By Jonathan Underhill June 30 (BusinessDesk) - Blair Bryant has resigned from the board of Powerhouse Ventures and as a result the ASX-listed, Christchurch-based technology incubator has cancelled a
By Paul McBeth in Shanghai April 22 (BusinessDesk) - Former Prime Minister Jenny Shipley wants New Zealand firms to take advantage of her appointment to the board of the Boao Forum, which is made
The company seeking to bring 25 electric seagliders to New Zealand says it has secured a financing deal to cover $145 million of its $700m order. Ocean Flyer announced the $700m order with Regent, a
By Loukia Gyftopoulou and Silla Brush (Bloomberg) -- It’s official at last: the Age of Bogle is over. A half-century after John “Jack” Bogle founded Vanguard Group, the roughly US$9 trillion (
(Bloomberg) -- Tesla Inc. is looking to woo its unusually large base of retail investors to get approval for chief executive officer Elon Musk’s $56 billion (NZ$91.4b) pay package. To help lead that
(Bloomberg) – Warner Bros. Discovery Inc increased an offer to buy back debt from investors by US$750 million as part of a plan to slash its debt and interest expenses. The owner of CNN and HBO is
This week New Zealand Inc waved the white flag over its exports of white gold. Fonterra said it would fully or partially divest from its consumer business all at once, including Fonterra Oceania and
By Min Jeong Lee (Bloomberg) -- SoftBank Group Corp.’s flagship Vision Fund has quietly sold off or written down billions of dollars’ worth of its publicly-listed holdings in recent years, a sign
Global investment manager BlackRock has yet to make any investments via its dedicated New Zealand climate fund, which was announced with significant fanfare by former prime minister Chris Hipkins last
By Jonathan Underhill May 27 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand shares rose as better-than-expected full-year earnings from Fisher & Paykel Healthcare added to upbeat sentiment for the local market. Mainfre
New Zealand should be capitalising on our covid-free status and the global reputation of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern but the government still has a counterproductive "fortress New Zealand" mentality
By Tina Morrison Oct. 28 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand may be heading for a "super El Nino" weather pattern this summer, reminiscent of 1997/98 when drought parched the east of the country and sapped
It doesn't take too much thought to conclude the New Zealand Superannuation Fund has sold NZ Inc down the river when it comes to the Metlifecare takeover. With the Super Fund having agreed to sell to.
By Jonathan Underhill June 28 (BusinessDesk) - Powerhouse Ventures has called a special meeting of shareholders to vote on removing Blair Bryant from the board of the ASX-listed, Christchurch-based t
A judgment is expected to be delivered on Thursday. The S&P/NZX 50 index declined 122.94 points or 1.03% to 11,759.15....
Ben and Peter talk to Spark CEO Jolie Hodson and NZIER principal economist Christina Leung about the recent research into how adopting more advanced digital tech can boost industry output by up to $26
The company I founded in 2009, Ockham Residential, would not exist today if it weren’t for Kiwibank. At the start of our journey, in the middle of the GFC (global financial crisis), I approached s
A lot has been made of the fact we now have a business-like leader in government, but far less noise has been made about the fact his approach doesn’t really represent how business leaders operate i
By Suze Metherell Oct. 20 (BusinessDesk) - Diligent Corp, the governance app developer, has acquired BoardLink from financial services firm Thomson Reuters for US$10 million in cash to widen its port
The rest of the economy will have to pay a higher price than otherwise if agricultural methane emissions are not required to assist with reducing the rise in global temperature. That is a key finding.
Māori are over-represented in just about every social ill the government measures. However, things are changing. So much so, in fact, that the Māori economy may be just the kind of new engine of gro
By Jonathan Underhill May 31 (BusinessDesk) - Metlifecare has named Richard Thomson, Air New Zealand's general manager commercial, as chief financial officer starting in mid-September. Thomson started
New Zealand now has 15 Masters of Wine (MW). Globally, there are only 418 – 149 women and 269 men – in 32 countries. Since the first exam nearly 70 years ago, just 493 people have become MWs. New
Air New Zealand has appointed Richard Thomson as its new chief financial officer. He will start at the airline in early 2021. Outgoing CFO Jeff McDowall will depart Air NZ after the airline’s capita
By Rebecca Howard May 7 (BusinessDesk) - The Ministry of Social Development has declared a seasonal labour shortage across the Bay of Plenty in a bid to find at least 1,200 people to pick and pack the
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