Air NZ has edged out New Zealand Post to claim the top spot in a study of corporation reputation, while Telecom has avoided the wooden spoon - but only because Exxon Mobil has just joined the list.

Fonterra has named Dutch dairy executive Theo Spierings as its new chief executive.

The troubled management of the collapsed Blue Chip empire has been laid bare in company documents.

Former Nathans directors Mervyn Doolan, Donald Young and Kenneth Moses have been found guilty on five charges of breaching the Securities Act. They have been remanded on bail and will be sentenced on September 2.

Taxpayers would pay most of the cost of repairing future earthquake damage to uninsured Christchurch infrastructure, a spokesman for Finance Minister Bill English says.

It's a fallacy that businesses can run with no owner participation, says David Newport, director of Switch Business.

If you can change the way the game is played in your type of business you can often do remarkably well with very little effort.

Glass maker Metro GlassTech is the latest heavily indebted overseas private equity owned business to get into strife with its bankers, says one report.

Qantas hopes 350 - or five per cent - of its cabin crew will take up voluntary redundancy.

Peter Boxall asks: What makes the workforce happy, and how can we build on it?

Let's look at why customer service is so important to the bottom line.