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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 7h
📢 The Life of... Sarah Wood is the chief executive of realestate.co.nz, a technology and media company with more than 80 staff...
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The Life of ... Sarah Wood, realestate.co.nz CEO
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 9h
📢 Culture Few things are better than going to a concert where the atmosphere is one of collective joy. That was my overwhelming imp...
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Noah Kahan brings joy to Spark Arena
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 9h
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 9h
📢 “Oh wow, so the new company they started has racked up more debts and gone into liquidation. Colour me shocked.” That was a parts supplier&rsqu...
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Twice-liquidated car business Ceramic Pro owes $5m, still appears to be trading
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 10h
📢 By Hannah MiaoFor months, Ma Yongjian didn’t tell his parents where he was.Halfway through a master’s degree in computer science, the 27-year-old st... 👉[Ad] Private 1-to-1 matchmaking by MarryNZ for marriage or a serious long-term relationship. marry.nz
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China's weakening economy is creating a lost generation
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 10h
📢 Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure, disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to John Morris, ONZM, an educational...
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Fail File: John Morris ONZM, educational consultant
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 10h
📢 By Nicole NguyenWe’ve spent the past decade scrolling on iPhones. Apple’s newest smart home device offers a glimpse at a different future.HomeView i...
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First impressions of HomeView, Apple’s new smart home display
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 10h
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 10h
📢 On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.Founders, funders and assorted members o...
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On the Money: Fonterra at 25, Lexus launch, Hiroki Sakai, Steven Joyce and more
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 20h
📢 Leading energy stocks Contact Energy and Meridian were weaker on changes in a global index as the New Zealand sharemarket ended the week with a fall of nearly 0...
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Contact and Meridian fall on global index changes
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 21h
📢 KiwiRail will spend $37.5 million upgrading infrastructure at Picton wharf alongside improvements for the new Cook Strait ferries.The state-owned enterprise&rsq...
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KiwiRail to invest $37.5m in Picton port infrastructure
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 23h
📢 Efforts to market Ebos Group to private equity may be pushing its share price up.The multi-faceted manufacturing, distribution, retail, and medical technology c...
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Ebos share price jumps amid efforts to market it to private equity
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 16/10/2026
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Fisher Funds has appointed experienced investment executive Paul Huxford as chief investment officer, the company said.“Paul has had an impressive global...
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Fisher Funds names Paul Huxford as new CIO
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Mercury is proceeding with its $506 million Puke Kapo Hau wind farm west of Dunedin, rounding off a week of major announcements on new electricity generation an...
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Latest $506m Puke Kapo Hauwind farm adds to renewable generation rush
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 SkyCity has struck a $221 million deal to sell its Grand Hotel in central Auckland, taking the casino operator's property disposals to almost $300m as it se...
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SkyCity sells Grand Hotel to Eden Global Capital Private and Auckland City Collective for $221m
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 What is the name of the 21-year-old Formula 2 driver Haas has signed to replace Esteban Ocon? How many bones are in the adult human body?Which metal...
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QuiznessDesk: Friday, Oct 16
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Fonterra Co-operative Group’s chief financial officer Andrew Murray has resigned.His departure after two years in the job was announced on Friday, with Mu...
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Andrew Murray to depart Fonterra
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 The election date is fast bearing down on us, the leaders’ debates have been less than inspiring and may not have set the world alight, but policies are n...
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Is there alignment between employer priorities and campaign promises?
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Kiwibank has opted not to compete for an opportunity to provide Government banking services as part of a panel refresh.The New Zealand Government Procurement (N...
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Kiwibank sits out refresh of Government banking panel
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Dairy Goat Co-operative has slashed debt and brought inventory under control as it shifts focus from survival to growth.The progress comes after it finally secu... 👉[Ad] Private 1-to-1 matchmaking by MarryNZ for marriage or a serious long-term relationship. marry.nz
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Dairy Goat Co-op slashes debt, inventory to be comeback kid
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 The Securities Industry Association has called for reform of the Financial Markets Authority and says the regulator has lost sight of its capital markets develo...
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Brokers’ group Securities Industry Association calls for capital markets shake-up at FMA
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Minority shareholders in NZ King Salmon have been through a lot. They endured a collapse in the share price, backed a $60 million capital raise and waited...
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NZ King Salmon minorities backed the rescue. Oregon gets the prize
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Mystery surrounds the abrupt closure of Wellington luxury car dealership O’Reilly’s Garage, and the whereabouts of its owner, Simon O’Reilly.T...
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Luxury car dealer vanishes, leaving financiers in the dark.
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 In October last year, Sydney billionaire Sam Arnaout spent two days walking around Christchurch with his team and agents from Savills.They looked at the ci...
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Christchurch casino sale to Iris Capital settles at more than $100m
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 The parent of investment bank Barrenjoey could join the NZX.Since landing in New Zealand in July, Barrenjoey has wasted little time making its presence felt.The...
