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MIDDAY UPDATE: Fonterra lifts payout forecast
Wednesday, 29 May 2013, 12:49 pm | BusinessDesk
May 29 (BusinessDesk) Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, lifted its forecast payout to farmers more than forecast, citing strong international prices for dairy products. More >>
Who Can Beat Chris Birch?
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 5:18 pm | Bikesport NZ
CAPTION: Titirangi’s Callan May (Kiwi Rider BikesportNZ.com Yamaha YZ250F), on top of the expert under-300cc four-stroke class after four rounds of the enduro nationals thus far. Photo by Andy McGechan, BikesportNZ.com More >>
Karters Again Feature In Motorsport Academy Intake
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 3:22 pm | KartSport
Karters again feature in the intake for this year's MotorSport New Zealand Elite Academy, Auckland drivers Christopher 'CJ' Sinclair and Reid Harker set to join seven other promising youngsters for the annual week-long programme in Dunedin in early ... More >>
Clean Weekend for the Valvoline Ford at Pukekohe
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 2:18 pm | Tasman Motorsports Group
In a race weekend where over a quarter of the V8 SuperTourer field sustained major damage, the Tasman Motorsports Group (TMG) Valvoline Ford recovered from a bad qualifying result to complete a clean and damage free weekend of racing at the Pukekohe Brother ... More >>
Trans-Tasman Secondary Schools Netball Tournament 2013
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 12:24 pm | Netball NZ
Day One of the trans-Tasman Secondary Schools Netball Tournament was welcomed with a warm sunny Rotorua day as eight of the ten competing teams took to the court. More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: Tower gains after asset sales
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 12:23 pm | Businesswire
May 28 (BusinessDesk) – Shares in Tower surged 8.8 percent to $1.85 after the insurer signalled its asset sales will see more capital returned to shareholders, and kept it in the black in the first half of the year. More >>
Lightfoot Rides the Rollercoaster For Pukekohe Round Win
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 12:16 pm | Lightfoot Motorsport
Mike ‘Buzz’ Lightfoot has experienced the highs and lows of motor racing all within one weekend at the third round of the UDC V8 Ute series, held at Pukekohe over the weekend. More >>
Rally Xtreme Moves Up a Gear
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 12:14 pm | Rally Xtreme
June sees the Total Lubricants Rally Xtreme Challenge move up a gear with two rounds to contest in the month. With the GoPro Daybreaker Rally set for 29 June, next up is the second round of Rally Xtreme, the Tomoana Warehousing Rally Hawkes Bay on ... More >>
A Grid Full of V8 Thunder For 2013 Stihl Shop Woodhill 100
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 12:09 pm | Stihl Shop Woodhill 100
Fast five: race watchers are saying the first five rows of the grid for this weekend’s Stihl Woodhill 100 will probably include the eventual winner as the most competitive field in many years heads for the forest. More >>
Plenty of Reason to Smile
Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 11:34 am | Bikesport NZ
It’s a very potent and yet still very rider-friendly motorcycle, just as Britain’s Tom Sykes demonstrated at the weekend when he scored back-to-back wins at round five of the World Superbike Championships at Donington Park. More >>
Lester Clean Sweeps Korea to Lead Super Taikyu Championship
Monday, 27 May 2013, 3:27 pm | Jono Lester
Kiwi Jono Lester has made a clean sweep of the South Korean round of the 2013 Super Taikyu Series at the new Inje Speedium, to lead the Championship with maximum points. More >>
Lightfoot Takes Round Win After Dramatic Weekend
Monday, 27 May 2013, 3:19 pm | BNT V8 SuperTourers
Mike ’Buzz’ Lightfoot halted the Chris Hanley steamroller with a huge round win at the Brother 350 meeting at Pukekohe this weekend, the third round of the UDC NZ V8 Utes series. More >>
Van Gisbergen Spoils the Party For Murph and Mclaughlin
Monday, 27 May 2013, 2:45 pm | BNT V8 SuperTourers
It had been billed as the old guard versus the young pretender, but it was Shane van Gisbergen who stole the thunder of Greg Murphy and Scott McLaughlin with a dominant round win at the new-look Pukekohe Park Raceway and laid claim to be the new ‘King’ ... More >>
Booth and Woodstock Racing Commodore caught up in dramas
Monday, 27 May 2013, 2:37 pm | Woodstock Racing
Massively disappointing is the only way leading V8 SuperTourer competitor Andy Booth could summarise his crash-shortened race weekend at Pukekohe. More >>
Lawrence re-claims Suzuki series lead after final race win
Monday, 27 May 2013, 2:34 pm | Winger Suzuki Sport Cup
The weekend’s torrid third round for the 2013 Winger Suzuki Swift Sport Cup see-sawed between title contenders Andrew Vincent and Shaun Lawrence with a final race win at the Pukekohe Raceway returning Lawrence to the top of the table. More >>
Joseph Parker v Francois Botha
