3 Mar 2025

Canadian private equity billionaire takes stake in NZME

2:20 pm on 3 March 2025
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Auckland-based Canadian private equity billionaire has taken a more than 9.3 percent stake in media company NZME.

Jim Grenon is the founder of Calgary-based TOM Capital.

He has interests in the media publication, The Centrist, and its sister website NZNE.

Last week NZME reported a full year net loss after taking a non-cash writedown of $24 million on its publishing assets, along with a drop in underlying profit.

A number of high profile senior reporters will leave NZME's New Zealand Herald under its restructure to cut about 30 roles from the newspaper's editorial team.

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