Business & Markets

Dairy industry award winners look to future

The major winners in the 2020 Bay of Plenty Dairy Industry Awards, Adam and Maria Barkla, hope their win will portray dairy farming as a professional career choice... Read More

Sir Paul Adams – How to fix the housing crisis

Leading Bay of Plenty property developer and philanthropist Sir Paul Adams says New Zealand is facing its biggest residential land and housing crisis in recent... Read More

What‘s on - death cafe, water fight, water cricket

Kia ora and welcome to Saturday. Morena koutou! Me koa te ra. Today we are expecting a mainly fine day with southeasterlies, gradually tending northerly, and... Read More

Greerton goes green for St Paddy’s Day today

It's nearly time to don your green, grab your ginger wigs and head into Greerton to celebrate the best of Ireland for St Patrick's Day. The Greerton St Paddy's... Read More

Is the steel colossus awakening?

It's now been revealed that foundation strengthening will also be required to fix the stalled Harington Street carpark building. About a year after construction... Read More

Living life from out of the garden

It's taken 16 years to get Jizzy and Mike Green's garden looking the way it does today. When they first moved in, it was a blank canvas with just grass and five... Read More

Bunnings recalls Trailerpro trailers

Owners of Bunnings Trailpro trailers are being urged to respond to a product safety recall. Bunnings has initiated a product safety recall of all Trailpro... Read More

Food and beverage industry tops $71.7 billion

A new report has found the food and beverage industry had a combined total revenue of $71.7 billion in the last financial year and is ripe for growth with companies... Read More

Tauranga Airport soars above all others

Another milestone and another accolade for Tauranga Airport - domestic travelers think it's the best. Tauranga's the eighth busiest airport in the country, the... Read More

Whakatāne to get $36.8m funding boost

More than $36 million will be invested into waterfront and visitor projects that will 'transform” Whakatane and wider Eastern Bay of Plenty region. Minister... Read More

Medicine sales skyrocket for AFT Pharmaceuticals

Hospitals and customers stockpiling cold and influenza medicine is boosting revenue for New Zealand drug company AFT Pharmaceuticals. The company supplies pharmacies... Read More

Petrol drives up household transport spending

While Kiwis may love their road trip and getting out in the weekend, that may change after information released by Statistics New Zealand this week. An increasing... Read More