Business & Markets

New online property auction site

Tauranga is the first location in the country to test a new online property auction site. Locally-owned website PropFi gives house-hunters the option of bidding... Read More

12 consumer tips for Christmas

Instead of twelve days of Christmas, or twelve nights of Christmas, the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has launched the Twelve Consumer Tips... Read More

Scathing lesson from former councillor

City councillors' first working meeting of the triennium started with them receiving a good telling off over the council decision in September to order the felling... Read More

Zespri’s $40M new look revealed

Plans for Zespri's new Mount Maunganui offices are being made public today following their approval by the Zespri Board. The three-storey complex will stand in... Read More

The Bay’s boom continues

Unemployment down? Tick. GDP, retail spending, construction, and population growth up? Tick, tick, tick and tick. Latest quarterly figures released this week show... Read More

Lifejacket promo launches

A national lifejacket promotion to get more kiwi wearing lifejackets is being launched in a joint venture by Maritime New Zealand and Rebel Sports. With half of... Read More

Fonterra elections voting closes soon

Fonterra Shareholders' Council chairman Duncan Coull is urging the co-operative's farmer Shareholders to get behind the new elections process. With voting in Fonterra's... Read More

Zespri wins top 200 award

Mount Maunganui-based kiwifruit marketer Zespri won the 2016 Deloitte Top 200 business award for Most Improved Performance at a black tie dinner in Auckland last... Read More

New toolkit tells Waikato’s Story

The Waikato Story - a toolkit of resources to help promote and drive economic growth in the region - has been launched by Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce... Read More

Italian growers visit Kiwi orchards

The techniques used by New Zealand kiwifruit orchardists have come under close scrutiny this week, from a group of 15 Italian growers and post-harvest technicians... Read More

Discipline key to surviving asset bubble

A Tauranga investment expert is cautioning investors - and the public - to be wary of a 'time of pain” once interest rates begin to rise. James Clague says... Read More

Cake for 20,000 in Papamoa

Instead of speeches they had cake. The official opening of the Papamoa Plaza food court was non-traditional and for the community, says plaza manager David Hill. 'The... Read More