Snapshot: SME business confidence on the rise
Confidence amongst New Zealand’s SMEs is improving and more businesses are expecting to see growth in the next 12 months, according...
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Impact Fund invests in mussel farm
An estimated 230 new jobs will be created in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and future employees’ social and educational needs will be a top...
Opportunity knocks in volatile employment landscape
For businesses and job seekers who are prepared to adapt, the recession and an unemployment rate predicted to double by the end of 2020 can...
Where does humanity live within your digital strategy?
Grant Difford explains why it’s a good time to audit your business’s digital strategy – to ensure it supports and enhances humanity,...
Soul Machines joins forces with WHO
New Zealand-based company Soul Machines has joined forces with the World Health Organization to combat Covid-19 misinformation and help...
Recover and rebuild: COVID-19 cashflow solution
Lockdown severely impacted many businesses’ cashflow. While wage subsidies have been helpful, fixed costs continue – regardless of...
FROM THE EDITOR
Buy AUGUST issue here Be kind and carry on Well, what a ride the past quarter has been for New Zealand business! I’m in...
Performing under pressure
New Zealand’s wine industry may be small by global standards, but it contributes generously to New Zealand’s export drive – even...
The tech effect
In the wake of Covid-19’s upheaval worldwide, NZBusiness asked Dr Michelle Dickinson about the support role technology played in...
Less talk, more climate action
Phil Jones presents some simple steps business owners can take right now to get their business on the pathway to climate action. The...
Flexible and friendly: Fiji’s outsourcing advantage
While tourists have long appreciated Fiji as a premium holiday destination, an increasing number of Kiwi, and global, companies have been...
Covid Diary: Finding direction within disruption
A short collection of Covid-crushing insights to help businesses navigate the ‘new normal’. When you consider how this insidious virus...
There is currency in certainty
GoFi8ure executive director Lisa Martin shares her reflections on New Zealand’s post-Covid business landscape – including the lockdown...
Business sweet-as for young Hamilton entrepreneur
As a business student, Josh King earned extra cash by cleaning cars at his Dad’s caryard. Fast-forward five years and he has converted...
China Business Summit 2020
In order to achieve a sound recovery NZ businesses will need to plan and consolidate the China relationship. The sixth China Business...
How to make employees feel safe returning to work
Mark McCrindle and Ashley Fell have research-based advice for business owners looking to ensure their employees feel safe when returning to...
For the love of healthy living
Forty Thieves owners Brent and Shyr Godfrey successfully steered their business through the pandemic storm and are now planning for a...
NZBusiness August 2020
Covid diary: Finding direction within disruption For the love of healthy living There is currency in certainty Flexible and friendly:...
Why failure is not a dirty word
Is the fear of failure holding you back – in life and/or business? Janine Garner offers a strategy for embracing and overcoming your fear...
Small organisations named as diversity awards finalists
A Te Puke chartered accounting firm and Dunedin-based research institute are among four small organisations named as finalists in the 2020...
Pivoting through a pandemic
Business entrepreneur Nick Bartlett and wife Tamara executed an 11th hour product pivot prior to the Covid-19 lockdown, which offers...
Call for shake-up in food packaging
A post-Covid change to New Zealand’s food labelling is needed to support local producers and manufacturers of food, says local...
Economic stability and the Covid financial crisis
Steven Holden weighs up the business landscape as firms continue to grapple with the fallout from the global...
Understanding Europe post-Covid, pre-Brexit
Ashley Balls surveys the post-Covid and pre-Brexit landscape in Europe and identifies an emerging world of opportunity for Kiwi exporters....
Warehouse Stationery donates ad-space to businesses
Warehouse Stationery is offering $150,000 of it’s ad space to ten small businesses, plus the creative firepower from a leading...
Treat others the way you want to be treated
A leader’s role is to understand the different personalities of their employees in order to bring out the best in them. It all begins...
Two powerful ways to grow your sales
If your business has been experiencing sluggish sales growth in recent times, then perhaps these two suggestions from Logan Wedgwood can...
Creating a culture of customer-centric high performers
Creating a customer-centric culture that’s great for both your customers and your people will improve your business’s performance...
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Better Exporting Seminar: Technology and Innovation
This event will showcase and celebrate New Zealand technology and innovation. Our three presenters will give you an update on their race to...