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Dairy Owners Want Halt To Massive Tobacco Tax Hike

Thursday, 22 December 2022, 12:01 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

The Dairy and Business Owners’ Group is calling for a halt to the 7.2% ($130) hike in tobacco taxes on New Year’s Day, that’ll take taxes and GST on that tax, to a massive $1,930 a kilogram . “We urgently call on the government to halt this ... More >>

Dairy Death Demands Urgent Government Action On Dairy Safety

Thursday, 24 November 2022, 9:19 am | Dairy and Business Owners Group

Dairy and Business Owners are rallying around the friends and family of the dairy worker senselessly killed for just doing their job, almost a year to the day, after the Dairy and Business Owners’ Group warned the government that a dairy worker ... More >>

Omicron Business Package “A Con” After Checking The Fineprint

Wednesday, 23 February 2022, 12:37 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

The so-called targeted support payments to businesses struggling in the COVID-19 Red Traffic Light has been described as a con by hospitality members of the Dairy and Business Owners Group. “After reading the fineprint, does the government take ... More >>

Smokefree “Dairygeddon” Sees Call For Compensation And Greater Security

Thursday, 9 December 2021, 4:49 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

Dairy owners want compensation and a massive boost in security with the  end of cigarette sales being signalled. Something that will see crime  spike as black marketers rob stores for 'the good stuff' before  conventional ... More >>

Hairdressers This Week But 3 December Is A Cruel Twist For Hospitality

Tuesday, 23 November 2021, 6:44 am | Dairy and Business Owners Group

While there is finally a date, the Dairy and Business Owners Group takes issue that hospitality is being wrongly treated as a risk with hospitality businesses kicked way down the road to Friday 3 December. “We celebrate that hairdressers and barbers ... More >>

Dairies Won’t Close Doors To Kiwis While Hospitality Can’t Open Them

Monday, 15 November 2021, 5:17 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

While dairies will not close their doors to Kiwis unlike supermarkets and large retailers with looming vaccination certificates, hospitality remains shut despite schools, libraries, museums and retail all reopening in Auckland. “It’s a land ... More >>

PM Asked To Visit Hospitality Businesses In Auckland

Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 6:19 am | Dairy and Business Owners Group

A hospitality business has issued an open invitation to the Prime Minister to see for herself, the wringer that businesses in Auckland and Waikato are being put through. "It's nice to be praised for our sacrifice but it feels as like we are being ... More >>

Reopen Hospitality Now

Monday, 1 November 2021, 8:07 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

Step 2 in Waikato and a promised move next week to Step 2 in Auckland is not just long overdue, but retailers will need cafes and restaurants reopening to get shoppers back in numbers. "Retail and hospitality are peas in a pod," says Sunny ... More >>

90% Double Vaccination Target Is Business Purgatory

Friday, 22 October 2021, 6:05 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

The Dairy and Business Owners Group is giving the government’s 90% double vaccination requirement to fully reopen a big thumbs down. “For retail, hospitality and inner-city dairies this is absolute torture,” says Sunny Kaushal, Dairy and Business Owner’s ... More >>

Auckland At 'Alert Level Hotel California'

Tuesday, 5 October 2021, 9:02 am | Dairy and Business Owners Group

Hospitality and retail businesses remain gutted by yesterday’s decision to keep Auckland in a never-ending Alert Level 3 with the added uncertainty of 'Steps.' “For Auckland businesses, my own included, that decision represents 'Alert Level Hotel ... More >>

Dairies Tell The Commerce Commission They Can Deliver Cheaper Groceries

Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 11:31 am | Dairy and Business Owners Group

The Commerce Commission has been told that New Zealand’s 4,000 plus owner-operated dairies and service stations are the third way for both cheaper groceries and reduced car journey emissions. “As dairies are in Kaitaia to Bluff and in our biggest cities ... More >>

A ‘Level 2.5’ Will Put Taxpayers On The Dole

Monday, 6 September 2021, 9:13 am | Dairy and Business Owners Group

A ‘Level 2.5’ Will Cost Government Billions And Put Taxpayers On The Dole Ahead of a Cabinet decision later today on Covid Alert Levels outside  of Auckland, the Dairy and Business Owners Group is warning that Otago  University proposals for ... More >>

Dairies Get Vaccination Priority As Crime Spikes

Saturday, 28 August 2021, 4:12 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

As New Zealand prepares for split Covid Alert Levels 3 and 4, dairy owners, workers and family members have been granted vaccination  priority as dairy owners deal with the worst and best parts of New Zealand society. “We wish to give a bouquet ... More >>

Dairies Left In The Cold As ‘Essential Workers’

Monday, 23 August 2021, 1:45 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

Despite writing to the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, dairy owners have had no contact regarding vaccinations as essential workers. More >>

Dairies Step Up In The Lockdown

Thursday, 19 August 2021, 1:47 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

As New Zealand’s 4,000 owner-operated dairies and service stations step up as essential businesses during the current lockdown, they are asking for enhanced Police support as well as Covid-19 vaccination priority. More >>

Owners Of Dairies And Service Stations Welcome Tobacco Robbery Study

Tuesday, 10 August 2021, 3:22 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

Hundreds of dairy and service station owners will agree with a study led by Dr Marewa Glover that there is a link between hikes in the tobacco excise tax and robberies. “We thank Dr Glover and her team at the Centre of Research Excellence Indigenous ... More >>

Business Extinction Rebellion

Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:49 pm | Dairy and Business Owners Group

The Dairy and Business Owners Group is calling on retailers,  restaurateurs and business owners to stand for council election in  2022 as part of a ‘business extinction rebellion.’ “You have to wonder if councillors and council ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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