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NASA Hand-picks Kiwi Nut Butter Brand Fix & Fogg To Travel To Space In NZ First
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 7:16 pm | Fix and Fogg
To celebrate, Fix & Fogg launches limited-edition space-inspired commemorative jar More >>
Pax8 Names Scott Chasin Chief Executive Officer
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 7:01 pm | Pax8
Chasin Chosen for His Ability to Build and Lead Pioneering Tech Companies More >>
Airport Terminal Design Will Constrain Consumers & Airlines, Says BARNZ
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 6:53 pm | BARNZ
Airlines are concerned that the proposed Auckland Airport terminal will fail to address long-term issues of operation. It will result in increased costs for airlines and travellers who will foot the bill while using terminals operating beyond capacity. More >>
ICNZ Welcomes First Reading Of Contracts Of Insurance Bill
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 6:35 pm | Insurance Council of New Zealand
The sector will work closely with the Government and regulators to ensure that the Bill and other regulatory reforms that the industry is facing are done in a co-ordinated way that benefit both consumers and the industry as whole. More >>
Sarah Catran Appointed NZME Head Of Digital Audio
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 5:02 pm | New Zealand Media and Entertainment
New Zealand Media Entertainment (NZME) has promoted award-winning radio and digital audio expert Sarah Catran to the role of Head of Digital Audio. She replaces James Butcher, who was promoted to NZME Chief Commercial Officer in March. More >>
Large Lincoln Landholding Primed For Development
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 4:44 pm | Bayleys Realty Group
One of the last residentially zoned land parcels with significant scale in Lincoln has been placed on the market for sale with flexible use options. The freehold 8.37-hectare property is at 555 Birchs Road. More >>
Are We Really Using Our HR Data Properly?
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 12:53 pm | Launch PR
In today's era of big data, modern HR teams have ‘data lakes’ at their disposal; but let’s get real - unless they’re being transformed into up-to-the-minute insights, these are at risk of becoming ‘data swamps’. More >>
Punishing Businesses Won’t Lift Kiwis Out Of Cost-of-living Crisis
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 10:47 am | New Zealand Taxpayers' Union
Responding to comments from Nicola Willis that scrapping commercial depreciation is being used to raise funds for personal income tax relief, Taxpayers’ Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager, James Ross, said: “Hardworking Kiwis need income tax ... More >>
HY24 Results: Resilient Result In Subdued Economic Environment
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 10:22 am | BNZ
Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) today announced a statutory net profit of $762 million for the six months to 31 March 2024, a decrease of $43 million or 5.3% on the prior year. More >>
Auckland Housing Still Moving Forward From Market Low Point
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 10:20 am | Barfoot and Thompson
In April, the Auckland housing market gave back half the gains it made in March but overall sales continued the forward momentum being made since the low point in July last year. More >>
NZ’s ‘War On Nature’ Flouts Terms Of European Trade Deal, Warns WWF
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 10:10 am | WWF New Zealand
The Government’s rushed programme of environmental deregulation aimed at driving export growth is putting New Zealand’s ground-breaking Free Trade Agreement with the European Union at risk, says the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) New Zealand. More >>
Rising Tides, Sinking Stocks: Study Explores Cost Of Climate Change
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 9:59 am | University of Auckland
A forthcoming paper looks at how climate change impacts company values and offers a novel method to assess individual firms' exposure to climate risks. More >>
NZ Property Report Reveals Recession's Impact On Real Estate Market
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 8:45 am | Realestate.co.nz
Increasing costs of living, high interest rates, and recessionary pressures all impacted the New Zealand property market in April. New data from realestate.co.nz indicates a nationwide downturn in property demand, a trend that extends across most regions. More >>
FSF Responds To The Market Study Into Personal Banking Services - See Submission Highlights
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 7:44 am | Financial Services Federation
“Without sufficient competition and disruption in banking services, New Zealand runs the risk of consumers missing out. We have highlighted our key concerns and recommendations to stop this from happening.” More >>
The Co-operative Bank Wins Consumer NZ People’s Choice For Customer Satisfaction
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 7:38 am | The Cooperative Bank
The Consumer NZ survey found The Co-operative Bank scored 20 per cent higher than its closest competitor. More >>
A Nation Stuck On Hold: Kiwi Waste Over 22 Million Hours For Customer Service
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 7:24 am | ServiceNow
Research from ServiceNow reveals wait times have increased for the second year running – up 13% from last year (nearly 20 million hours). More >>
