Meat Acts: The New Zealand Meat Industry 1972-1999

“An absorbing story of the meat industry” (Peter Owens – Eastern Media)                                  

Go behind the scenes of New Zealand meat company and ownership changes and the company and Meat Board politics in the 1970s through to the 1990s.

Read about the secret manoeuvres and surprise takeovers, the dividend windfalls and dramatic changes of fortune.

Trace the hidden hand of the bankers, politicians and other industry masterminds … and fight the procurement wars all over again.

All this and more in Meat Acts: The NZ Meat Industry 1972-1999 by Mick Calder and Janet Tyson. First published by Fraser Books in 1999 and newly digitised as an eBook in 2022.

ISBN: 978-1-99-116441-4