The volume of manufacturing sales fell 0.7 per cent in the June 2011 quarter, after a 1.4 per cent rise in the March 2011 quarter, Statistics New Zealand said today.

About 900 F & P Healthcare production, maintenance and distribution workers at the company's Highbrook plant have given 14 days notice of strike action over a pay dispute.

Cheaper imported furniture means job losses at part of company owned by makers of Sleepyhead beds.

3D television buyers are no longer locked into a single brand of glasses under a new inititative launched by the TV manufacturing giants.

GDP growth twice as strong as forecasters picked despite earthquake