Attracting and keeping the best people working in our primary industries is one of the most significant challenges for the sector, Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor said as he announced the finalists in the first Primary Industries Good Employer Awards.
24 Oct: 0823 |New Zealand and Japan are working together to transition away from a reliance on fossil fuels with the signing of a Memorandum of Cooperation on hydrogen, says Energy and Resources Minister Megan Woods.
The Green Party continue to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP) Amendment Bill, which would allow for the ratification of the CPTPP.
24 Oct: 0716 |The Reserve Bank today published a consultation paper proposing changes to the reporting and publishing of breaches by banks.
24 Oct: 1055 | New Zealand’s largest drug developer and manufacturer, Douglas Pharmaceuticals supplies prescription consumer medicines as well as health and beauty products to a number of international markets.
"Research and development is vital in the pharmaceutical industry.”
Fonterra says India remains a massive opportunity for the New Zealand cooperative once it inevitably shifts to being a dairy importer reports Rebecca Howard for Newsroom.
India is currently balanced in terms of supply and demand, said Teh-han Chow, who heads up Fonterra's ingredients business into China and South and East Asia.
“As it continues to grow and production doesn't keep pace there will eventually be a need for dairy imports into India. The question mark is when,” Teh-han told BusinessDesk at the NZX Global Dairy Seminar in Singapore last week. "That's the million dollar question."
India’s spending on consumption will rise to around US$4 trillion by 2025 according to different estimates and its normal year-on-year expenditure growth is already double the global average, he said.
"The numbers are huge. The country is huge. It is quite a large opportunity," he said.
While India doesn't currently need to import dairy, Teh-han said consumers are actively seeking protein, due to religious and dietary restrictions, and “dairy protein is a good alternative". Read More ... >
24 Oct: 1018 | Scammers have been hard at work over the long weekend, and while New Zealanders were out enjoying the three day break, CERT NZ received a significant spike in reports of webcam blackmail scams.
The new distillery for luxury whisky brand The Macallan has installed a variety of Flowcrete floors to create surfaces that would reflect its visual identity and maintain the functional properties required to produce this iconic Scottish spirit.
23 Oct: 1202 | New Zealand’s biggest meat processor, Silver Fern Farms has kept its side of the bargain by increasing the number of Samoan RSE workers.
By the first week of November, 100 new Samoa RSE workers should be employed in the four Silver Fern Meat Processing operations in New Zealand including 40 in their new Pacific Plant. Already 135 Samoan RSE workers are on the Sliver Fern’s payroll.
And the company has committed to hire total contingent of 250 Samoans to work for 10 months with them and it’s just rewards for government and the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour, (MCIL) the implementing agency for the Seasonal Workers incentives for New Zealand and Australia.
At a pre-departure meeting yesterday, the 100 new intakes were not spared by M.C.I.L’s Chief Executive Pulotu Lyndon Chu Ling and Samoa’s New Zealand based R.S.E. Liaison Officer Lemalu Nele Leilua
“You carry the hopes of your wives, children, parents, family, your people and your government,” urged Pulotu. “Do not waste this once in a lifetime opportunity by falling into temptation.
“Stay away from alcohol because it has been proven time and again as the cause of misery and termination of your contracts.
“Your performance also carry the hopes of your government for more opportunities from Silver Ferns.
“Ruin it and you, your family and your village will face the consequences.” Read More . . . >