Contact fires latest salvo in loyalty schemes war
By Pattrick Smellie April 4 (BusinessDesk) - Contact Energy is beginning the massive task of shifting more than half its customers off the Fly Buys rewards scheme with the enticement of up to 50 cents a litre off fuel bought from BP and Caltex petrol stations by linking electr...
Momentum grows to replace the RMA
By Pattrick Smellie March 29 (BusinessDesk) - A major new report from the Productivity Commission lays the foundation for action on the growing political consensus that the Resource Management Act and associated laws are failing both cities and the natural environment and need...
CORRECT: Second Fairfax NZ senior manager jumps ship
(corrects order of departure of Campbell Mitchell and Simon Tong) By Pattrick Smellie March 21 (BusinessDesk) - Fairfax Media New Zealand has lost a second senior manager, with the company's chief marketing officer leaving the company for a job with insurer Suncorp shortly...
NZ needs more science, more trees, fewer beasts to beat carbon emissions
By Pattrick Smellie March 21 (BusinessDesk) - A combination of technology breakthroughs, much more plantation forestry, and a big switch away from pastoral, particularly dairy farming, are identified as the key elements of any approach New Zealand takes to reducing its carbon...
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