Fletcher invests 'tens of millions' on prefab housing factory, joins emerging KiwiBuild providers
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 14 (BusinessDesk) - Fletcher Building plans to invest "tens of millions" of dollars in a 'panelised' housing plant in South Auckland to coincide with the KiwiBuild programme's call for the establishment of new prefabricated housing capacity. The pl...
More than half of news website traffic comes from search engines/social media: AUT research
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 6 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand news organisations depend on search engines and social media - mainly Google and Facebook - for around 53 percent of the total traffic to their websites, according to research by the Auckland University of Technology's R...
Govt's wellbeing focus a work in progress, says Robertson
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 5 (BusinessDesk) - The future of work, climate change and inequality are the "defining economic and social issues" for the Labour-led government, Finance Minister Grant Robertson told a three-day international conference on wellbeing economics, but th...
Z Energy investment in Flick Electric 'unconvincing': Woodward Partners
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 5 (BusinessDesk) - Z Energy appears to have paid a full price for its 70.1 percent stake in start-up power retailer Flick Electric without a clear path to making "a return on its (substantial) investment that will be material to its business," says Wo...
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