KiwiSaver shake-up gets global attention
The recent furore over KiwiSaver that saw banks and large financial institutions dump $109 million of controversial investments is drawing the attention of the international investment community. Canada-based Sustainanalytics, a research firm employing 300 people [...]
Hidden export businesses help Grow North
Hidden among the industrial parks and suburban shops of Auckland North are a surprising number of globally successful exporters. But because their markets are overseas, Kiwis never hear about them. Unearthing and connecting these ‘hidden’ [...]
The pure play online retailers moving to bricks and mortar
Published on Tue, 06/09/2016 With online video giant YouTube recently announcing a plan to move into bricks and mortar with the opening of its Creator Store in London, we take a look at the phenomenon [...]
NZME to pay $55m in cash and hand over 41% stake for Fairfax NZ
PAUL MCBETH - WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2016 NZME [NZX: NZM] will pay $55 million in cash and issue shares giving Australia's Fairfax Media a 41 percent stake if a planned merger of New Zealand's dominant publishers is [...]
The world’s most valuable startup is leading the race to transform the future of transport
Uberworld Sep 3rd 2016 “LET’S Uber.” Few companies offer something so popular that their name becomes a verb. But that is one of the many achievements of Uber, a company founded in 2009 which is [...]
Vitaco succumbs to the same market forces hitting Blackmores
BlackMores The four or five biggest "daigou" shoppers who buy vast volumes of Australian vitamins and then ship them into China for sale are still holding too much stock at the end of August, meaning [...]