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Maatu Akonga, assistant manager at T&G Global, took out the title of 2022 Hawke’s Bay Young Fruit Grower of the Year last night. Maatu vied against six other contestants in a series of theoretical and practical modules designed to exercise ... Read more...

Los Angeles, CA. Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook) has inked a deal with New Zealand staff parking optimisation startup Parkable to help the technology giant solve parking woes for its 60,000+ employees across all locations in which it has ... Read more...

The most aggressive counter programming event of the streaming era kicks off this weekend, with Netflix‘s Stranger Things season four part one, and Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi debuting on the same day. Global demand data reveals that Stranger Things ... Read more...

The Commerce Commission has granted clearance for Life Health Foods NZ Limited to acquire the business and assets of Chalmers Organics Limited. Life Health Foods and Chalmers Organics both supply a range of vegetarian and plant-based products, including ... Read more...

Many New Zealanders are now working well past 65 years, but even if they are contributing to KiwiSaver, their employers currently have no obligation to match their contributions. Martin Hawes, one of the county’s best-known experts on personal finance, believes ... Read more...

MP for Botany, Christopher Luxon, has visited local medicinal cannabis company, Helius Therapeutics, where he viewed production of the first New Zealand grown and made full-spectrum products, due to be launched in the second half of this year. ... Read more...

Following market movements Kiwibank is pleased to increase the interest rate and rates of return on its savings accounts. “We know the low interest rate environment has been challenging for some customers who rely on returns from savings, so this ... Read more...

The return of American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, announced today has cemented Auckland Airport’s title as the Australasian airport with the most non-stop connections to the United States and Canada. Auckland Airport’s General ... Read more...

Employment indicators provide an early indication of changes in the labour market. Key facts Changes in the seasonally adjusted filled jobs for the April 2022 month (compared with the March 2022 month) were: all industries – up 0.6 percent (14,173 ... Read more...

Significant investment into New Zealand’s cyber security and resilience comes at a crucial time as geopolitical tensions grow, and the country emerges from the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Budget 2022 delivered hundreds of millions of new ... Read more...