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The disrupters: Retail tech shake-up
Disruption is the better, sexier, more efficient and exciting way of doing things that are taken for granted, says Vend chief executive Vaughan Rowsell.
Disruption is the better, sexier, more efficient and exciting way of doing things that are taken for granted, says Vend chief executive Vaughan Rowsell.
The conventional wisdom is that the recent crash in share prices will not have a big impact on China's economic growth but HSBC's co-head of Asian economic research is not so sure.
The markets regard it as virtually certain the Reserve Bank will cut the official cash rate from 3.25 to 3 per cent on Thursday and they will focus instead on what the accompanying comments signal....
Veritas, owner of the Mad Butcher chain says it expects profits to rise, despite tough times for some of its independent store owners.
Andrew Hrothgar Robinson has been sentenced to six years in jail this morning for stealing more than $3 million.
It's one of our best known retail chains, but for the Mad Butcher, these are challenging times. Christopher Adams investigates.
The Chinese market crash and new rules combine to make investors look further afield.
Reserve Bank may take interest rates to a new record low by October.
US retail sales slid 0.3pc in in June, the weakest since February, lowering expectations the Fed will hike interest rates in September.
Kathmandu's new chief executive, French born Xavier Simonet, is already eyeing up global growth for the outdoor clothing and equipment retailer despite its current market struggles.
A slowdown in the Chinese economy isn't expected to crimp demand for education in New Zealand.
BP New Zealand generated its smallest earnings in more than a decade due to falling oil prices.
New Zealand shares fell over uncertainty surrounding the future of the Tiwai Point smelter.
Kathmandu's new boss, Xavier Simonet, is not letting a takeover offer distract him as he works to turn around the embattled adventurewear chain.
Auckland's median house price rose a record 26 per cent to $755,000 over the past year.
It's impossible to know where the rout of Chinese stocks will end but there's little doubt its effects will wash over Australia one way or another, says Christopher Niesche.
The NZ-founded carbon recycling company is shifting into commercialisation from its previous development phase.
US faith-based merchants contributed to a 39 per cent boost in the mobile payments app developer's revenues.
NZX says a lack of basic shareholder protections could tarnish the reputation of the country's capital markets.
Business confidence has fallen to a three-year low, led by regions like Waikato, Canterbury and Southland particularly exposed to the dairy sector.
The Reserve Bank of Australia kept its cash rate unchanged at a record low 2 per cent for a second month, saying accommodative monetary policy is needed in an economy growing slower than its....
Joyce this week got cabinet approval to develop what he calls "the New Zealand Investment Attraction Strategy".
Economics editor Brian Fallow says today's business opinion survey shows we've passed the peak of economic growth.
The country's business confidence plunged as companies became pessimistic about profitability expectations.
The Greek rejection of the creditor bailout package has lead to a fall in world shares, oil and the European currency.
Silver Fern Farms says the group agitating for change at New Zealand's biggest meat processor has misled shareholders.
The owner of the Sams Creek Gold Project, which sits atop what could be New Zealand's biggest undeveloped gold deposit, has slashed the value of the resource.