Social entrepreneurs have plenty of lessons to offer more conventional managers.

Overseas award gives Taranaki manufacturer confidence to expand into European market.

New Zealand recorded a trade surplus of $276 million for the month of June, equivalent to 7.3 per cent of exports.

New Zealand's service sector showed signs of growth last month, but some areas of the sector still face difficult times.

An NZ company has developed a way of generating electricity from passing cars.

Activity in the manufacturing sector grew in June, the tenth consecutive month of expansion, says the latest Performance of Manufacturing Index.

Economic growth in Asia and Latin America will help the rest of the world avoid a double dip recession, says the head of the IMF.

For Steve Morrison, torture was sitting at home his factory's machines lay idle.

Global recession hit hard, but it hasn't killed off New Zealand manufacturing. Suzanne McFadden went looking for signs of life.

Maurice Davies believed Windsor Engineering had the know-how to weather any economic tempest.

Manufacturers had a surprisingly strong May, with employment growing for the first time since November 2008 and a solid lift in export and local sales, says a new survey.

Worrying signs of a stalling economic recovery have shown up in the latest Quarterly Survey of Business Opinion published this morning.