Kiwi food producer Smartfoods has signed a $4.5 million sourcing deal with Alibaba to supply it with Vogel's cereal to be sold to consumers in China. Alibaba will sell the product through its various e-commerce channels including through popular online marketplace Tmall over the next 12 months.

Foxton man Michael Muaguitutia has taken out Manawatu's New Zealand Certified Builders (NZCB) Apprentice Challenge.As the regional winner, Michael takes home a Makita power tool, ITM-branded merchandise, and will represent Manawatu at the final, to be held in Rotorua later this month.  Michael, 21, was born in Auckland, but at the age of 17 moved to Foxton to live with his uncle and pursue a rugby career. Not long after moving, Michael landed a building apprenticeship with Caldow Builders, and hasn't looked back.

Spiralised vegetable noodles have won the best new product award at the Outstanding New Zealand Food Producers Awards.Marton company Speirs Foods' The Whole Mix noodles added to its gold and two silver medals for the range, taking home the FMCG Business Outstanding New Product Award.

The New Zealand owned software product development company has been awarded an R&D Growth Grant by Callaghan Innovation.

The concept design for New Zealand’s pavilion at the upcoming Expo 2020 Dubai has been revealed. The design, in sum: sustainable Aotearoa-ness, to the max.Top image: Night view of the New Zealand pavilion for Expo 2020.

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have reached a tipping point of maturity, ready for widespread application across all domains of work and life, Artificial Intelligence Forum New Zealand (AIFNZ) executive director Ben Reid says.

A blueprint and a new brand designed to capture more value for New Zealand’s sheepmeat and beef overseas has been unveiled today by Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ).

Three Victoria University of Wellington students have created a start-up business they say could solve the capital’s parking problem.

The NZ Transport Agency says what’s believed to be a partially complete waka about 10 metres long has been uncovered during excavation work on the Ara Tūhono Pūhoi to Warkworth motorway project.

The Toll Group has underlined its strong commitment to ensuring safe and fair working standards for all its employees across its 1,200 sites in 50 countries, by signing a unique agreement with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and its affiliated unions.