Fairfax sells NZ assets for $200m

Original article by Jake Mitchell, Daniel Palmer
The Australian – Page: 21 : 8-Sep-16

Australian-listed Fairfax Media will have a 41 per cent stake in NZME if a deal to sell its New Zealand media assets to the APN News & Media spin-off proceeds. The proposed deal is worth $A200m in total, including a cash payment of $NZ55m ($A53.5m). It must be approved by shareholders and New Zealand’s competition regulator, which is slated to issue a draft determination in November 2016 and a final decision in March 2017.

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