Sleepyhead, one of New Zealand's last big privately owned manufacturers, has unveiled aggressive expansion plans as it prepares to open a new $35m bed factory in Melbourne.

Canary Enterprises' success is built on taking a familiar product, then adding value.

New Zealand is braving an international backlash by going after fish species environmentalists say are unsustainably caught. Geoff Cumming reports.

Goff has spent much of the past week playing political football with two of New Zealand's major trading relationships.

Making money from inspiration requires visionary planning and long-term commitment.

The version of the free market we had wasn't really free or perfect.

Prices slipped 1.3 per cent at Fonterra's latest online auction of milk powder, holding near a four-month high and keeping intact one of the pillars of New Zealand's terms of trade.

New Zealand tourism businesses and manufacturers that export to Australia are expected to be the winners from a strengthening Australian dollar.

Exports were up 15 per cent or $405 million in August from a year earlier to $3.2 billion, led by higher prices for dairy products.

Christchurch company that make tools for surgeons is exporting almost everything it makes.

Some British consumers say they won't buy New Zealand lamb because of concerns over the halal method of killing animals.

Exports, not fawning over foreign visitors, is what we should focus on.