The court cases, I submit, suggest that Telecom and Vodafone are both more inwardly focused on keeping their large contingent of lawyers in employment, writes Dita De Boni.

Fonterra said it had been fined $900,000 following the conclusion of a review by Chinese authorities into the pricing of dairy products in the people's republic.

China will not tolerate another slip-up from Fonterra, with the dairy giant caught up in its third contamination scare there since 2008, says a marketing expert.

Tourism Holdings' United States operation is about to expand with the launch there of the Britz brand.

Marketing to children now starts in infancy, but a conference in Auckland tomorrow will ask what we can do about it, reports Simon Collins.

Brand-building businesswoman Maureen Case epitomises the modern approach to selling luxury.

Rob Fyfe is stepping up his involvement with Icebreaker, with the former Air New Zealand CEO set to become the Kiwi outdoor clothing brand's executive chairman later this year.

Hong Kong-based adman Keith Smith has been in and out of China for 20 years. Nobody - Chinese or Westerners - would have guessed in the mid-1990s that the consumer and advertising market would explode the way it has, Smith says.

Christine Sharma, co-owner of De Vere Textiles which has the RUBY fashion brand, on the need for more collaboration in the NZ fashion industry.

Simon Pound, director of Ingrid Starnes on holding a show together with fellow fashion label, twenty-seven names, at last year's New Zealand Fashion Week.

William Hoare, chairman, of the Family of Twelve talks about the story behind the marketing partnership between 12 NZ wineries.

John Constable, of Constable Hurst Architects on collaborating with the Kingsland Business Society on a video about running a business in the area. He has created a hub for creative businesses at his building, 6 Kingsland Tce.

The Kingsland Business Community commissioned a film to help promote the inner Auckland area as a place to work and run a business.

There was talk of mince. There were memories of melted cheese. There were amiable queues disturbing the autumn morning. But most of all, when Georgie Pie relaunched this week after a 15-year absence, there were free servings of nostalgia.