The Life
The Life is a BusinessDesk section for people with an appetite for living well, who like to celebrate the good things in life – whether that’s investing in your health and wellness or a weekend at a lodge.
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It's Grand Central for new flagship Auckland hotel
Grand Chancellor is banking on the future of Auckland tourism with its first ever new hotel build in NZ.
My Net Worth
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My Net Worth: Vena Crawley, company director and Contact Energy chief customer officer
Welcome to My Net Worth, our regular column on the lives and motivations of our country’s top business, legal and political people, in their own words. Venasio-Lorenzo (“Vena”) Crawley is the chief customer officer at Contact Energy. He also sits on the board of retirement villag...
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Review: BMW 520i – “people get the hell out of the way when this drives up behind them".
Matt Martel gets behind the wheel of the BMW 520i - a true driver's car.
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Middle aged and feeling ‘blah’? Here’s how to beat midlife inertia
Bruce Springsteen said it best: “Ageing is scary. People lose their mojo, they lose interest. You never know when you’re gonna write well again.” The Boss was, of course, talking about midlife inertia, the condition that strikes many of us after we turn 50. According to a study f...
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