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<i>Gill South</i>: Joining forces gets Christchurch companies back on their feet
Collaboration has helped many of the city's businesses to get up and running after the quake.

One Kiwi replaces another at GM
Finance chief of US carmaker hands over reins to fellow New Zealander.

Liddell resigns from GM - won't rule out Fonterra job
Kiwi high flyer Chris Liddell is stepping down as chief financial officer at GM, and isn't ruling out a tilt at Fonterra's top job.

<i>Deborah Hill Cone</i>: Learn how to fight, not how to fit in
Tooth and claw competition is what we need, not John Key's mothering.

<i>Arthur Chin</i>: Doing business with China cultural nous helps smooth the way
A few key principles make for better relationships.

ANZ says shift to single IT platform and restructure to cost $220m
ANZ New Zealand says its plans to put the ANZ and National Banks onto one IT platform and restructure management by laying off 45 staff and establishing a new structure will cost it a total of $220m.

Nuplex paying $3m to shareholders over disclosure breach
Nuplex Industries will pay $3m to shareholders as part of a settlement with the Securities Commission after failing to disclose it breached a debt covenant in 2008.

<i>Gill South</i>: For some chief executives, it's more than a job - it's a vocation
Engage your head and your heart, bosses advised.

Union critical of how bookstores were put under administration
The National Distribution Union (NDU) has criticised the owners of troubled bookshops Whitcoulls and Borders for putting workers' jobs on the line without consultation.

Union to meet administrator over bookshop chains
Union representatives will meet the administrators of the troubled Whitcoulls and Borders bookshop chains on Monday.

Poor success rate for voluntary administration, says insolvency specialist
Voluntary administration - which Whitcoulls is now in - has about a 4 per cent success rate, says a New Zealand insolvency specialist.