Business & Markets

Eyes on NZ Oil and Gas

There is market focus on New Zealand Oil and Gas with results due on its performance pertaining to the Pike River coal mine. This mine was the site of an explosion... Read More

Some book vouchers okay

Booksellers NZ is today assuring the public that the Whitcoulls' group voluntary administration will not affect Booksellers' tokens. Booksellers NZ Book Tokens are... Read More

Auckland expansion for Port

Port of Tauranga is establishing a container packing and unpacking facility in Auckland in a joint venture with its associate companies Tapper Transport and C3 Limited. The... Read More

Opportunities in dark hours

The protests in Egypt are having an impact on oil prices, with increasing tensions driving it up and when there is a calming they reduce. Egypt is a key infrastructure... Read More

Crutches running in final contest

Twelve years in the world and already a business entrepreneur, Georgia Coughlan is competing in a popularity contest with her crutches invention. The Tauranga Intermediate... Read More

Interest rates to stay

Interest rates seem likely to remain low, until at least September, with finance sector experts all anticipating slow progress in the economy. This is based on a... Read More

Comvita to appeal UK finding

Paengaroa based bee product business Comvita is being instructed to pay court costs of up to £400,000 (NZ$835,000) to Brightwake Plc. An interim payment of... Read More

New regional HANZ boss

Astrid Fisher is the new upper northern North Island regional manager for the Hospitality Association of New Zealand. HANZ chief executive Bruce Robertson announced... Read More

‘Mondayising’ public holidays

Tauranga insurance advisory practice, Financial Independence, is giving its staff the day off on February 14 to compensate for this year's missed public holidays. This... Read More

BOP FM in liquidation

Tauranga radio station BOP FM is in liquidation as listed on the NZ Companies Office website. The radio station went into liquidation on January 27, the day after... Read More

BSHL: early trading quiet

First trading for Building Society Holdings Limited began this week. This is the merger of a couple of building societies including Southern Cross and Marac Finance. Early... Read More

Greerton Mainstreet manager gone

Greerton Mainstreet manager Graeme Morrissey is gone without working out a month's notice having earlier tendered his resignation.Graeme Morrissey is not serving... Read More