
July 2013 decisions
“Confidential”, Chinese Buy 1,116 Ha On Karikari Peninsula; Another High Country Station Sold, This Time Ben Avon Station; And Brits Shuffle Ownership Of Allflex; Blakely Pacific Expands Forest Empire In Waimana
August 2013 decisions
Americans Buy 27,000 Hectare Mt Pember Station; Americans Buy 4,000 Hectare Lilydale Station For Just $865 Per Hectare; Woolworths Makes An Ezibuy; Lenders Take Control Of Mediaworks; Hart Sells Another 500 Hectares To The Swedes; Other August Decisions
September 2013 decisions
Dutch buy a half share of 23,471 acres; The Trust Company is “perpetually” Australian; Tag Oil sells Opunake Hydro to fellow Canadians; Hong Kong interests buy Marlborough vineyard; And Aussies grab another Marlborough vineyard; Other September Decisions
October 2013 decisions
Bathurst buys 240 hectares at Waimangaroa; Talley’s joint venture buys additional fish quota; Thermo Fisher Scientific buys Life Technologies; Germans buy Vehicle Testing Group from the MTA; A further Aussie share shuffle of The Trust Company; Pasta moguls buy large Rakaia dairy farm; And English buy several Southland dairy farms; Other October Decisions
November 2013 decisions
Australians Grab 42% Of Powerco; Office Depot Buys OfficeMax; Further Restructuring Of GFC WMDs; Aussies To Buy Cooperative Bank Mortgages; Two More Otago Farms Sold Overseas; Japanese Control Of Five Star Beef Diluted; English To Expand Boutique Waiheke Island Vineyard; Americans To Establish Another Redwood Forest; Aussie Buys Perpetual Trust; Other November Decisions
December 2013 decisions
English Take Control Of Fullers; Aussies Grab More Of Elders; Bathurst Buys A Cranberry Farm; Swedes Buy The Late Sir Peter Tapsell’s Farm; Craigmore Buys Another Otago Dairy Farm; Other December Decisions
Numbers of deleted or released decisions before appeal
| Jan 2013 | Feb 2013 | Mar 2013 | Apr 2013 | May 2013 | Jun 2013 | Jul 2013 | Aug 2013 | Sep 2013 | Oct 2013 | Nov 2013 | Dec 2013 | Total 2013 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deletions | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 41 |
| Approvals | 4 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 116 |
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