Senior appointments at Kina Securities, a new Director for the PNG Cocoa Board, a new Acting Managing Director at Airports Corporation, and a new Poultry Manager at Mainland Holdings
People moves: Kina Securities, PNG Cocoa Board, National Airports Corporation, Mainland Holdings
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SME policy launch reflects growing realisation that Papua New Guinea cannot rely solely on the resources sector
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2 Mar 2016 by 8 Comments
The launch of the country’s first master plan to develop the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) sector reflects a growing acknowledgment by Cabinet ministers that they need to grow sectors other than mining.
In brief: Papua New Guinea government suspends vegetable import ban, and other business stories
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27 Jan 2016 by
Ban imported vegetables suspended for three months, Mainland CEO calls for tougher bio security measures, and Oil Search confident, despite low oil prices. Your weekly digest of the latest business news.
Papua New Guinea Manufacturers’ Council calls poultry ban ‘premature’
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13 May 2015 by 3 Comments
The Manufacturers’ Council has described the ban on some uncooked poultry products from Australia as ‘premature’, and called for the ban to be lifted.
In brief: O’Neill declares PNG moving towards a new regime of ‘managed economic growth’ and other business stories.
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3 Sep 2014 by
A new approach to managing PNG’s economy, Manus Island detention centre to be ‘wound down’, and PNG cricketers turning professional. Your weekly digest of the latest regional business news.
Papua New Guinea’s manufacturers seek level playing field on cheap imports
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4 Feb 2014 by 1 Comment
Cheap imports into Papua New Guinea are posing an increasing threat to local producers, with reports of foreign companies ‘dumping’ goods in PNG or under-declaring the value of imports.
How climate change will affect Papua New Guinea
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10 Apr 2013 by 2 Comments
Bob Hansen, MD of major agribusiness Mainland Holdings, considers the threats and opportunities to Papua New Guinea from climate change.
Nasfund turnaround due to improved investment performance: Tarutia
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27 Mar 2013 by
PNG’s largest superannuation fund, Nasfund, released its annual results earlier this month. Business Advantage PNG spoke with its Chief Executive Officer Ian Tarutia.
The inside view: Mainland’s recovery
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1 Sep 2012 by
Bob Hansen, appointed Mainland’s Chief Executive Officer in May 2012, provides an insight into the challenges the company is facing, and outlines a strategy to place it on a sustainable and profitable footing. Mainland has between 2000 and 2500 employees, plus we have four hundred smallholder growers on our books, and we’ve got a turnover […]
Lae: Papua New Guinea’s manufacturing hub
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PNG’s second-largest city is the focal point for the nation’s downstream processing industries. Although it plays second fiddle to the national capital Port Moresby, Lae in Morobe Province is PNG’s industrial capital and boasts considerable activity in manufacturing, trading, agribusiness and, more recently, fisheries. Lae: the facts Despite being the second city in a country […]
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