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Success: Selling with a touch of cool
Vending cart maker brings a little Old World style to mobile food sales.

Kate Ross: Are they for real?
"I've never paid for a prostitute or stripper." Recruitment agent Kate Ross on some unusual job applications..

Early slips on the road to profit
Private equity may be in rude good health today, but its first 10 years were marked by disharmony and quite a few failures, recalls Martin Goldfinch, ACC private equity manager.

Private equity, Kiwi style
Debt, disaster, and quick flicks? New Zealand private equity firms prefer a lower-profile, longer-term approach, they tell Nick Smith.

Insolvency - Kill or cure?
They're our corporate doctors. But do receivers and liquidators deliver the right medicine, or just bleed the patient dry? Karyn Scherer reports.

<i>Your business:</i> Giving travellers a chance to help out
Voluntourism catching on with holidaymakers and companies.

<i>Get The Answers:</i> Much to gain in teaming up with another business but there are risks
If the groundwork is done correctly, both parties can benefit, says Paul Davies.

Couple in fraud case bailed to Coromandel
An Auckland couple charged with a $15 million fraud have been bailed to a Coromandel getaway.