Air New Zealand have begun the retrofit to standardise their 777 fleet to make a better customer experience. NZ Herald writer Grant Bradley spoke with Viv de Bues, General manager of Aircratf Maintenance about the new upgrades and changes being carried out.

Bus company NakedBus is launching what it says is NZ's first bus services offering sleeper beds. Naked Bus is touting the service as the first of its kind in this country. The bus has a toilet on board and will call at Hamilton and Palmerston North. It will offer passengers wifi and a food service. Video supplied.

The New Zealand beef industry is thriving on the back of a big improvement in international prices. Droughts in the United States and Australia have played havoc with global supply, which has taken prices to record highs. Commodities markets can be volatile and hard to predict, Beef and Lamb New Zealand chief executive, Scott Champion, says. But Champion, talking to the New Zealand Herald as part of the "Meet the CEOs" video series, explains why he thinks high prices may be around for some time to come.

Bronze sculptures of Hairy Maclary and his friends are due to be installed on Tauranga’s redeveloped waterfront but support is needed for the final leg.

Sir Ralph Norris took over as chairman of New Zealand’s biggest listed company after Ralph Waters retired. He talks here to Herald Property Editor Anne Gibson.

Z Energy chief executive Mike Bennetts talks to the Business Herald's Grant Bradley about petrol prices, changing trends in fuel use and how his company is responding.

First home buyers in Auckland might have to consider an apartment in order to get onto the property ladder, Prime Minister John Key says. His comments follow the release of new CVs for Auckland, which have soared since 2011, particularly in city-fringe suburbs. There are fears the mostly higher CVs could lead to rates increases well in excess of the 3.7 per cent planned for homeowners by Mayor Len Brown next year.

Jonathan Mason - Adjunct Professor, University of Auckland Business School.

Campbell Barbour, chief executive of NZ Retail Property Group, speaks to Herald Property Editor Anne Gibson about big Auckland developments including his company's $1b Westgate plans and a tower scheme for Milford.

A former director of South Canterbury Finance has been found guilty of making false statements, but two former SCF heads have today been cleared of any wrongdoing in what had been billed as the "biggest fraud in New Zealand's history". Former South Canterbury Finance (SCF) chief executive Lachie McLeod, 50, and former director, accountant Robert White, 70, were found not guilty on all charges by Justice Paul Heath after a lengthy and complex trial. Ex-director, lawyer Edward Sullivan, 72, has been found guilty on five of nine charges, including making false statements and misuse of a document for pecuniary advantage.

The RBNZ has prepared a short animated video about how money works - its functions and the role the Reserve Bank plays in it.

BNZ chief executive Anthony Healy talks to the Business Herald’s Christopher Adams about his first five months in the top job, a recent management reshuffle and the bank’s strategy around tackling non-traditional competitors such as peer-to-peer lenders.

Are New Zealanders becoming better at managing money - what particular problems are faced by women, Maori or the Pasifika communities? Retirement Commissioner Diane Maxwell talks about Money Week and financial literacy.

Airbus’ five A350-900 test aircraft took to the skies for an impressive formation flight on September 29 2014. Video supplied by Airbus.

Prime Minister John Key says an inquiry is needed into whether there was sufficient back-up in place after the power cuts in Auckland yesterday - but has warned that if that inquiry finds better backup systems are required it will contribute to higher power prices. Mr Key said there would need to be an inquiry into what went wrong and the response to that. "We know there was a fire, the question is was there enough redundancy built in there." He said if that inquiry found greater contingency systems were needed, it would have a cost. Vector was a controlled monopoly and its charging and costs were set by the Commerce Commission.

Prime Minister John Key gives his thoughts on the New Zealand dollar and the Reserve Bank intervening to try and push down its value.

Peter Mence, chief executive of Argosy Property speaks to property editor Anne Gibson as part of the Meet the CEOs video series.

Greenpeace protesters have disrupted a petroleum conference being held in Auckland this morning, bursting into a room while Energy Minister Simon Bridges was speaking. About half a dozen women breached tight security and lobbed high pitched noise emitting devices under the seats. They were then bundled out of the room by a team of security staff and unfurled banners disputing Statoil's exploration programme in Northland. The women were dressed in business suits and had apparently faked identification and conference credentials to get into the room.

Kiwis eager to get their hands on the new iPhone 6 and 6+ have queued overnight - and in some cases, for a week online. The highly anticipated phone was officially released in New Zealand at 12.01 this morning. Vodafone stores in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin opened their doors at 12.01am for keen Apple fans. Spark (formerly Telecom) tried something different, allowing customers to pre-book their places in online queues by registering an oversized novelty "emoji" - pictures popularly used in text messages - which are printed off and hold their space in the queue.

This video supplied by Reviveaphone documents the insane project of a man traveling halfway around the world to get the first iPhone 6 and then dump it in a pitcher of beer.

Herald property editor Anne Gibson talks to Graham Darlow, chief executive of Fletcher Construction about its $2b order book.

Solid Energy has fronted up to answer claims that it has been technically feasible to re-enter the mine for almost a year.

APN, the company which owns the New Zealand Herald, is to relaunch as part of a new brand, NZME. APN, The Radio Network and GrabOne, are unifying their print, radio, digital and e-commerce brands under New Zealand Media and Entertainment.

NZ tourism has released a new video as part of a new campaign encouraging young visitors to try five extreme activities within a day. Watch adventurer Chuck Berry try them out in just one hour.

This time lapse video shows the interior of a Qatar Airways A380 superjumbo being installed

John Dalzell is chief executive of Waterfront Auckland, a council-controlled organisation whose biggest project is revitalising the western area at the Wynyard Quarter.

Fran O'Sullivan presents the 2014 Mood of the Boardroom report from New Zealand's top CEO's. Most are expecting revenue growth and bottom line profit increases. Overall, 51 per cent of respondents are feeling more optimistic about the New Zealand economy than they were last year, and 54 per cent are more positive about the prospects for their own industry.

Watch back the New Zealand Herald's Mood Of The Boardroom event, with National’s Bill English and Labour’s David Parker debating economic policy before an audience of business leaders at Auckland's Langham Hotel.

Mood of the Boardroom 2014 has been presented and Anne Gibson and Jamie Gray get CEO reaction and we hear from the two finance spokesmen David Parker and Bill English.