Boston Finance has been put into receivership less than a week after it was supposed to have repaid all of the money it owed to investors.

Around 160 women attended its first day-long Global Women forum in Auckland yesterday.

DNZ Property Fund's initial public offering is due to open on Monday.

After laying off 105 staff seven months ago, Irwin Industrial Tools is to close for good just before Christmas.

The balance of power is shifting in the competitive world of NZ advertising.

Historically, says Gill South, family businesses do better during downturns.

Chairman of freshly recapitalised Pyne Gould Corporation Sam Maling is to step down shortly, as will three other directors.

Driving through Nairobi with blood pouring from a gunshot wound is not what Alan Mountfort visualised when he answered an ad to invest in an olive grove.

The Govt has introduced a law change that will allow bosses to withhold workers' regular breaks, and instead pay for the time or trade the breaks.