Tokoroa’s tough year was about much more than job losses
- Written by Fiona Hurd, Associate Professor, Marketing & International Business, Auckland University of Technology
Ingolfson via Wikimedia CommonsFor 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...





