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Inside the Boeing factory
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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.

Key: How NZ's immigration works
New Zealand

Key: How NZ's immigration works

Prime Minister John Key explains the current situation with NZ's immigration. The immigration surge continued to gather pace last month, with the net inflow of 4270 people the second-largest monthly gain on record. The rising trend has been driven by fewer New Zealanders leaving for Australia and more returning. The net loss of people to Australia last month would have fitted in a single airport bus - just 20, seasonally adjusted, compared with a net loss of 1550 in June last year.

3D Printers affordable for Kiwi households
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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.

Dreamliner's airshow routine
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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
New Zealand

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
New Zealand

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 gets first Dreamliner
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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
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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
New Zealand

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
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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.

Meet the CEOs: Peter Alexander, DNZ Property Fund
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Meet the CEOs: Peter Alexander, DNZ Property Fund

Peter Alexander is the CEO of $780m listed landlord DNZ Property Fund, building around 100 new shops at Westgate on Auckland’s north-west fringes but controlling an extensive portfolio of retail, industrial and commercial properties. Alexander started in December and talks about his role, the direction of the business and its biggest opportunities.

Meet the CEOs: Mark Turnbull, Foley Family Wines
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Meet the CEOs: Mark Turnbull, Foley Family Wines

Mark Turnbull, chief executive of Foley Family Wines, talks about the wine, processing and restaurant operations in New Zealand, Bill Foley who is the American behind the business, listing on the NZX and big opportunities for expansion here.

Property update: Bruce Patten from Loan Market
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Property update: Bruce Patten from Loan Market

Bruce Patten,a mortgage adviser with Loan Market, explains what why we have so much housing data, what it all means, what numbers are important, what’s happening with mortgage interest rates and what to do if you’re struggling to get a mortgage in the difficult Auckland market.

Meet the CEOs: Summerset Group, Julian Cook
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Meet the CEOs: Summerset Group, Julian Cook

Wellington-based Julian Cook is the new chief executive of listed retirement business Summerset Group. He talks about rising demand for villages and where the business is going under his leadership. Cook was previously Summerset’s chief financial officer and before that, at Macquarie in Auckland.

Change, and effecting it
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Change, and effecting it

In the second of Sarah Stuart’s ’12 Questions’ videos, University of Auckland Business School Associate Professor Daniel Vidal. A longterm strategy consultant, Daniel is an expert in the emerging study of ‘effectuation’ – how entrepreneurs think and act to effect change.

The state of the NZ agribusiness sector
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The state of the NZ agribusiness sector

KPMG’s Global Head of Agribusiness Ian Proudfoot joins us to talk through the latest Agribusiness Agenda – research that incorporates the opinions and insights of more than 150 of the industry’s top leaders.

 Economist preaches 'heresy'
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Economist preaches 'heresy'

In the first of Sarah Stuart’s ’12 Questions’ videos, University of Auckland Business School economist Professor Tim Hazledine advocates ‘heresy’ – no NZ land to be sold to foreigners and exporters like Fonterra to focus on quality than quantity to drive higher prices from a genuinely clean and green environment.

Build a Kiwi straw house
New Zealand

Build a Kiwi straw house

Evan Crawford has been building houses out of straw for the last 20 years in New Zealand and overseas. People have travelled from all over the North Island to take a look at his latest build near Rotorua as interest in the alternative building method grows.

Budget 2014: English 'return to surplus'
New Zealand

Budget 2014: English 'return to surplus'

Bill English has delivered an election year Budget which includes a bigger than forecast surplus, free doctors' visits for 400,000 more children, big cuts to ACC levies and dangles the prospect of tax cuts in front of voters. Finance Minister Mr English said the Government's much vaunted return to surplus would be $372 million, still slender but well ahead of the wafer thin $86 million forecast six months ago thanks to a rosier economic outlook.