Prices of dairy products recorded their smallest gain this year, edging up to a new record.

Rainbow Confectionery has doubled its capacity with the acquisition of an Australian confectionery plant.

Labour's Clayton Cosgrove has accused Solid Energy of excessive spending in the year leading up to the company's near collapse.

Strong overseas demand for the New Zealand dollar is likely to form a major barrier to attempts by the Reserve Bank to bring it down, say analysts.

Supermarkets around the world are selling Anchor milk and Fernleaf butter that is not produced on New Zealand farms.

Fonterra will launch its own infant formula brand in China this year as it looks to grab a slice of the booming market for the product in the Asian superpower.

Prices of dairy products have surged to a record in Fonterra's latest global online auction as traders competed for a shrinking volume of drought-affected milk powder.

Zespri chairman-designate Peter McBride will be relieved the Chinese court decision on the "cargo smuggling" case is finally out.

An unexpected trade surplus last month shrank the annual deficit to its smallest since last September, but economists expect the drought to widen it again.

China is becoming an increasingly important market for New Zealand wine and a group of local firms is hoping to boost sales further by making an appearance the Chengdu Wine Fair.

Prices of dairy products surged to the highest in two years in Fonterra's latest Global Dairy Trade auction as drought curtails production in the North Island.

John Walley, Chief Executive, New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association. An opinion piece on manufacturing in New Zealand.

Businesses expect the New Zealand dollar to peak around the middle of the year before declining, according to an ASB Bank survey.

World dairy prices have surged to the highest since June 2011 with the prospect of New Zealand production curtailed by drought.

Commodity prices rose in February but the strength of the local currency meant they were flat in kiwi dollar terms.

Boutique beer maker Moa is hoping to cash in on a growing craft beer market in Canada.

Testing for a toxic agricultural substance in New Zealand dairy products has found no traces of it after mid-November last year.

The hot dry summer in the North Island is helping to push world dairy prices up - but the high kiwi dollar is taking the cream off the top.

In the fifth straight gain, prices in the latest world dairy auction rose 3.1 per cent overnight, takings prices to their highest level in five months.

Rakon's share price dropped by nearly 24pc to an all-time low today after the high-tech components maker cut its earnings guidance for the second time since December.