
NZ steel operations deliver strongest earnings lift for Aussie multi-national BlueScope
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 13 (BusinessDesk) - BlueScope Steel's two Kiwi businesses, New Zealand Steel and Pacific Steel, delivered an 84 percent lift in underlying earnings in the year to June 30, outstripping strong gains across the rest of the multi-national Sydney-based bus...

New KiwiRail chair pops up on upper North Island port study group
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 9 (BusinessDesk) - Newly appointed KiwiRail chair Greg Miller has also been appointed to a five-member working group charged with writing a new upper North Island supply chain strategy to guide the government's desire to integrate port, rail and road t...

Stewart Sherriff to step down as 2Degrees CEO
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 9 (BusinessDesk) - A three month emergency stint that became a five year gig is coming to end for Stewart Sherriff, the chief executive of challenger telecommunications provider 2Degrees. The straight-talking Scotsman had been chairman of 2Degrees s...

Ardern talks up trade and economic policy on return to work
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 6 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern marked her return to public life by formally launching a national consultation process intended to improve public support for the pursuit of new international trade agreements and tackling head-on the mo...