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NZ plummets down business confidence ranks - Adams

New Zealand has tumbled from top to bottom of the OECD business confidence rankings with the most recent data revealing New Zealand has the second lowest level of business confidence in the developed world, National’s Finance Spokesperson Amy Adams says.

Source A National Party release

Top Kiwi lipstick maker Karen Murrell signs with JD.com

New Zealand's biggest lipstick manufacturer, Karen Murrell, has signed a deal with China's largest online retailer as part of its push into the world's second-biggest economy.

Source/ReadMore NZHerald

NZ Toll Workers Winners in Pay Equity Change

Pay equity has arrived at Toll Logistics, without government or legal intervention, thanks to a new Collective Agreement ratified this week.

Chocolate beer launched in Invercargill

United Brewing and the Seriously Good Chocolate Company have combined their efforts to create the Seriously Good Chocolate Stout, launched in …

Source/ReadMore A ODT release

Placemakers offer prefab workers jobs

Hardware retailer Placemakers has come to the rescue of some of the 30 workers who lost their jobs after the collapse of of Matrix Homes.

Source/ReadMore Stuff Businnessday

Steel & Tube’s 24 guilty pleas boosts proposed class action

Steel & Tube’s 24 guilty pleas boosts proposed funded class action – Steel Mesh Victims

Source A Adina Thorn release

Independent infrastructure body major focus of Building Nations infrastructure conference

“The importance and value of arm’s length infrastructure advice to Government to assist infrastructure decision-making will be the keynote topic at this year’s Building Nations Symposium,” says Stephen Selwood CEO of Infrastructure New Zealand.

Source Infrastructure New Zealand

Strike! Taharoa workers have had enough

E tū union members at Taharoa Ironsands mine have issued a strike notice today, as the company continues to refuse a fair deal for the workers.

Source A E tū release

NZ log market getting 'nervy' over US-China trade stoush, AgriHQ says

New Zealand's booming export log market is starting to catch the jitters as concerns mount about the impact of US President Donald Trump’s trade war

Source/ReadMore Sharechat

Trans-Tasman cooperation on biosecurity risk detection technology

Head of Biosecurity New Zealand, Roger Smith, and Deputy Secretary responsible for Australian biosecurity, Lyn O’Connell, meet in Canberra yesterday to exchange letters of cooperation between the two countries on exploring emerging technologies to better manage biosecurity risk.

Source A MPI release

Fonterra chairman stands down to recover from health scare

Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd (FCG) today announced that John Wilson has stood down from his position as Chairman with immediate effect as he recovers from a recent serious health scare.

Source A Fonterra Release

Hellers makes Australian acquisition

As the major shareholder in iconic New Zealand smallgoods manufacturer Hellers, we are very pleased to inform you that Hellers has acquired Moira Mac’s, a leading Australian manufacturer of chilled, ready-to-eat poultry.