Who Can You Bank On? Consumer NZ Reveals 2024’s Best And Worst Banks
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 7:20 am | Consumer NZ
The bank with the smallest market share has New Zealand’s most satisfied customers, according to Consumer NZ’s annual banking satisfaction survey. More >>
Six Lotto Players Share $1 Million
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 4:22 am | Lotto New Zealand
The winning tickets were sold at Bayfair Lotto in Mount Manganui, BP Mairehau in Christchurch and on MyLotto to players from Auckland, Wellington and Dunedin. More >>
14 Lotto Players Win Second Division
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 4:19 am | Lotto New Zealand
Fourteen lucky Lotto players win $18,211 each with Lotto Second Division in live Lotto draw. There are 75 extra prizes of $10,000 cash up for grabs with Lotto NZ's Mother's Day promotion. All Triple Dip tickets bought between Sunday 28 April and ... More >>
Air New Zealand Announces Changes To Sustainability Advisory Panel
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 6:28 pm | Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand is pleased to welcome two new members to its Sustainability Advisory Panel, including former Green Party Co-Leader and Minister for Climate Change, James Shaw and Matteo Mirolo, the Head of Policy and Strategy in the Aviation Contrails ... More >>
European Free Trade Agreement A Game-changer For Canterbury
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 5:40 pm | Business Canterbury
Business Canterbury (formerly the Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce) welcomes today’s commencement of the New Zealand-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The agreement, which has been highly anticipated by businesses, promises immediate ... More >>
Flood Resilience PhD Student Widi Auliagisni Named Future Thinker Of The Year 2024
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 5:31 pm | NZGBC
Widi Auliagisni has become the sixth young leader awarded the Future Thinker of the Year title. The annual award, run by the New Zealand Green Building Council (NZGBC), acknowledges a student or young professional who demonstrates environmental knowledge ... More >>
NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement Brings Immediate Gains
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 5:12 pm | BusinessNZ
Export NZ Executive Director Josh Tan says the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed with the European Union is set to deliver immediate outcomes for Kiwi exporters from today. "With an earlier than expected entry into force date, New Zealand horticulture ... More >>
Draft Design Recommendations On A Green Taxonomy For Aotearoa NZ Released For Public Feedback: Deadline Approaching
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 5:03 pm | Centre for Sustainable Finance
The report follows the Government tasking a specialised Independent Technical Advisory Group (ITAG) with preparing and publishing non-binding advice on the design of a taxonomy, and providing its recommendations to the Climate Change Minister by June ... More >>
Toast To Trio Named For First Great Wine Capitals Knowledge Exchange!
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 4:59 pm | Hawkes Bay Winegrowers Inc.
Three members of the Hawke’s Bay wine industry have become the first recipients of the Great Wine Capitals Knowledge Exchange Programme. More >>
Well-connected Deer Industry Tackling Integrated Farm Planning
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 4:52 pm | Deer Industry NZ
Making things simpler, not harder, for deer farmers in farm planning and coping with regulations is Deer Industry NZ (DINZ) industry capability manager John Ladley’s current focus. With markets demanding higher environmental and societal standards ... More >>
Decision To Abandon Regulation Of Residential Property Managers A Setback For The Whole Industry
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 4:47 pm | Auckland Property Investors Association
The Auckland Property Investors Association (APIA) voices profound disappointment in the coalition Government’s decision to halt the regulation of residential property managers. The absence of professional standards in the industry poses significant ... More >>
One Week To NZ's Biggest Tourism Showcase
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 4:10 pm | Tourism Industry Aotearoa
Over 1000 delegates are set to descend on Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington from 8 to 10 May at the Tākina Wellington Convention & Exhibition Centre. More than 300 top travel buyers from 25 countries will attend this year’s event. More >>
Study Finds 83 Per Cent Of Australia And New Zealand SMBs Concerned About Economic Conditions
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 2:19 pm | Constant Contact
Constant Contact’s global SMB report reveals 50 per cent of Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) businesses spend less than $15,000 per year on marketing, and 23 per cent spend less than $1,500. More >>
Nutanix Study Finds Public Sector IT Investment Focused On AI, Ransomware Protection, And Operational Efficiency
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 1:04 pm | Nutanix
Hybrid multicloud deployments expected to increase fourfold over the next three years to help unlock efficiency, security, and innovation. More >>
Sysdig Launches AI Workload Security To Mitigate Active AI Risk
