Soaring petrol prices were a key factor behind a 0.8 per cent rise in the consumers' price index (CPI) in the March quarter.

Errol Hotham is only 40, but has already spent half his life working for one of the Bay of Plenty's best-known retailers.

It's a great time to be shopping for electronics. But not many retailers are celebrating. Karyn Scherer reports.

Retail buyers who stock the big chains say NZ production has almost disappeared.

The jobs of almost 380 Ballantynes staff appear more secure following the news the Christchurch branch may be able to reopen later this year.

Businesses frustrated at the length of time taken to process new 'chip and pin' credit cards are being told to ditch slow dial-up connections.

Affinity Equity Partners, the private equity firm that owned the now in-receivership retailer Colorado Group, has been given clearance to buy Tegel Foods.