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An 88% savings surge says households are bracing for more than an election

Sharesies wants its latest numbers read as a story of sensible, resilient investors. That is fair as far as it...

By B2B News | 13 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Qantas just turned regional Australia into a two-ticket trip for Kiwi firms

From 7 April 2027, a Kiwi sales manager flying to a client in Townsville, Launceston or Newcastle will need two...

By B2B News | 13 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Employers face five more years hiring from a qualification the minister calls broken

Education Minister Erica Stanford has stopped calling NCEA flawed. Speaking to a vocational education and training forum, she said it...

By B2B News | 13 Oct 2026 | 4 min read
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Nobel-winning science quietly ran on Dunedin-built lab gear

New Zealand likes its tech success stories loud: a unicorn valuation, a Nasdaq listing, a founder on a podcast. The...

By B2B News | 13 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Lead-acid could be the battery insurers finally say yes to

ArcActive, the Hornby battery developer that has spent more than a decade reinventing lead-acid chemistry, has installed its first commercial...

By B2B News | 13 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Aviation security veterans are now applying to pack mince

When Reuben Sharples, managing director of New Lynn's Aussie Butcher, advertised for a meat packer, he got more than 1000...

By B2B News | 13 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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A 6pm ambush meeting has become a $27,890 lesson in process

Yucen Xi was called into a 6pm meeting at the Qeelin jewellery store in Newmarket with no warning of what...

By B2B News | 12 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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15 January will break more small firms than a quiet Christmas ever could

Every small business owner knows Christmas is slow. Far fewer plan properly for what comes after it. On 15 January,...

By B2B News | 12 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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It took a German drug giant to back Christchurch’s best biotech idea

Christchurch biotech Precision Chroma has raised US$7.3 million (NZ$12.8 million) in a seed round led by M Ventures, the corporate...

By B2B News | 12 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Telcos measured coverage by headcount, which is why farms went dark

New Zealand switched off 3G in March on the strength of a statistic that was never about farms. The industry's...

By B2B News | 12 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Rebadging apprenticeships as degrees won’t pay for the training

Skills Group has published a white paper arguing that apprenticeships deserve the same funding, status and student support as a...

By B2B News | 12 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Seafood’s smartest fix for bottom trawling is stuck behind a two-wire rule

Bottom trawling is not a side activity for New Zealand's seafood sector. It is the sector. Roughly 70% of the...

By B2B News | 12 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Accounting firms are automating away their future partners

Accounting firms have found a reliable way to save money. The problem is where the savings come from: the routine...

By B2B News | 12 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Café owners are working for free so your flat white stays cheap

Claire Park, owner of Café Ditto in Mt Eden, pays herself for a 45-hour week. She actually spends 70 to...

By B2B News | 11 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Fifty thousand ratepayers are funding a town built for a hundred thousand

Queenstown does not have a traffic problem so much as a billing problem. Visitors, developers and central government all benefit...

By B2B News | 11 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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Kiwi importers are already paying for a Saudi oil outage that hasn’t happened

A missile hit King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on 10 October, the third strike there in roughly a week....

By B2B News | 11 Oct 2026 | 5 min read
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