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Tokoroa’s tough year was about much more than job losses

  • Written by Fiona Hurd, Associate Professor, Marketing & International Business, Auckland University of Technology
Tokoroa’s tough year was about much more than job lossesIngolfson via Wikimedia Commons

For Kinleith Mill, cycles of new owners, restructuring and retrenchment have been a fact of life since the 1980s. Each ownership change and downsizing has affected the mill’s workforce – and, inevitably, the Tokoroa community.

In July this year, foreign-owned Oji Fibre Solutions closed the mill’s...

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