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‘Industry-first’ platform highlights risk areas

The new map-based technology by Christchurch agritech company Onside, called PCBU Enterprise,...

‘Industry-first’ platform highlights risk areas

Christchurch agritech company Onside has unravelled a complex problem to come up with a map-based tool highlighting risk areas and increasing worker safety at many agriculture workplaces.

Return-to-office policies under the spotlight again

Workers' salaries will remain the same and the length of the workday will not be increased over...

Return-to-office policies under the spotlight again

There are many differing opinions about the benefits and drawbacks of flexible working.

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Putting ‘soul’ into every piece key to endurance

Dunedin jeweller Tony Williams has been in business for 50 years. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

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Putting ‘soul’ into every piece key to endurance

This year, Dunedin jeweller Tony Williams notches up 50 years of being in business in the city. He talks to business editor Sally Rae about his successful career.

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Lighting business illuminates path for family’s return to South

Scott and Natalie Jarvis have returned to live in the South, after more than a decade in...

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Lighting business illuminates path for family’s return to South

"Women Who Lead With Love" was the title of a retreat held in Invercargill for women in business and leadership.

Tips to keep your power bill down this winter

Tips to keep your power bill down this winter

Twenty percent of Kiwis are struggling to pay their power bills, with 11 percent cutting back on heating their homes, according to Consumer New Zealand.

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$100m ski area plans moving apace

Stage 1 of the overall $100 million Doolans extension project with the view including The...

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$100m ski area plans moving apace

An application for a $100 million-plus project that includes a 10-person gondola and extending The Remarkables ski area into the Doolans backblocks should be completed by the end of the year.

Australian holidayers set to hit the slopes

Coronet Peak skifield, Queenstown. PHOTO: ODT FILES

Australian holidayers set to hit the slopes

Australian holidaymakers are about to swell numbers on the slopes to about 10,000 visitors daily across NZSki’s alpine trio of southern ski areas next week.

Blis fixes patent issues

Blis Technologies has settled patent issues with the company’s largest customer in Europe and a party associated with that customer.

Tariffs, rising costs take toll on confidence levels

United States president Donald Trump’s tariffs have created challenges and opened up...

Tariffs, rising costs take toll on confidence levels

Canterbury business owners are no longer oozing with confidence as shoppers and other consumers resist the buying urge.

New Cook Strait ferry due in Wellington

The Stena Livia (pictured) is replacing Bluebridge's Strait Feronia. Photo: Supplied / StraitNZ

New Cook Strait ferry due in Wellington

Bluebridge's new Cook Strait ferry is set to arrive in Wellington.

Oyster farmers' 7-year battle with Watercare

Mahurangi Oysters farmer Jim Aitken says people are working in human waste. Photo: Nick Monro

Oyster farmers' 7-year battle with Watercare

A group of oyster farmers in the north of Auckland have reached breaking point over sewage overflow and want the government to intervene.

Canadian company acquires Cosgroves

Christchurch consulting engineering firm Cosgroves has been bought out by Canadian and New York...

Canadian company acquires Cosgroves

A Canadian company with an international reach in sustainable engineering and environmental consulting has bought Christchurch-headquartered engineering firm Cosgroves.

Race on to stock up on Jaffas

Jaffas hurtle down Dunedin's Baldwin St, the world's steepest - in 2015. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN/ODT

Race on to stock up on Jaffas

Jaffas - a lolly loved by Kiwis for generations and raced down the world's steepest street in Dunedin as a fundraiser - is being taken off NZ shelves.

Instant fines, tougher sentences for shoplifters

People caught shoplifting lower-value goods could be fined up to $500. For stolen goods worth...

Instant fines, tougher sentences for shoplifters

Shoplifters could be issued on-the-spot tickets up to $1000 as part of the government's latest crime crackdown.

Financial hardship case numbers rise

Financial hardship case numbers rise

Households are generally managing to stay on top of their debt, but hardship cases and business liquidations continue to rise.

Tōtara Energy secures equity partnership

Central Lakes Trust chairwoman Linda Robertson (left), Tauhara North No 2 Trust chairwoman...

Tōtara Energy secures equity partnership

Tōtara Energy LP — which has a strong Māori investment base — has taken a 30% stake in Central Otago-based Pioneer Energy Group Ltd Partnership.

How much have supermarket prices risen?

Revealed: How much supermarket prices have risen since 2022

Whether it is a block of butter or cheese, a kilogram of mince, a dozen eggs or a cooked chook, food prices have gone up rapidly.

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Creditors over $500k out of pocket after liquidation

Make sure you get the most out of your firewood by buying wood that is dry enough to burn hot.

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Creditors over $500k out of pocket after liquidation

An Otago and Canterbury firewood business which was ordered into liquidation by Dunedin’s High Court has left creditors out of pocket more than $500,000.

‘Lack of remorse’ from ICC

Bluff Oyster Shell owner Grant Heatherington believes the Invercargill City Council could have...

‘Lack of remorse’ from ICC

An Invercargill business owner living in limbo over access to his property finally has an answer — right as he is selling up.

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‘You learn most’ when plans fail

Richie McCaw was in Dunedin on Tuesday speaking at a Westpac Smart Series on leadership and...

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‘You learn most’ when plans fail

Contrary to what sports fans may have seen on television, Richie McCaw says he likes to show people there were times where things did not go the players’ way.

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