Leading provider of online business management solutions, MYOB Group Limited (ASX: MYO) today announced the acquisition of Greentree for a total consideration of NZ$28.5 million. Headquartered in Auckland, Greentree delivers leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to over 850 larger businesses across Australia, New Zealand, UK and US. With over 25 years’ experience, Greentree distributes via a partner channel into the enterprise market, comprising companies with approximately 100 – 1,000 employees. Its product suite has broad, on-premise ERP functionality and licensing is primarily perpetual with annual maintenance. MYOB helps businesses succeed by providing online business management solutions for its 1.2…

Transport Minister Simon Bridges has welcomed the signing of an air services agreement opening the opportunity for code-sharing between New Zealand and Mauritius airlines. The agreement was signed today after being negotiated by officials at an international air services conference in Turkey in 2015. “This agreement opens up opportunities for code-share services linking New Zealand and Mauritius, through Air Mauritius services to and from Perth, Australia. Passenger airlines of each side can now also operate up to 14 services per week,” Mr Bridges says. “This agreement will further enhance New Zealand’s international air connectivity, bringing both trade and tourism benefits.”…

Avery Products has unveiled its new range of label stocks named AveryPro, soon after the company revealed it would launch a new print label business WePrint. The new collection of label sheet stock is slated to suit print businesses which use digital printers for short-run and special project print jobs, Avery Products says they will meet the growing demand for premium grade labels printed just in time to meet an ever growing need for fast turnaround. The company says that commercial printers can diversify their product range to existing clients by ‘entering the varied and lucrative label market, and also…

New Zealand First can reveal serious holes in Land Information (LINZ) data that the government claims to show low levels of overseas ownership. “The government’s data is bumph and only proves its specious honesty box approach to foreigners buying our land,” says New Zealand First Leader and Member of Parliament for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters. “A weak Minister in a government denying reality is talking up data that simply does not exist. “From the horse’s mouth, Inland Revenue, we have this: ‘Inland Revenue does not record information based on tax residency’. “How do we know that the 63 per…

Experienced construction candidates remain in such high demand that they often receive multiple job offers, says recruiting experts Hays. Quantity Surveyors, Site Managers and good skilled trades and labour are among the skills in such short supply that employers will move quickly and offer career progression in order to secure their preferred candidate. “Most regions in New Zealand are experiencing increased residential activity while the unprecedented investment in commercial construction and transport projects across Auckland is adding to the significant skill shortage,” says Jason Walker, Managing Director of Hays in New Zealand. “In Auckland, residential companies are busier than ever…

CentrePort has invested in a new regional hub in the Wairarapa. The Waingawa log hub, near Masterton, supports the fast growing and valuable forestry sector through a reliable and cost effective transport connection, ensuring exporters remain internationally competitive. Transport Minister Simon Bridges officially opened the venture this morning. The project is the result of a successful partnership between Wellington’s port company CentrePort, Forest Enterprises Limited and Farman Turkington Forestry with the support of KiwiRail. It is served by daily KiwiRail freight trains, connecting the Wairarapa region to CentrePort and to the world. The development follows a period of sustained growth…

Scientists from Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Liverpool have been awarded more than $850,000 to advance a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. The team have also been awarded a grant from the United Kingdom’s Alzheimer’s Society worth more than $450,000 (£260,000 GBP), as well as a New Zealand Federation of Women's Institutes research grant of $15,000 for Dr Zubkova. The funding will be used to develop drug candidates discovered from research the team has been working on since 2008. Every 60 seconds someone in the world develops Alzheimer’s disease, which causes an inability to retain new information…

The Tauranga Harbour Marine Precinct – known as Vessel Works - will be home to New Zealand's largest-capacity mobile vessel hoist when it opens for business mid next year. Tauranga City Council Chief Executive, Garry Poole, and Claudio Carlon, Sales Manager of Vessel Hoists for Italian engineering company Cimolai Technology, today signed an agreement to formalise the purchase of the new vessel hoist. Mr Poole said the hoist – which was capable of lifting commercial and recreational vessels up to 350 tonnes, 12m wide and 45m long – would allow businesses in the Marine Precinct to lift, move and store…

National Road Carriers chairperson Chris Carr has praised local stakeholders for the ease with which the new verified gross mass (VGM) regulations for packed international containers have been adopted. Stating that New Zealand is in fact “leading the world” in this regard, Mr Carr notes the country even moved to the new regulations on a voluntary basis two weeks prior to the July 1 international deadline. “A significant amount of work with industry groups went into planning the introduction, with exporters, forwarders, road and rail operators, ports, shipping lines and Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) all involved in working out the…