Opinion
Opinion and analysis from Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Cameron Bagrie and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
David Cohen: OPINION: Muddled orchestration in RNZ's Concert Radio pitch
Not many people bought the first Velvet Underground album, but everyone who did went out and started a band. Or so the old line has it.Not that many people have been listening to Concert FM in recent times, either, but everyone who has seems to be making a beeline for the nearest...
Technology
Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: Hart hits the jackpot again while Watson flounders
It’s hard to believe but 20 years ago a major debate was whether Graeme Hart or Eric Watson would be New Zealand’s next business megastar.At the beginning of 2000, when Hart was 44 and Watson 40, they had both made their first $100 million and were in a mad rush to acquire furthe...
Infrastructure
Gavin Evans: OPINION: Emissions leakage risk real
Twenty years ago, New Zealand made virtually all its cement at two local plants. Now there’s only one – Golden Bay near Whangarei – and that’s meeting about 60 percent of our needs.The balance is imported – mostly from Japan - with a carbon content estimated by Golden Bay to be a...
Services
Brian Gaynor: Sporting Life: Tennis has a great business model
Australian OpenThe Australian Open is a fantastic tennis, business and social occasion.As far as the social side is concerned, former A2 Milk chief executive Jane Hrdlicka, the chair of Tennis Australia, has a particularly high profile.Hrdlicka was here, there and everywhere as s...
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