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Council Confirms Hamilton Riverview Hotel Shareholding Sale

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:20:40 +1300 | Joint Press Release

Hamilton City Council has confirmed the sale of its 41.38% shareholding in Hamilton Riverview Hotel Ltd to Tainui Development Ltd, a subsidiary of Tainui Group Holdings Ltd.More >>

NZ is first to trial new Samsung mobile phone technology

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:54:09 +1300 | gen-i

Telecom’s ICT services division Gen-i today announced it has partnered with Samsung to successfully pilot and launch Samsung KNOX™ into the New Zealand market, reaffirming New Zealand’s role as an incubation hub for technology innovation.More >>

Otago Polytechnic wins silver for NZ’s Best Product Design

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:41:11 +1300 | Otago Polytechnic

Otago Polytechnic Product Realisation Group, innovation workSpace , have won a silver award for New Zealand’s Best Product Design, for their production of a single-blade wind turbine.More >>

NZX Market Announcement: Cooks Completes Acquisitions

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:31:31 +1300 | NZX

Cooks Global Foods (Cooks) is pleased to advise it has today completed the acquisitions of Franchise Development Limited, Esquires Coffee (UK) Limited, Esquires Coffee Houses Ireland Limited and the business and assets of Progressive Processors Limited.More >>

Price increases hitting low incomes and people in Canterbury

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:22:21 +1300 | Council of Trade Unions

“The sharp increase in the CPI this quarter, bringing it to a 1.4 percent increase for the year, is mainly in areas that hurt lower income families. In addition people in Canterbury are particularly hard hit”, says Bill Rosenberg, CTU economist.More >>

TICS Bill is Still Bad for New Zealand Digital Businesses

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:01:44 +1300 | NZRise

Minister for ICT, Amy Adams has released an SOP which makes some changes to the controversial Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Bill (TICS Bill). This will be introduced to Parliament today as the Bill receives its second reading.More >>

Telecom’s increasing investment in the Waikato

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:08:45 +1300 | Telecom New Zealand

Telecom continues to invest in expanding its mobile network across the Waikato with over one million dollars spent which will improve mobile coverage and capacity in Livingston West, Te Miro, Te Kowhai West and Cobham Drive.More >>

New Zealand’s economic recovery fuels jobs growth momentum

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:53:16 +1300 | Hays

Quantity Surveyors, Senior Management Accountants and G&B Line Mechanics are just three of the professionals sought by employers as the New Zealand economy bounces back from the earthquakes that shook the country’s second city of Christchurch ...More >>

Brother Wins Prestigious Global Awards for Product Design

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:20:54 +1300 | Brother NZ

Brother Industries, Ltd. has scooped eight prestigious Good Design Awards in a global programme recognising product design, excellence and innovation. The multiple wins see Brother celebrate twenty consecutive years of Good Design Award honours, spanning ...More >>

Silver Fern Farms Chairman to retire at End of term

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:57:51 +1300 | Silver Fern Farms

Silver Fern Farms Chairman Eoin Garden is not seeking re-election to the Board of Silver Fern Farms in the forthcoming election. In his 6 years as Chairman and 10 years as a Director he has seen significant changes in the company’s strategy – ...More >>

Student designs for Hobsonville heritage gardens wow judges

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:55:02 +1300 | AVJennings

Winners of the Unitec Student Landscape Design Competition were announced at a prize-giving event at Hobsonville Point’s Catalina Café last week, as part of the Auckland Heritage Festival.More >>

Newmarket Young Fashion Designer Awards Winners Announced

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:48:41 +1300 | Newmarket Young Fashion Designer

The fashion industry can rest easy knowing top young talent is on its way, as showcased by the winners of Friday’s Newmarket Young Fashion Designer Awards. Seventeen year-old Tanya Kerr took out Top People’s Choice Vote and Best Overall Journal as well as ...More >>

Xero CEO Drury makes Hawke’s Bay hum

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:28:21 +1300 | Business Central

Local boy-turned technology whizz Rod Drury, the CEO of share market accounting software giant Xero, today gave a sell-out Hawke’s Bay business audience an insight into what makes his business tick and what is needed to make Hawke’s Bay progress.More >>

Wellington’s Business Unfriendly Sandwich Board Debate

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:56:16 +1300 | John Morrison

The Lambton Quay sandwich board debate is another example of a user-unfriendly Wellington City Council. Sandwich board wardens patrol Lambton Quay making sure the kerbside advertising is registered and annual fees of $180 have been paid and that owners ...More >>

Benefits already obvious to SI tourism operators

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 14:39:20 +1300 | Christchurch International Airport

More than a thousand businesspeople from Nelson to Invercargill are already seeing benefits of recent training in working with Chinese visitors. Over the past month, business and tourism operators have attended workshops called “Becoming China Ready”.More >>

TPP: This is a fight worth joining

Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:22:08 +1300 | Hadyn Green

Trade negotiations are tense affairs. There are always interested parties trying to get your ear, long nights spent arguing small but technical points, and the invisible but ever present political pressure. So it was in Brunei late August where the latest ...More >>