New Zealand’s biggest solar power plant will produce enough electricity to power 30,000 homes, and allow planes to pull up and recharge. The $100 million plant will cover the equivalent of 262 rugby fields at Christchurch Airport. The development is 50 times larger than any other solar farm currently operating in New Zealand. Alongside it […]

This article written for the news organization ‘TheConversation’ and is based on a presentation given at a Sanctuaries of New Zealand workshop earlier this year on the theme of iwi and conservation. As world leaders continue negotiations at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, several agreements reached so far have acknowledged the connection between climate […]

Parcel delivery is up 100 percent over the pre-Covid-19 period as customers rush to get their orders in for the holiday season, with just 35 days shopping days left to Christmas. A new survey by Mastercard indicates 45 percent of consumers are still keen to shop in-store, but about half of them are waiting until […]

Small firms are ramping up ICT spending as they shift more business online because of Covid-19. Research from accounting software firm Xero shows information and communications technology spending has increased 25 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels. The growth is higher than Australia and the United Kingdom. Xero New Zealand and Pacific Islands managing director Craig […]

Ikea New Zealand has signed a deal to buy 3.2 hectares of land for a store at Auckland’s Sylvia Park shopping mall. Ikea New Zealand chief executive Mirja Viinanen said while the Covid-19 pandemic had presented unforeseen challenges and developments, the intention had always been for it to enter the New Zealand market “in a […]

New Zealand managers are falling short of expectations, with most workers giving high marks to their social interaction with colleagues and a failing grade to their managers. Business culture expert Shane Green recently surveyed 800 New Zealanders about their experience at work and found that the social aspects of a job are highly valued. “More […]

A tropical cyclone forming in the Solomon Sea is due to hit New Zealand next week, just as holidaymakers begin to move around the country for Christmas. It comes within days of the Auckland border lifting, allowing residents of the country’s biggest city to move freely around New Zealand for the first time in four […]

Campaigners are celebrating their victory in a long-running battle to preserve a world-famous Coromandel summer destination, with a public-backed charity buying the northern headland of New Chum Beach for $2.15m. The sale of the 30ha piece of land in Wainuiototo Bay to the New Zealand Coastal Trust means the area will be protected from development. […]

Hicks Bay 16-year-old Liam Henderson has been offered a $400,000 rugby scholarship at Yamanashi Gakuin high school in Japan. Liam’s mum Jade Henderson said Liam started playing ripper rugby at age 5, when she was questioned about his age. “He was quite big for his age, so we had to show his birth certificate,” she […]

Fifteen New Zealand tertiary students and recent graduates will experience how business is done in Asia while undertaking online and domestic internships this summer. The Asia New Zealand Foundation Te Whītau Tūhono has been offering business internships since 2009 and is continually growing the pool of businesses we partner with, to keep up with today’s […]