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    Butter prices surge 120% over a decade

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    Butter prices surge 120% over a decade

    Increases in dairy prices are having a big impact on food bills.

    Offer to banks to settle law suit for $300m

    The multimillion-dollar claim was filed in the Auckland High Court in 2021 against ANZ and ASB...

    Offer to banks to settle law suit for $300m

    A class action law suit against ASB and ANZ banks for overcharging customers is offering to settle its case for a payment of more than $300 million.

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    ‘Great’ opening day for Mosgiel bakery

    Finishing up their first day of trading at the new Spelt Bakery in Gladstone Rd South, Mosgiel...

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    ‘Great’ opening day for Mosgiel bakery

    Dunedin residents love a good scroll and the number of bakeries in the city is on the rise.

    Big energy retailers forced to lower off-peak prices

    Rooftop solar is the way to tackle soaring power prices. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

    Big energy retailers forced to lower off-peak prices

    Big electricity retailers will have to offer cheaper prices for off-peak power use prices, and fair prices to people who sell surplus power to the grid from rooftop solar panels at peak times.

    'Really hard for older job seekers at the moment'

    Image: RNZ

    'Really hard for older job seekers at the moment'

    Dozens of people are signing up to a job site for older workers every day, as more and more of them are noticeably struggling to find work.

    Chch contractor in liquidation owes $2.6m

    Photo: ODT files

    Chch contractor in liquidation owes $2.6m

    A Christchurch painting and maintenance contractor has gone into liquidation owing creditors an estimated $2.6 million.

    HelloFresh pleads guilty to misleading behaviour

     File photo: RNZ

    HelloFresh pleads guilty to misleading behaviour

    Meal-kit provider HelloFresh has pleaded guilty to misleading behaviour under the Fair Trading Act.

    Vital Ltd shareholders considering Tait takeover offer

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    Vital Ltd shareholders considering Tait takeover offer

    Vital Ltd shareholders weighing up a takeover offer by Christchurch communications company Tait International have until August 8 to opt into a share buy-out at the "low end" of an independent...

    Another solar farm likely for Canterbury

    Genesis’ Lauriston Solar Farm is up and running. Further sites are proposed for Leeston, also in...

    Another solar farm likely for Canterbury

    Genesis is on track to make a final investment decision in the middle of next year to spend $110 million on building another large solar farm in Canterbury.

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    Climbing the ladder: from intern to partner

    Tom Offen. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN

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    Climbing the ladder: from intern to partner

    He started as an intern.

    Investment confidence boosted

    Commercial buildings could become more in demand from businesses being encouraged to invest by...

    Investment confidence boosted

    Canterbury businesses are already lining up commercial buildings and buying other big-ticket items on the back of the government’s Investment Boost scheme.

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    Spell has been cast: $150,000 grant for startup

    Education technology startup company founder Rupert Denton (left) and game developer Josiah Hunt...

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    Spell has been cast: $150,000 grant for startup

    "I feel like I am doing the thing I was put on Earth to do."

    Country living a cut above for retailers

    Showing off the business are (from left) Omarama retailers Glenys and Craig Dawson with their...

    Country living a cut above for retailers

    Operating a seven-day-a-week retail business for nearly three decades might sound like a slog.

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    Under-fire pub owner admits he 'got slack'

    An on-licence and off-licence renewal application for Mackies Hotel, in Port Chalmers, has been...

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    Under-fire pub owner admits he 'got slack'

    The owner of a decades-old Dunedin tavern pulled up for a lack of food says he got slack and it has come back to "kick in the butt".

    All go for global firm’s new NZ chairman

    Christchurch will remain home for Ian Fraser who has just taken on the chairmanship of GHD, a...

    All go for global firm’s new NZ chairman

    A multibillion-dollar company with thousands of employees is being led by a Christchurch man, writes Tim Cronshaw.

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    Deputy PM ‘in awe’ of work done at city tech firm

    Watching a demonstration of Scott Technology’s BladeStop safety bandsaw on the factory floor are ...

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    Deputy PM ‘in awe’ of work done at city tech firm

    Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour has praised a Dunedin robotics company as being "at the forefront of world technology".

    Govt 'alliance' to combat online scammers

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    Govt 'alliance' to combat online scammers

    The coalition government is promising a crackdown on financial con-artists, bringing together agencies, industry and consumer groups to shut down online scams.

    Listener, NZ Woman's Weekly for sale

    Are Media, which publishes the Listener and New Zealand Woman's Weekly, is for sale. Photo: RNZ ...

    Listener, NZ Woman's Weekly for sale

    New Zealand magazines including the Listener, Woman's Day and New Zealand Woman's Weekly are for sale after its publisher has been put on the market.

    Southern businessman made KiwiRail director after NZ First donation

    Scott O'Donnell was also involved in the Invercargill CBD development. Photo: ODT files

    Southern businessman made KiwiRail director after NZ First donation

    A newly-appointed KiwiRail board director is a director of a Tapanui company which donated to NZ First and is involved in the Mosgiel inland port development.
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