ERoad returned to profit after beating annual earnings guidance as North American sales more than doubled once the logistics and fleet management firm overcame strong lobbying to delay a favourable regulatory system for its services

Budget 2018 announced today revealed that the country’s books are in good order and the Government intends to maintain surpluses over the coming parliamentary term.

BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope said some of the big ticket items in the Budget would help support business growth.

The Manufacturers' Network on Budget 2018, released today by the Finance Minister, Grant Robertson, ticked some boxes for the economy, particularly around health, with some investment in infrastructure, education and R&D spending. There was, however, little else for the manufacturing sector to get excited about and not much focused on addressing productivity and skills shortages.

The 2018 Budget’s allocation of $1 billion towards R&D tax credits will be welcomed by exporting and manufacturing firms.

The Taxpayers’ Union is fuming that Minister for Research, Science and Innovation Megan Woods has broken her word and capitulated to Callaghan Innovation’s pressure to keep its precious corporate welfare grant schemes, rather than phasing them out in favour of the new R&D tax credit.

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise is in the market for a budgeting and forecasting tool to replace its current excel-based solution writes Sarah Putt for Computerworld.

The health risks of insecure work have been exposed during Select Committee submissions today on the Employment Relations Amendment Bill.

Sumitomo Forestry NZ, the local unit of the Japanese timber conglomerate, posted a record profit last year after buying the timber plantations of US forestry investor Hancock in 2016 to secure more supply for its wood processing plant

Waste Management, New Zealand's biggest waste collection and recycling company, drove up sales and profit last year as economic growth underpinned volumes of industrial and construction sector waste and it added landfill capacity