The European Union's agreement to pursue a free trade pact with this country represents a significant step forward.

Warren Adamson is sales director for winery Craggy Range.

You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find your prince, says Sharon-May McCrostie, on the subject of finding good overseas distributors.

The owner of the Mr Whippy master franchise says Auckland's frozen dessert market is close to reaching "saturation point".

More foreign buyers are likely to make bids for New Zealand assets this year with China at the forefront, according to a report by Chapman Tripp.

Many businesses think the raising of the official cash rate by the Reserve Bank was precipitate.

Companies that want to list and raise money on a new market proposed by the stock exchange won't have to provide investors with prospective financial information.

The New Zealand sharemarket may get a new addition in the form of the country's biggest equipment rental company, Hirepool, in the first half of this year.

Fonterra says it has accepted charges laid against it by the Ministry for Primary Industries over events that led to last year's recall of whey protein concentrate.

Reserve Bank mortgage lending restrictions are cooling the housing market, a top economist says, because national sales volumes have fallen 13.4 per cent since October.

Fisher & Paykel Appliances has unveiled plans for a state-of-the-art new research and development hub at its East Tamaki headquarters.