Michael Barnett, Auckland Chamber of Commerce head, agreed the taxes returned to the pockets of middle New Zealanders was made possible by the hard work and success of business over the past eight years.“Looking out at the 3% growt…
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NZ setting the scene for US to demand more in TPPA
‘The hype leading into the meeting of ministers from the eleven remaining Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement countries in Hanoi today assumes they can bring the US back to the fold by implementing the original deal.’‘T…
Auckland Writers Festival Breaks All Records
New Zealand’s largest literary Festival broke its own record this week, with more than 70,000 seats filled across six days of story and ideas delivered by inspirational local and international writers.The programme, the Festival&rs…
Hannah Aims Higher
Her ‘old man’ may really be an All Black but high flying young professional, Hannah Cameron, is committed to charting […]
With Peter Davey (Business Growth Services)
Kiwis are renowned for hard graft and being keen to ‘go it on their own’ in business. But success takes […]
Globally Lauded Novelist Wins Country’s Biggest Fiction Prize
Internationally renowned Ngāruawāhia resident Catherine Chidgey has won New Zealand’s richest writing award, the $50,000 Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize, for her novel The Wish Child. The award was announced this evening a…
Thousands of Green Day fans able to share their experiences live from Spark Arena
American punk rock band Green Day rocked out the newly renamed and revamped Spark Arena on Saturday and Sunday night. And for the first time, many of the fans in the audience could capture their concert experience while using the new fre…
Spark brings email home to New Zealand
Spark has now completed the process of moving its Xtra email service away from Yahoo to New Zealand-owned email platform provider SMX. Spark and SMX now have over 800,000 Xtra email accounts up and running on the new email platform.Jason…
Spark introduces ‘Data Lovers’ packs as more customers opt for apps over texting and calling
Spark has launched two new prepay ‘Data Lovers’ packs to cater for the growing popularity of calling and messaging apps which use data rather than minutes and text. Data amounts across both Spark and Skinny’s range of p…
Opus appoints new Director
Opus International Consultants has announced the appointment of a new Director, Low Chee Yen, effective from 8 May 2017. Ms […]