Monday, 27 May 2013, 12:12 pm | Duco Events
Fresh from his victory over Brice Ritani-Coe in LA, New Zealand boxing sensation Joseph Parker is preparing to go into battle against South African Francois “The White Buffalo” Botha. More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: Kiwi dollar at 4 ½ year high vs. Aust rival
Monday, 27 May 2013, 12:11 pm | Businesswire
May 27 (BusinessDesk) – The New Zealand dollar rose to a four-and-a-half year high against its Australian counterpart as investors become more attracted to the smaller partner’s higher interest rates. More >>
EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup: NZL Sailing Team in Top Two
Friday, 24 May 2013, 4:18 pm | Yachting New Zealand
The NZL Sailing Team are back in the hunt for medals with three crews lying top two across three classes as 2013 Delta Lloyd Regatta, on in the Netherlands right now, heads into the business end with just two days to go. More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: NZ trade surplus smaller than expected
Friday, 24 May 2013, 12:10 pm | Businesswire
May 24 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand’s trade surplus was smaller than economists were picking as a flood of imported petrol more than offset an increasing amount of meat exports. More >>
Evans Qualifies On Front Row At Monaco
Friday, 24 May 2013, 11:52 am | Mitch Evans Motorsport
New Zealand’s Mitch Evans will start on the front row after qualifying second fastest for tonight’s GP2 race on the streets of Monaco. He was pipped by just 0.016s from taking pole position at the world’s most famous street race. More >>
EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup: Good Gains for NZL on Day Two
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 3:02 pm | Yachting New Zealand
Bitter conditions meant the beanies were back out in Medemblik, the Netherlands for day two of the 2013 Delta Lloyd Regatta, round two of the EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup. More >>
Lightfoot Looks to Build On Speed At Pukekohe
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 1:21 pm | Lightfoot Motorsport
Mike ‘Buzz’ Lightfoot is looking to build on some strong pace from the opening two rounds of the UDC V8 Ute Series at round three, which runs at Pukekohe Park Raceway this weekend. More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: FPH shares jump to 3-year high on earnings
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 12:22 pm | Businesswire
May 23 (BusinessDesk) – Shares in Fisher & Paykel Health jumped to a three-year high after the maker of breathing masks and respirators beat its annual earnings guidance and flagged better times ahead. More >>
From the Farm: (Sitting On) The Dock Of The Bay
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 8:15 am | Businesswire
It is barely a month since Chinese Minister of Agriculture Hang Changfu met New Zealand Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy in Wellington and signed the “Strategic Plan on Promoting Agricultural Cooperation between New Zealand and China.” More >>
Big Chiefs Visit the Little Ill and Injured
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 4:43 pm | Waikato District Health Board
Smiles adorned the faces of some of Waikato’s most ill and injured kids this morning (Wednesday 22 May), as the rugby heroes of the Waikato region spilled into Waikato Hospital’s Waikids wards and clinics. More >>
Citroen’s concept GT supercar on way to CRC Speedshow
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 3:30 pm | CRC Speedshow
The white GT by Citroën show-car, first displayed at the 2008 Paris Motor Show, comes to New Zealand specifically for July’s CRC Speedshow in Auckland and a selection of dealership activities with Citroën’s newly-appointed local distributor Sime ... More >>
Cunningham ticks the boxes at Rally Whangarei
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 2:55 pm | RCK Contractors Rally Team
Clint Cunningham has come away from round two of the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship, Rally Whangarei, happy despite an off-road excursion on day two that ended his rally. More >>
Good run continues at Whangarei for Campbell
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 2:48 pm | Campbell Rally Sport
Phil Campbell’s strong start to the Brian Green Property Group New Zealand Rally Championship has continued with a strong and close fought second place in round two, the International Rally of Whangarei. More >>
So close yet so far for Cox at Whangarei
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 2:39 pm | Cox Motorsport
Only a stumble at the final hurdle prevented Rotorua rally driver Sloan Cox from a fantastic podium finish at the International Rally of Whangarei over the weekend. More >>
Holder's Fiesta Takes Flight At APRC
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 12:26 pm | Holder Brothers Racing
With Dave Holder, and co-driver Josh Theobald, looking settled and fast in the Stella Pumps & Stadium Finance Fiesta, they had a fourteen second lead over the R2 Fiestas 15km into the first stage. However unfortunately at around the 18km mark this all ... More >>
