• Euro Corporation will defend charges laid by the Commerce Commission accusing the steel products maker and distributor of breaching the Fair Trading Act in the sale of a ductile steel mesh product
• Business buzz boosting employment outlook in Hawke's Bay
• Whanganui population growth biggest on record
• Augusta lines up third property for industrial property fund
• Increased interest in STEM jobs sees drop in BA students
• Rich man, poor man: inequality gap grew in 2017, Oxfam report reveals
• Minister for Trade and Export Growth heads to London and Davos World Economic Forum
• Log exports concern NZ processors
• Foreign policy challenges ahead for Ardern government
• Late payments hurt NZ businesses, and weigh on NZ economy

• Auckland firm BFM stoked after defeating counterfeiters in China
• The 107 metre superyacht Ulysses sold to mystery buyer
• Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is pregnant, due in June, and deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters will take over the role for six weeks after the baby is born
• Summer slowdown – PMI
• Who are New Zealand's economic think tanks?
• Is your car on this new list of vehicles? It might have a deadly airbag
• $500m internet cable on track as cable-laying ship arrives in Auckland
• Many electricity users switching suppliers
• Port wants trucks off highway
• Cook Islands takes firm line on China aid

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• Amazon launches products in New Zealand
• French payments systems provider Ingenico plans to integrate New Zealand's Paymark payment network with its recently acquired Bambora business to offer a broader array of services to local retailers and financial institutions
• Manatua cable project set to start

• Freight activity keeps on truckin'

• A2 Milk Co plans to roll out its US business to nine states on the eastern seaboard, which it expects will expand its retail footprint by more than a third.

• NZ commodity prices fall in December while stronger kiwicuts export earnings

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• Fuel purchases drive electronic card spend increase
• Revealed: Kiwis generate 734kg of waste each per year
• Purchase of 'sensitive land' near Cromwell approved
• Partnership 'helping ease skills shortage'

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• Scaffolding industry: It's 'more difficult to hire skilled peopl
• Hands off motorists’ piggy bank, Phil
• A decade without discs: The original MacBook Air turns 10 today
• Fairfax New Zealand Limited (Fairfax Media) will change its company business name to Stuff Limited 1 February 2018.
• Top Google researcher speaking at digital summit in Auckland
• Chatham has plans for new mining consent
• Single owner for Anzco
• Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters will join 20 other countries at a meeting to discuss how to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
• Auckland Airport to sell North Queensland Airports stake for A$370 million
• Testing on Whanganui's new $39m wastewater plant begins

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• Testing on Whanganui's new $39m wastewater plant begins
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• The New Zealand dollar was little changed around 72.50 US cents as German chancellor Angela Merkel moved a step closer to forming a coalition government, boosting demand for the euro
• Productive year ahead for two prominent Dunedin companies
• Solar power not yet financially worthwhile for many people: EECA
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• ANZ Bank deal to sell UDC Finance to HNA not proceeding
• Rubicon shareholders give green light for sale of Tenon Clearwood stake
• Motorsport: Paddon's 2018 schedule confirmed
• The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and its dairy industry partners will extend the Mycoplasma bovis milk testing underway in Canterbury, Otago and Southland into a national milk surveillance programme from February
• New Australian High Commissioner to NZ named
• Rocket Lab will try again this month to launch its small rocket to orbit
• World Famous in Whanganui - Paul Callaghan
• Belron's Smith&Smith set to join forces with Laser Group
• Glass half full in the regions, not half empty

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• Emirates SkyCargo wraps up 2017 on a positive note
• NZ softwood log exports hit new record in 2017, raising ire of wood processors
• OG Oil & Gas has declared its partial takeover for New Zealand Oil & Gas unconditional, having achieved more than enough support to take control of the NZX-listed energy explorer and producer
• Plea for government help over New Zealand's old tyre 'nightmare'
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• Mitre 10's new Palmerston North distribution centre means 'significant' boost in stock
• Jim Anderton's funeral tomorrow open to public
• NZTA requesting information to set up nationwide EV charge infrastructure
• Dunne blasts Govt's medicinal cannabis Bill
• Sweet start for the NZ honey sector after dismal 2017
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• Who’s catching what? $2.2m survey to reel in answers

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• Dwelling and household estimates: December 2017 quarter: STATSNZ
• NZ new car sales seen levelling off in 2018 after posting a fourth annual record
• Man fatally struck by vehicle in workplace accident
• Modern LEGO sets more complex, less inspiring

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