Business
Law & Regulation
AJ Park to buy rival Baldwins for $7.9m
AJ Park plans to buy rival Baldwins Intellectual Property for $7.9 million, which would bring together two of the nation's top IP firms under the ownership of Australia's IPH. Baldwins was established in 1896 and serves clients including multi-national corporations, universit...
Economy
Whale Watch Kaikoura receives tourism grant
Kaikoura’s landmark tourism outfit, Whale Watch, has been given a $1.5 million grant from the government’s tourism support fund.Whale Watch Kaikoura is the third recipient of funds from the strategic tourism asset protection programme, which was set up to make sure the country...
Services
Google NZ books more business locally, pays $511m to sister companies
Google New Zealand recognised more business locally in 2019, reflecting the global crackdown on the tax affairs of multinational software firms, but still paid more than half a billion dollars to related companies.The local unit of the world’s dominant search engine operator repo...
Infrastructure
Jonathan Hill: JONATHAN HILL: The Air NZ refund saga - who benefits and who should own our airline?
The Air New Zealand refund saga has already deeply damaged what has long been New Zealand’s most trusted brand. In keeping customers’ money to effectively bail it out, bigger questions must now be asked as to who should actually own the airline. In the interests of full disclosur...
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