Fryer a Star of the Future
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 12:13 pm | Bikesport NZ
The 15-year-old Yamaha ace was the dominant force in the junior grade at the fourth and final round of the New Zealand Cross-country Championships in Central Hawke's Bay on Saturday, hinting that there’s plenty more where that came from and possibly ... More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: Vodafone keeps losing customers
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 12:12 pm | Businesswire
May 22 (BusinessDesk) – Vodafone New Zealand has shed customers for a ninth straight quarter in the first three months of the year, and has lost 7.1 percent of its mobile connections over that time. More >>
Lester to Turn First Ever Laps of New Korean Circuit
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 11:44 am | Petronas Syntium Team
Kiwi Jono Lester will have the pleasure of being the first to race at the new Inje Speedium complex in South Korea as the Super Taikyu Endurance Series heads offshore for the second round of its 2013 championship. More >>
Gaunt Ready to Resume Battle at Brother 350
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 2:39 pm | Tasman Motorsports Group
Tasman Motorsports Group(TMG) driver Daniel Gaunt says he’s ready to resume the championship battle at the Brother 350, this weekend at Pukekohe - Round 3 of the BNT V8 SuperTourers championship. More >>
NZL Sailing Team Crews Racing in Medemblik
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 2:28 pm | Yachting New Zealand
The 2013 EUROSAF Champions Sailing Cup rolls on with day one of the Delta Lloyd Regatta about to get underway in Medemblik, the Netherlands. More >>
V8 Supercars Caps Off Record Major Events Season
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 1:21 pm | Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development
The return of the V8 Supercars for the ITM 400 Auckland has proved to be an economic powerhouse for the Auckland economy. More >>
Kiwi Girls Stuns Americans
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 12:55 pm | Bikesport NZ
New Zealand's Courtney Duncan took the opening round of the Women's Motocross Triple Crown by storm in the United States at the weekend. More >>
Otago Symposium Attracts World-class Sport Specialists
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 12:52 pm | Otago Polytech
Key members of the Otago sporting community will gather to hear from experts who work closely with some of the world’s most elite athletes, when they attend a physical conditioning symposium at Otago Polytechnic’s Otago Institute of Sport and Adventure ... More >>
Red Bull – Mates in Alaska - Episode One
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 12:48 pm | Red Bull
New Zealand snowboarder Jake Koia travels to Haines, Alaska, with long-time friend Roland Morley-Brown for the Red Bull Mates in Alaska series. More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: Kiwis crossing the Tasman in fewer numbers
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 12:06 pm | Businesswire
May 21 (BusinessDesk) – The number of kiwis quitting New Zealand for better opportunities in Australia have dropped to the fewest in two-and-a-half years. More >>
Startup Boosting Investment In Club Sports
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 11:33 am | Teamisto
Convincing sponsors to inject $10,000 in the piggy bank of every grassroots sports club in the world is the core mission for digital startup Teamisto. More >>
V8ST Aiming to Develop TV Offering
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 11:17 am | BNT V8 SuperTourers
BNT V8 SuperTourers today confirmed that it will be launching its new TV product in conjunction with this weekend’s Brother 350 at Pukekohe. More >>
Kiwi Greyhound Has Tongues Wagging In Australia
Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 10:57 am | Greyhound Racing New Zealand
Aussie race goers were left with red faces following Kiwi-owned Clone Your Own’s win at a prestigious race meeting in Melbourne last Thursday. The 30 month old chaser took out the lucrative Harrison Dawson Final at Sandown in a tight race, pocketing ... More >>
Golden Debut For Javier Gomez Noya At Challenge Barcelona
Monday, 20 May 2013, 5:03 pm | Challenge Barcelona
19 May 2013 - In his first middle distance competition, Javier Gómez Noya spectacularly won both the Half Distance Triathlon European Championship and Challenge Half Barcelona this Sunday. Camilla Pedersen (DEN) took the women’s title for the second year ... More >>
Broadford Bittersweet for Carlton Dry Honda Racing
Monday, 20 May 2013, 2:35 pm | Fluid PR
The team celebrated a return to the podium wit hJosh Cachia, who took second overall in the MX2 class, but were left rueing, when Ford Dale tweaked his knee in Superpole and was forced to retire from the event. More >>
Gilmour Upbeat After New Car Shows Its Pace
Monday, 20 May 2013, 2:20 pm | Emma Gilmour
