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Business Herald re-launched
This morning the Business Herald has has re-launched its homepage with a host of new features and content to keep you better informed. We’ll continue to bring you comprehensive news and the best business analysis but we’ve added tools which allow you check stock prices, get latest currency rates, compare mortgage and savings rates and pick the best KiwiSaver fund for you. We’ve also built a company search engine to allow you to better search our huge archive of stories and commentary dating back over a decade.
Air NZ bids farewell to its last Boeing 747
Air New Zealand's last jumbo jet, the Boeing 747 is about to leave New Zealand this week. This video gives us insight into the history and legacy of this mighty aircraft, and a final goodbye from the airline as it is replaced by the much newer and more efficient 787 Dreamliner
Graeme Hart’s new Superyacht
New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart has launched his new superyacht called Ulysses in Norway.
Meet the CEOs: Murray Jordan, Foodstuffs
Murray Jordan, CEO Foodstuffs, NZ’s biggest supermarket business with New World, Four Square, Pak n Save and other brands.
The making of Emirates' 50th Airbus A380 - Timelapse
A behind the scenes glimpse into the making of Emirates’ 50th A380 aircraft. It takes 800 workers just 65 to 80 days to assemble, install, test, paint, furnish and deliver an Emirates Airbus A380, the iconic double-decker aircraft that first entered Emirates service in 2008. Video supplied by Emirates.
Inside the new Airbus A350XWB - Part II
Herald aviation writer Grant Bradley flew into Auckland on the world's newest commercial big jet - the A350XWB. See part 2 of his report looking inside the plane, hearing from the pilots and Airbus technical experts.
12 Questions - Suvi Nenonen
Sarah Stuart’s ’12 Questions’ video series continues with a discussion with Associate Professor Suvi Nenonen of the University of Auckland Graduate School of Management. Dr Nenonen is a world-leading researcher in the new business strategy of ‘market shaping’.
Pop Up Now - a store up and running in less than 10 minutes.
Pop Up Now - see here how a demonstration of how working store can be 'popped up' and operational within 10 minutes.
Inside the new Airbus A350
Herald aviation writer Grant Bradley flew into Auckland yesterday on the world's newest commercial big jet - the A350XWB. See inside the plane and hear from its pilots here.
Slingshot's banned TV advert
TVNZ has joined Sky TV in banning Slingshot's latest ads promoting the ISP's 'Global Mode service.'
Meet the CEOs: Chris Gudgeon, Kiwi Income Property Trust
Kiwi owns Sylvia Park, ASB North Wharf, Vero Centre on Shortland St (tallest office block in NZ), Centre Place Hamilton and the rundown LynnMall shopping centre out west which it’s going to do up.
Interview: NZIER principal economist Shamubeel Eaqub
Shamubeel Eaqub is the principal economist at the NZ Institute of Economic Research and has just written the book Growing Apart: Regional Prosperity in New Zealand
Business: Spark NZ’s Simon Moutter
Simon Moutter today hoists a new flag up Telecom's mast, marking its tack away from two decades as New Zealand's safe and stodgy telecommunications provider. For the managing director, it's a signal of the company's new direction, towards a bright digital horizon of revenue growth and new services such as internet television.
Rocket Lab - NZ satellite launch pitch
NZ company Rocket Lab hopes to launch a locally-based space programme, with its low-cost method of launching satellites.
Inside the Boeing factory
The New Zealand Herald tour through the Boeing factory near Seattle, Washington, USA where the new Air New Zealand 787-9 Dreamliner was built.
Meet the CEOs: Scott Pritchard, Precinct Properties
Scott Pritchard, CEO of Precinct Properties, which owns the Downtown Shopping Centre site in Auckland where consent was granted to previous owner Westfield NZ for a 41-level tower.
Meet the CEOs: Connal Townsend, Property Council of NZ
Connal Townsend, CEO Property Council of NZ which represents major commercial, industrial and retail landlords.
3D Printers affordable for Kiwi households
New Zealand retailers have introduced 3D printers to the market and they’re quickly becoming more affordable. The Business Herald trialled one of the plug-n-play ready to use models, the Da Vinci, distributed by Comworth Technologies retailing at $899. 3D printers offer a lot to the future of technology and manufacturing. The model we took a look at is being used in schools, in small businesses and kiwi houshoulds. Companies overseas are also using the equipment on a larger scale to build 3D cars, prosthetic limbs and even houses to give a few examples.
Property: Bruce Patten on house prices
Monthly chat with mortgage broker Bruce Patten on house prices.
Dreamliner's airshow routine
Boeing's expert crew rehearses the flight program for the 2014 Farnborough Airshow. Watch the show before the show! Learn more at http://www.newairplane.com/787/787-9/?v=2 Courtesy YouTube/Boeing
Air NZ's Dreamliner 787-9 arrives
Air New Zealand's long anticipated Dreamliner has touched down at Auckland Airport. Four years later than originally hoped, the plane landed around its scheduled arrival time. Around 45 Air New Zealand staff greeted the plane at the airline's engineering base.
Inside Air NZ's Dreamliner
2013 had Air New Zealand's first Dreamliner flying into Auckland. NZ Herald travelled to Seattle to preview the plane and attend the Dreamliner opening. Video / Alan Gibson / Boeing
Air NZ's new Dreamliner
Air New Zealand has received its first Dreamliner in a Seattle ceremony before it's flown home to Auckland airport.
Meet the CEOs: Helen O’Sullivan, REINZ
REINZ ceo, Helen O’Sullivan on house prices and where the market’s going.
Air NZ gets first Dreamliner
It's become the first airline in the world to receive the new 302-seater 787-9 Dreamliner from the Boeing factory in Seattle. Air New Zealand CFO Rob McDonald says the wait's been worth it. He says Air New Zealand has a significant place in the world, when taking into account the number of passengers on board - and how many kilometres they travel. He says the features and economics that first drew the airline to the aircraft are even more valid than ten years ago.
Nick Smith, Minister of Housing
Nick Smith, Minister of Housing and Ministry of Building and Construction, talks to property reporter Anne Gibson about seismic upgrades to heritage buildings, engineers’ responsibilities, leaky homes, Auckland housing and foreign house buyers.
E-health partnership at Waitemata Health
Health technology company Orion Health, which is expected to list this year, has signed a new deal to work with the Waitemata District Health Board, starting with two wards at Auckland's North Shore Hospital.
Shane Solly, Harbour Asset Management
Shane Solly is Auckland-based, at Harbour Asset Management, helping to manage $1.4b equity assets including listed real estate businesses. He discusses big new developments, why so many new blocks are planned, which multimillion dollar buildings are on the market and what the outlook is for the sector.