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NZ commodity prices snap 7-month slide, rise 0.5 percent  in August, led by dairy

NZ commodity prices snap 7-month slide, rise 0.5 percent in August, led by dairy

Sept. 4 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand commodity prices snapped a seven-month slide in August, with gains led by dairy products and beef. The ANZ Commodity Price Index rose 0.5 percent last month to be about 15 percent weaker than they were a year ago. Five commodity prices rose,...

04 Sep 2012
Aussies launch first NZ sight-seeing flights to Antarctica since Erebus

Aussies launch first NZ sight-seeing flights to Antarctica since Erebus

By Pattrick Smellie Sept 4 (BusinessDesk) - The first sightseeing flights to Antarctica from New Zealand since the Mt Erebus disaster 33 years ago are on offer from an Australian airline, which says it’s responding to demand from kiwis for a service it has run from Melbourne for...

03 Sep 2012
IRG sells Auckland advisory business to Forsyth Barr

IRG sells Auckland advisory business to Forsyth Barr

Sept. 4 (BusinessDesk) - Investment Research Group, the financial services company that is shedding assets to become a listed shell company, has sold most of its IRG Equity Investment Advisors to brokerage Forsyth Barr. Two of its advisers will transfer to Forsyth Barr and cli...

03 Sep 2012