Canterbury’s rural sector employment boom trumps rebuild
Highly skilled professionals are focusing on where the Canterbury employment market will endure in the long term – and it’s not...
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Public Kitchen and Bar scores at Queenstown awards
Queenstown restaurant Public Kitchen and Bar is celebrating in style this week after taking out the title of Best New and Emerging Business...
New Zealand goes coconuts for ex-pats CO YO
New Zealanders are going coconuts for Australasia’s first dairy-free coconut milk yoghurt, CO YO, and recently the company shipped...
Masterpet supreme in Hutt Valley awards
Masterpet Corporation from Lower Hutt was named the supreme business award winner at the recent Westpac Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce...
Whitestone Cheese wins top Otago accolade
Oamaru artisan cheese maker Whitestone has won the Westpac-Otago Chamber of Commerce Supreme Business Award at the OBiz event in...
Christchurch business secures footwear contract
Christchurch gumboot manufacturing company Sandford Industries is well and truly back on its feet post-earthquake after becoming the first...
Adventure tourism pioneer marks 25 years
New Zealand’s most pioneering off-road adventure tourism company reaches a momentous landmark this month as ‘Off Road...
Kagi Jewellery launches ‘Win a Wish’ campaign
Entrepreneurial New Zealand Jewellery Designer Kat Gee, the woman behind successful Australasian jewellery brand Kagi is giving two women...
SMEs wave goodbye to recession
New Zealand’s SMEs are now showing the highest growth in more than half a decade, capping a remarkable turnaround in the last five...
MYOB launches online POS solution
Business solutions provider MYOB has launched its new online point-of-sale (POS) solution, MYOB Kounta, making it more efficient for small...
Online shopping a popular pastime
More than a third of New Zealanders spend more money shopping online than they do on a shopping trip to the store according to a new,...
Businesses in the running for dream $50k grant
Ora, a start-up focused on helping small and medium-sized companies grow, will award grants to three Kiwi businesses, accelerating their...
Tech startup launches social media shopping platform
A new Kiwi startup is utilising Facebook integrated technology to help drive a new smartphone shopping concept, which is already...
Precision Seafood Harvesting is Supreme Innovator
Commercial fishing partnership Precision Seafood Harvesting has been crowned New Zealand’s most innovative organisation at the New...
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The price of our laid back business culture
Despite people working longer hours, New Zealand is facing a serious productivity problem, which Paul Kane, partner, privately held...
Sleepnest debuts at Best Awards
It’s been a while coming, but The Little Adventure is delighted to announce the arrival of its first pure New Zealand wool baby...
Civil engineering firm named Kapiti’s Business of the Year
A successful Waikanae civil engineering company has been selected as the 2014 Kapiti Horowhenua Electra Business of the...
More positive results for SleepDrops
Kiwi company SleepDrops, featured in the September 2014 issue of NZBusiness, has triumphed again - this time at the North Shore Westpac...
Work and Income success story benefits business
As part of a return-to-work programme Rapid Results has been partnering with Work and Income to put dozens of people back in to the...
Go Pink for a Day
The NZ Breast Cancer Foundation’s Pink for a Day campaign is taking on a new twist – and applying it to the boss’...
SMES still want less red tape
New Zealand small businesses are still looking for policies to reduce their compliance burden, that’s according to the latest...
Making life easier for small businesses
Business.govt.nz has launched a new online tool which allows small businesses to search their central government compliance requirements in...
Kiwis’ love of mobile shopping grows
Kiwis’ use of mobile devices to shop is growing apace, but mobile shoppers are becoming less likely to be influenced through Facebook...
Home auctioned for Make-A-Wish
The Rodney franchise holder for G.J. Gardner Homes is proud to officially open the doors to its new Rodney-based property, built to raise...
Our hottest export technology companies
Technology Investment Network (TIN) has revealed New Zealand’s top ten high growth technology export companies across two categories...
Forget ‘dirty politics’, what do politicians have to offer SMEs?
Business owner managers are invited to join the Policy Debate at the 2014 New Zealand Small Business Summit on September...
Digital SMEs enjoy higher revenues
A new Yellow survey shows the ‘digital readiness’ of Kiwi SMEs is slowly...
Identical lawyer twins cause people to see double
Busy solicitors often wish they could be in two places at once, and at Tauranga’s Sharp Tudhope Lawyers that’s exactly what...
NZ the future superpower of craft beer
The thirst for New Zealand craft beer is expected to triple over the next decade but there are concerns that brewers might not be ready to...
Employees to open up social media access for better work deal
Dataprofiling could soon become commonplace in the workplace, according to PwC’s report, The future of work: A journey to 2022, with...