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Barrenjoey eyes NZX after Jarden raid and Craigs deal
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Mainfreight made a strong move, and the New Zealand sharemarket bucked offshore declines with a rise of more than 0.5% as inflation concerns resurfaced in the U...
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Mainfreight drives NZ sharemarket higher despite Wall Street losses
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Lodestone Energy managing director Gary Holden says the solar developer has raised at least $75 million in its initial public offering and will proceed with its...
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Solar developer Lodestone raises at least $75m in IPO, proceeds with NZX listing
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 A British biotechnology company has acquired Auckland-based Daisy Lab for an undisclosed sum.Founded in 2020 by Irina Miller and Nikki Freed, Daisy Lab develops...
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UK’s Mycofeast acquires Auckland biotech Daisy Lab for undisclosed sum
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 A trans-Tasman stress test by New Zealand and Australian regulators has indicated that banking systems in both economies will remain resilient through a severe...
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Banks withstand oil shock, recession and cyber-attack in stress test
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 15/10/2026
📢 Lodestone Energy managing director Gary Holden said the solar developer has raised at least $75 million in its initial public offering and will proceed with its...
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Lodestone raises at least $75m in IPO, proceeds with NZX listing
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 United States inflation picked up in September, a sign that high energy prices are tightening their squeeze on consumers leading into next month’s midterm...
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US inflation jumps to 3.7% in September
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 NZX-listed Rua Bioscience expects to begin recognising revenue from a $10 million UK medicinal cannabis agreement before Christmas, with its first products now... 👉[Ad] Websites that win enquiries: build/rebuild/move, forms, SSL, care. webservices.photonmark.com/websites
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Rua names Curaleaf Laboratories as partner in $10m UK cannabis deal
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 The Securities Industry Association (SIA) has announced the appointment of Nick Scarlett as its new executive director.Scarlett, who has more than 30 years of e...
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Nick Scarlett named SIA's new executive director
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure, disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Collin Tukuitonga, KNZM, the...
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Fail File: Collin Tukuitonga, KNZM, associate dean Pacific at University of Auckland
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 Retail banking in New Zealand continued on its now-familiar trajectory in the first half of 2026, with cash use and in-branch transaction volumes down as digita...
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Digital banking up as cash use fades
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 I started this year thinking the battle for reform of bank prudential regulation had been lost.In late 2025, Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committe... 👉[Ad] Websites that win enquiries: build/rebuild/move, forms, SSL, care. webservices.photonmark.com/websites
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NZ bank regulation reform back on the agenda
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 The people building the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence systems promise extraordinary gains. They also warn those systems could escape our c...
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Business of Tech: Is the AI race out of control?
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 The rising tide of bankruptcies and failures engulfing parts of the retail sector shows few signs of easing anytime soon. In the process, venerable names that h...
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Cyclical or structural: Retailing is an ever-changing world
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 Hayden Scott was the bloke who got things done. Fixed problems, kept going, and didn’t make a fuss.Then he started feeling sick on the drive to work.Aft...
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Men’s mental health: the cost of silence
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 Three years ago, Taranaki hydrogen developer Hiringa Energy was struggling to get a wind farm and hydrogen plant built in its own backyard and found a more welc...
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Hiringa Energy’s two hydrogen projects near completion after different paths
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 At the end of both televised leaders debates this week and last there was one question posed among the pundits: who landed the killer blow?The answer was the sa...
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Election 2026 leaders’ debates: Neither Luxon nor Hipkins can land the killer blow
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 Interests associated with the Rich List Gough family have lost an estimated $86 million on a problem-plagued apartment development in Auckland’s Onehunga....
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Gough family stand to lose millions on Beachcroft apartments
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 Corrections has terminated negotiations with a private consortium over the expansion of Waikeria Prison, opting against a public-private partnership.Negotiation... 👉[Ad] Websites that win enquiries: build/rebuild/move, forms, SSL, care. webservices.photonmark.com/websites
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Corrections scraps PPP negotiations for Waikeria Prison expansion
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 Some of New Zealand’s most promising emerging companies have been named regional winners in the 2026 Deloitte Fast 50.Deloitte said entries to the annual...
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Tracksuit, Lodestone winners in regional Deloitte Fast 50
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 CEOs have many parts to their role – developing and delivering strategic plans, executing operational requirements, managing key stakeholders, and people...
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The CEO’s fundamental task
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 Christchurch City Council’s Waimairi Ward councillor Sam MacDonald confirmed the council had been asked for feedback on a Costco fast-track application.Th...
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Christchurch Costco store proposed near airport in fast-track application
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 14/10/2026
📢 Ever since former US Navy flight officer Paul Lwin founded defence startup HavocAI in Rhode Island in 2024, he has seen Taiwan as an island of opportunity.Lwin...
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US defence startups flock to Taiwan to build China-free drones
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 13/10/2026
📢 Fletcher Building's residential business remains a weak spot, with housing settlements continuing to fall and little earnings expected from the division.&nb...
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Fletcher Building's residential arm remains a drag as settlements fall 39%
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