Espressoworkz sells automatic espresso machines and coffee beans to offices. It owns NZ roasted coffee range Eden Coffee plus has strong wholesale and retail business lines to compliment its office business.

New Zealand has become the second country in the world to approve plain cigarette packets.

The Government is expecting legal challenges over plain cigarette packaging and has warned they could cost taxpayers up to $6 million.

Prime Minister John Key says he is expecting legal challenges if the Government goes ahead with a plan to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.

Better-informed customers have changed the rules of the sales game argues a new book on the part of persuasion argues..

How much money does a business spend trying to get customers? Trying to get people to cross their threshold? When that happens - why ignore them?

It is a time of change for BRR, a leading New Zealand brand strategy company, which started as the Brian Richards consultancy in 1993 and was incorporated in 1999 as BRR.

A company is like an iceberg - 90 per cent of it is underwater. The bit jutting above is the brand, the visual surface of the company.

Tourist boats in the pristine Milford Sound are contributing to a copper concentration so high it could kill 20 per cent of marine life in the port area.

Part of Coca-Cola's business strategy is to build brand loyalty and trust in a highly publicised and philanthropic manner - and to a captive audience, writes Darren Powell.