NZ's biggest toilet paper supplier expects a $60m upgrade of its Bay of Plenty manufacturing facility to fight competition from growing Asian imports.

Auckland's economic prospects look the best in seven years, based on labour, housing construction and manufacturing activity.

Twelve Chinese-manufactured sleepouts, designed to be cheaper than renting for Aucklanders.

Sanitarium's much-publicised Marmite shortage failed to stop the food manufacturer's owner, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, from reporting a rise in revenue for its tax-free NZ businesses in the last financial year.

The Government has defended its decision to award an $8 million ferry contract to a Bangladesh company rather than a local boat builder.

Govt defends decision to award $8m ferry contract to a Bangladesh firm

A multimillion-dollar claim brought by the Ministry of Education over leaky schools has been settled.

Bedmaker Sleepyhead Manufacturing is investing $45 million in a new Auckland facility as it looks to boost exports to Asia.

Rebounding dairy production has driven the biggest gross domestic product (GDP) increase since the December 2009 quarter.

Up to 50,000 jobs are at risk as General Motors says it will stop making Holdens in Australia by the end of 2017.

GM looks set to shut down its Holden plants in Australia from 2016, joining Ford in pulling out of the country.

Iain Hosie reckons his company is a good example of the kind of manufacturing that can thrive in New Zealand.

NZ's unemployment rate slipped to 6.2 per cent in the three months ended September 30 just below the 6.3 per cent forecast.

Nuplex Industries has begun construction of its third manufacturing facility in China, which is expected to help the speciality chemicals and resins manufacturer overcome capacity constraints.

Labour leader David Cunliffe intervened in a meeting of affiliated unions at the party conference in Wigram to broker a compromise resolution on the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Having the capability to build end-to-end meat processing and packaging systems is helping Milmeq win major deals on the world stage, says chief executive Mike Lightfoot.

City's unemployment at lowest level since 2011 with average pay up to $1135 a week, writes Anne Gibson.

Sir Peter Maire's Fusion Electronics has secured a lucrative deal to supply its audio systems to Australia's Jayco.

The former boss at a Canterbury clothing maker that kitted out some of our sporting heroes has today pleaded guilty to a multi-million dollar "top end" fraud.

It is not unusual for Oliver McDermott and Blender Design co-founder Ben Thomsen to have an inventor come to them with a good idea for a product, but in need of help to market it.

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