Business & Markets

NZ marks milestone with EU trade negotiations

New Zealand and the European Union have formally launched negotiations for a trade agreement. The EU Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström said today was... Read More

Mexico signals interest in supplying Australasia

Early moves by Mexico's avocado producers to enter the Australasian market is a timely reminder about the benefits of supporting market development in Asia, says... Read More

Father’s ashes found among cottage cheese

They say you always find the thing you're looking in the last place you'd ever look - and for one Oropi woman that place is the cottage cheese section of a local... Read More

Bunnings in $11m holiday payout

Hardware retailer Bunnings says it will pay more than $11 million to current and past staff members for miscalculating holiday pay. The Australian-owned firm said... Read More

Bayfair’s first $115m development milestone

Bayfair Shopping Centre recently celebrated its $115 million development project hitting a major milestone with the completion of Countdown's new roof. The... Read More

Te Puke company expands into South Island

Te Puke company Flare Fires is to begin manufacturing fires in Cromwell. Flare Fires has been operating in Te Puke for more than nine years with its solid masonry... Read More

Tauranga Crossing amongst nation’s ‘hottest’

Tauranga Crossing has been named as one of the nation's ‘hottest' up and coming businesses, after taking home the title of People's Choice Award for Hottest... Read More

Calls to submit on proposed visitor levy

Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick says the Government's proposed international visitor levy will be of major interest locally and she is encouraging local sectors to... Read More

Cleaning up the kiwifruit industry

'Kiwifruit picking - why on earth would you?” A seasoned picker and pruner is slamming the industry which has employed him for 35 years. And which,... Read More

Payment delays may affect airport

A delay in Ministry of Transport payments for Whakatane Airport operating losses and approved capital works projects, together with a potential lack of funding... Read More

Peters: ’Heads should roll’ at Fonterra

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has swung in behind his MP Shane Jones, joining him in savaging Fonterra and its chairperson. Mr Jones - who is Regional... Read More

Hundreds of jobs on the line at Spark

Hundreds of jobs are likely to go as telecommunications company Spark reorganises its back office to save costs. About 1900 people in the company, or 40 percent... Read More