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Fonterra will focus on 'tier three' and 'four' cities in its bid to double sales in China in the next five years to $10 billion per annum, chief executive says.

Winston Peters' office loves to bag the dairy industry and Fonterra, mostly for all the wrong reasons.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson says dairy prices are expected to firm up early next year.

Fonterra shareholders will be watching hawk-eyed this week's annual general meeting in Waitoa.

A former Fonterra farmer director is warning that moves to downsize the co-op's board is fraught with risk.

A former chief executive of Australian dairy processor National Foods and Waikato dairy farmer Ashley Waugh has been elected to the Fonterra Board of Directors.

Fonterra Shareholders' Council chairman, Duncan Coull, says record breaking efforts of shareholders saw 65% of farms, representing 73% of milksolids, cast their votes.

A one litre cream product sold to kitchens, restaurants and bakeries all through Asia and China is a real growth market, says Fonterra's operations manager Canpac, Russell Muir.

Your old mate notes that Greenpeace is challenging Fonterra to "prove that its massive use of palm products is not fuelling the enormous fires raging across Indonesia".

Fonterra's return on capital sits at the bottom end of the range of returns of other global dairy co-ops, says the Shareholders Council.