On Dec 14, 2005, at 8:06 AM, graywolf wrote:
The problem is that huge conglomerate corporations make so much untaxed money and have virtually unlimited credit so they can absorb just about anything that comes on the market making them even bigger.
Not so long ago one of our big brewing corporates decided to close the original plant of a smallish West Coast brewery they'd absorbed, and shift all production to Auckland (our biggest city), where much of the product was already being made.
The resulting nationwide public backlash ensured the original plant's continuation and South Island residents continued to get proper West Coast beer :)
- Dave
