Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Westpac New Zealand will become naming partner for the Westpac Champion Business Awards 2018, Leeann Watson, CEO of the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce announced today.

The government plans to impose goods and services tax on small online retail purchases which have previously been ignored by officials because it was too expensive to pursue, making foreign suppliers collect the tax and dropping some border duties for the 

The more the unrelenting US-China competition foreshadowed in contemporary US planning becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, the more New Zealand and its partners need to encourage a regional environment less dominated by the ambitions of the big two, writes Robert Ayson for Newsroom today.

Synlait Milk has partnered with farm software company FarmIQ Systems to provide certified Lead With Pride™ dairy farmers with a cloud-based farm information system.

Five more businesses have joined Air New Zealand’s Airpoints programme, offering their customers new ways to earn Airpoints Dollars™:

Manufacturers, engineers today and through till Thursday is your chance to update yourselves on 3D printer products, specifically the Markforged range with New Zealand master agent Cadpro Systems. Doors open at 0900 this morning.

Apr 30 - An option which came up is using our food and agricultural waste on a wide scale across the country. Environment Conservation Organisations of New Zealand Co-Chair Barry Weeber told Mike Hosking we can put our food scraps to good use. "Using our waste more effectively. Methane is a waste and …

Apr 30 -  He said the entire project was through trial and error – piecing together different scraps like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Dickie sourced most of the scrap metal from a large bin at his work. The train's wheels were bought on Trade Me for $240. "I must admit there was the cost of a few beers sitting and studying …

Apr 30 - Florent Petteni, Airbus' aircraft interiors marketing director for the A350, told CNN Travel there will be "no missing windows". "Whenever a passenger selects a window seat, they will always get a window. This eliminates the dreaded "windowless" window seat found on other aircraft."

Apr 30 - New Zealand previously sent most of its recycling to China. Spokesperson Graham Christian for waste company Smart Environmental said paper and plastic stocks had started to build up since the ban.