All posts tagged "business"

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  Fast Facts

  Fuel and grocery retailing boosts card spending

  Consumers spent more on essentials such as fuel and groceries in July 2018, Stats NZ said. This contributed to a 0.7 percent...

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  Fast Facts

  The Warehouse Group bids goodbye to 21 million single-use plastic checkout bags

  New Zealand’s largest listed retail group is bypassing its transitionary step of introducing compostable bags at its checkouts and is moving directly...

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  News and Views

  BusinessNZ welcomes micro-credentials

  A micro-credential system introduced by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority will help ensure that New Zealand businesses can access employees with the...

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  Fast Facts

  Minimum wage pushes up private sector pay rates

  The rise in the minimum wage helped lift private sector salary and wage rates 2.1 percent in the June 2018 year, Stats...

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  Fast Facts

  Hold on to fiscal cap

  With the Government coming under increasing pressure to loosen its self-imposed fiscal cap and borrow to fund the public service in particular,...

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  Must See

  World energy leaders to meet in Wellington

  Energy leaders from around the world have Wellington in their sights with the announcement that New Zealand’s capital city will host the...

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  Must See

  Spark extends ‘Internet of Things’ network coverage to Mystery Creek in time for Fieldays

  Spark has switched on a new Internet of Things (IoT) site at Mystery Creek, bringing low power, wide area network coverage (LoRaWAN™)...

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  Agribusiness

  Successful trading debut for NFX

  The inaugural Natural Fibre Exchange (NFX) trading event attracted strong participation with 41 of 44 lots on offer (93%) sold.

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  Fast Facts

  EU news welcome

  ExportNZ has welcomed the announcement that trade negotiations will begin between New Zealand and the EU.

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  Agribusiness

  Farmers hail on-line fibre exchange as useful innovation

  Transparency, ease-of-use and the potential for increasing competition among buyers are among the positives of the Natural Fibre Exchange (NFX), Federated Farmers...