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 12:17 pm | Sysdig
New capability helps companies gain visibility into their AI workloads, identify active risk and suspicious activity in real time, and ensure compliance with emerging AI guidelines. More >>
New Reports Highlight Food Recall System At Work
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 11:41 am | New Zealand Food Safety
A new report by New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) identifies Salmonella in imported sesame seed-based products as the most significant food safety event of 2023, resulting in 14 recalls affecting 65 food products. The Consumer-level Food Recalls Annual ... More >>
Access To World’s Most Successful Program To Fight Bike Theft AvailableTo Police Department In NZ And British Columbia
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 11:28 am | Word Count Consulting
These two separate funding partnerships will see members of the national police service in New Zealand, as well as police forces throughout B.C., provided with full access to the searchable 529 Garage database. More >>
Legal Victory Over Viagogo An Important Win For Kiwi Consumers
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 11:10 am | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has achieved a hard-fought legal victory over global ticket reseller, Viagogo, after the company repeatedly mislead customers about its authenticity as an official ticket seller, its status as a resale platform, and the price, scarcity, ... More >>
New Zealand’s Top Spirits Producer Launches Search For New Zealand’s Best Bartender
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 11:08 am | Payper
The competition opens today (May 1st) with the cocktail to contain at least 40ml of a Scapegrace product (Scapegrace Classic, Black, Blood Moon, Gold, Vodka or any Scapegrace Single Malt Whisky) and at least one championed ingredient, which represents ... More >>
Hipkins Is Wrong About What Labour Government Got Wrong
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 10:55 am | Taxpayers' Union
“Of all the decisions made by the previous government, it is embarrassing that Chris Hipkins’ only regret seems to be that his pay was frozen. The only bad outcome from freezing MP pay was felt by MPs personally with slightly less taxpayer money ... More >>
Spark IoT Partners With Iota For New Generation Of Smart Water Meter Management For Councils
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 10:44 am | Spark NZ
Spark IoT has today announced a partnership with Iota, a subsidiary of South East Water to bring its enterprise IoT platform Lentic® and a new generation of smart water meter technology to local councils and water utilities in Aotearoa. More >>
China Southern Airlines Confirms Return To Christchurch
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 9:58 am | Christchurch Airport
China’s largest carrier will fly to Christchurch five times a week for five months from the end of October, which is a 52% increase in capacity on the past summer. More >>
Foodstuffs South Island Consolidates Operations And Delivers Improved Experience With SAP
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 9:47 am | SAP
SAP today announced Foodstuffs South Island has gone live with SAP S/4 HANA RISE, enabling the organisation to drive operational efficiencies, transform the member and supplier experience, and better meet its customers’ demand for fresh and affordable ... More >>
Financial System Robust To High Interest Rate Environment
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 9:44 am | The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
New Zealand’s financial system remains strong as it continues to adjust to the higher interest rate environment, Deputy Governor Christian Hawkesby says in releasing the May 2024 Financial Stability Report. More >>
Jooules Raises $1m To Produce Ingredients-Based Protein From Co2 Emission Streams
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 8:51 am | Jooules
New Zealand based alt protein start-up Jooules has powered up the next steps to commercialise its novel gaseous fermentation technology with a $1 million capital raise by Sprout Agritech LP. More >>
Revyz Raises The Bar With Cloud Security For Atlassian With Introduction Of Malware Scanning
Wednesday, 1 May 2024, 8:32 am | Revyz
As the Atlassian user and partner community gathered together for Atlassian Team’24, leading marketplace partner, Revyz, announced a major step forward for customers in the fight against cyber attack and malware. More >>
Kiwi Company Calls For Crowdfunding
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 11:15 pm | Scope Communications
Innovative outdoor gear brand KEA Outdoors is aiming to raise $500k in growth capital this month via an equity crowdfunding campaign. More >>
International Sauvignon Blanc Day Recognises An Iconic Varietal That Continues To Surprise And Delight
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 8:38 pm | Wine Marlborough Ltd
International Sauvignon Blanc Day on 3 May is an opportunity to recognise the contribution of the Marlborough viticulture industry, and to reflect on another year of excellence for this iconic varietal wine. More >>
Exploring Auckland Made Easy: The Rise Of Cheap Car Rentals In The City
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 8:25 pm | NZ Rent A Car
In the heart of Auckland City the demand for car rentals is notably on the rise, reflecting the city's growing appeal as both a travel destination and a business hub. New Zealand Rent A Car, a key player in the Auckland car rental market, is at ... More >>
