Businesses have been warned not to misread any pre-GST tax hike sales boom.

For decades Auckland's built heritage has been wiped out, one building at a time, by property developers. But not all of them want to swing a wrecking ball.

Consumers face price increases beyond the likely 2.5 per cent rise in GST later this year, small businesses say.

ANZ National can expect a 'significant shortfall' on the $26 million it's owed by ProvencoCadmus.

Local record shops aren't ready to bite the bullet just yet.

Retail sales sagged in February, their second substantial fall in three months.

Consumers are used to getting a bargain, and this sentiment has shown up in diminished retail sales figures in February.

In 2001, Consumers Institute head David Russell warned food prices were likely to rise once the supermarket industry shrank from three big players to two.

The grocery industry, lest we forget, is basically trench warfare, Tim Morris insists.

Good sales growth continued in the March quarter in both New Zealand and Australia, although conditions continued to be difficult for the Canadian business, chairman Michael Hill said today.