The Hamilton dairy biotech company Quantec won the supreme award at the recent Natural Health Products NZ annual awards in Nelson.

Now in his ninth year of international competition, Kiwi rally star Hayden Paddon has never lost the connection to home with his key sponsors all being New Zealand companies.

Engineers and architects across New Zealand have come together to launch a provocative campaign calling for increased representation of women in their professions.

The trustees of New Zealand’s Hi-Tech Trust are seeking new members to join the Board of Trustees as a result of the trust’s policy of regularly refreshing its Board.

Leading food company Alliance Group has dispatched its first major shipment of product in vacuum skin tray packaging to Hong Kong following a successful trial.

The New Zealand IoT (internet of things) Alliance believes cutting-edge technologies will have a profound impact on helping improve New Zealand’s agricultural productivity.

Third-party logistics company, Linfox, has announced it will run a 24-month graduate program in 2019.

The NZ Transport Agency on Friday this week unveils a locomotive-sized billboard near a railway level crossing in Mid Canterbury, at Hatfield Overdale Road. (Just off State Highway 1, south of Rakaia.)

The escalating trade spat between the US and China is threatening to upset perishables flows into the Middle Kingdom and shift trade routes as Chinese importers look for alternative sources of fruits and meat.  Perishables figure prominently in the list of US origin goods on which China is set to impose 25% tariffs. Beijing’s response to the first salvo from the Trump administration targeted a number of goods, including pork, fruit and wine from the US.

The answer to that question has just changed to at least 80,000 years older than previously thought – based on obsidian-crafted tools found 100 miles from source.  Excavations of the dry bed of the ancient Lake Olorgesailie, in southern Kenya, led by American paleoanthropologist Rick Potts, suggest that our ancestors created the first supply chain between 305,000 and 320,000 years ago, at least 80,000 years older than we previously thought.