New Zealand Rent A Car Reinforces Commitment To Comprehensive Service On Auckland's North Shore
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 8:24 pm | NZ Rent A Car
New Zealand Rent A Car is proud to reaffirm its dedication to providing a wide array of vehicle rental options on Auckland's North Shore, catering to the diverse needs of both the local community and international visitors. More >>
Auckland Airport Car Rental Services Expand To Meet Growing Traveler Demand
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 8:22 pm | NZ Rent A Car
Located conveniently at Airport Oaks, close to Auckland International Airport, NZ Rent A Car has become a popular choice for those seeking reliable and affordable transportation options. More >>
New Zealand Rent A Car Offers Wide Range Of Vehicle Rental Options In Blenheim
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 8:21 pm | NZ Rent A Car
Located in a region renowned for its vineyards and natural beauty, the Blenheim branch offers a wide range of vehicles, from economical compacts to spacious SUVs, catering to varied transportation requirements. More >>
Kelray Heating Announces Expansion Of Outdoor Heating Range With New Fire Pit
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 8:18 pm | Kelray Heating
Available from July this year, this new addition extends Kelray’s already extensive line of high-quality NZ outdoor heaters, offering more versatility and style for outdoor living spaces. More >>
MPs Must Reject Out-of-touch Near $20,000 Pay Hike
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 5:26 pm | Taxpayers' Union
The Taxpayers’ Union is slamming today’s determination from the Remuneration Authority that backbench MPs will be receiving an additional $17,239 in base salaries by the end of the Parliamentary term. More >>
Commission Grants Clearance For NZ Post To Acquire Certain Courier Business Assets Of PBT
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 5:22 pm | Commerce Commission
The Commerce Commission has granted clearance for New Zealand Post Limited (NZ Post) to acquire PBT Group Limited’s (PBT) courier customer contracts. Central to the Commission’s decision was its assessment of the competitiveness of PBT absent the ... More >>
Infoblox Threat Intel Discovers Muddling Meerkat, A DNS Operation Controlling China’s Great Firewall
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 5:06 pm | Infoblox
Infoblox Inc. , a leader in cloud networking and security services, today announced that its threat intel researchers, in collaboration with external researchers, have uncovered ‘Muddling Meerkat’, a likely People's Republic of China (PRC) state ... More >>
Kordia Appoints Glen White As Executive GM For Cyber Security
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 4:26 pm | Kordia
White had joined the company in 2018 and was previously the Executive GM of Kordia Solutions, the business unit responsible for infrastructure and field services for mission-critical communications and technology. More >>
ASA Strengthens Advertising Protections For Consumers With Two Comprehensive New Codes
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 2:59 pm | Advertising Standards Authority
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is pleased to announce two new Codes have been adopted and will replace the existing Children and Young People’s Advertising Code and the food rules in the Advertising Standards Code in November 2024. More >>
Unveiling The Impact Of Online Stock Market Courses On Utah's Business Landscape
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 2:06 pm | Hugh Grant
Utah's business community is witnessing a notable transformation, catalysed by the growing influence of online stock market courses. This shift, from traditional classroom settings to virtual platforms, has spurred significant interest and participation ... More >>
XLabs: Future Of Food
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 2:03 pm | Nelson Regional Development Agency
We are inviting those businesses right across the food and beverage industry to join us to work on a challenge facing their business and reimagine it be more abundant, nature-positive, and truly regenerative by design. More >>
Inaugural Best Of Wine Tourism Awards Open For Entries
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 1:50 pm | Hawkes Bay Tourism
Only Hawke’s Bay businesses can enter Great Wine Capitals global awards programme More >>
Commvault Turns The Concept Of Cleanrooms On Its Head
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 1:08 pm | Commvault
Under Constant Threat of Attack, CXOs Can Affordably Test their Cyber Recovery Plans On-Demand and Orchestrate Rapid Recovery to a Clean Location in the Cloud More >>
Tradieguide Announces Launch Of Informative Regional Guides For Heat Pump Providers
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 12:42 pm | TradieGuide
Both guides are designed to serve as a primary resource for anyone looking to install or maintain a heat pump, offering a user-friendly interface and easy navigation. More >>
ICNZ Endorses Call To Lift Understanding Of Natural Hazard Risks
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 12:39 pm | Insurance Council of New Zealand
The Insurance Council of New Zealand Te Kahua Inihua o Aotearoa (ICNZ) has endorsed findings that New Zealand needs to act decisively around natural hazards risks to ensure insurance is affordable and available in the future. More >>