Normally, retirement on the final special stage of a rally would leave Emma Gilmour bitterly disappointed. This weekend, however, the Dunedin driver’s spirits are high despite parking up her Suzuki Swift Maxi rally car just a few kilometres from ... More >>
CARRINGTON MAKES IT A DOUBLE
Monday, 20 May 2013, 12:42 pm | Canoe Racing NZ
Lisa Carrington made it a double header at World Cup 2 in the Czech Republic yesterday after winning her Olympic event the K1 200m hot on the heels of a win in the K1 500m, a new event for Lisa. The 200m win in a time of 41.42 was a little slower than the ... More >>
Rnd 1 2013 CIK-FIA European (Kart) Championship: KZ1 & KZ2
Monday, 20 May 2013, 12:29 pm | Kart Sport
Top Kiwi karter Daniel Bray (GP/TM/Bridgestone) was quick but unlucky at the first round of this year's CIK-FIA European Championship meeting for KZ1 and KZ2 class karts at Wackersdorf in Germany over the weekend. More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: Independent Liquor buys Mill Liquorsave chain
Monday, 20 May 2013, 12:11 pm | Businesswire
May 20 (BusinessDesk) – Independent Liquor has agreed to buy the Mill Liquorsave bottlestore chain for an undisclosed sum as it looks to head off rivals’ retail outlets it says are blocking its brands. More >>
Kiwi Steals Singapore’s Golden Horseshoe Series
Monday, 20 May 2013, 11:52 am | NZ Bloodstock
The kiwi bred War Affair (NZ) confirmed his status as Singapore’s most talented two-year-old with a dominant win in the last leg of Singapore’s Golden Horseshoe Series, the S$325,000 Sgp-2 Aushorse Golden Horseshoe (1200m) at Kranji on Friday ... More >>
Rangi Ruru Road Racers Reap Rewards
Monday, 20 May 2013, 11:38 am | Rangi Ruru Girls' School
Rangi Ruru Girls’ School further cemented their position as current Regional and National title-holders after a blistering effort at the Canterbury SS Road Race last Thursday in Hagley Park. More >>
New Zone Aims for Netball to be the Sport of Choice
Monday, 20 May 2013, 11:31 am | Netball Central
The new Netball Central Zone celebrated the beginning of a new era for regional netball at a Grand Launch on Sunday. The event, which took place at the Hotel Coachman in Palmerston North, featured the introduction of the zone’s inaugural U23 team and ... More >>
Twelve Stage Records Take Paddon to Victory In Whangarei
Monday, 20 May 2013, 11:27 am | Hayden Paddon Rallysport Global Ltd
New Zealand’s top rally pairing Hayden Paddon and John Kennard demonstrated their world-class abilities with a convincing four-minute win at this weekend’s New Zealand Rally Championship round in Whangarei. More >>
Kawasaki Ace Wins Class and Takes Second Overall
Monday, 20 May 2013, 11:19 am | Bikesport NZ
Raglan’s Jason Dickey wrapped up another successful season aboard his Kawasaki KX250F at the weekend, finishing runner-up in the senior grade at the fourth and final round of the 2013 New Zealand Cross-country Championships. More >>
Finland’s Lappi Wins 2013 International Rally of Whangarei
Monday, 20 May 2013, 10:32 am | International Rally of Whangarei
Visiting New Zealand for their first time, 22-year-old Finn Esapekka Lappi and co-driver Janne Ferm have taken out this year’s opening round of the FIA Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) with a start-to-finish leading performance at the International ... More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: S&P puts knockers on small local banks
Friday, 17 May 2013, 12:35 pm | Businesswire
May 17 (BusinessDesk) – Global ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has raised the spectre of downgrading eight smaller banks in New Zealand over the country’s heating property market and continuing reliance on foreign investment. More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: Telecom profits crimped by lower prices
Thursday, 16 May 2013, 12:32 pm | Patrick Smellie
May 16 (BusinessDesk) - Telecom expects profits to be under pressure as it faces more price competition in its fixed line market and margins are squeezed at its Gen-i unit. More >>
MIDDAY UPDATE: NZ housing overvalued by 25%, IMF says
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 12:14 pm | Businesswire
May 15 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand’s heated property market is already overvalued by about 25 percent, and if prices keep rising will spur an interest rate hike, according to the International Monetary Fund. More >>
Kiwi Wins Karate World Championship For the First Time
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 1:23 pm | New Zealand Japan Karate Association
Auckland, 14 May 2013 – Vincent Cook, a member of the New Zealand Japan Karate Association ( http://www.jkaauckland.co.nz/ ) has won the premier event at the prestigious World Karate Confederation Championships in Melbourne which is the first time a New ... More >>
From the Farm: Dairy exposure
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 1:21 pm | Businesswire
Synlait Milk was a name fund managers and brokers sneered at in 2009, giving its advisers such lukewarm feedback that the Canterbury-based firm abandoned plans for a $150 million IPO. It turned to Bright Dairy & Food for support, giving the ... More >>
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