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Aggregate growth is not franchisee profit

Demand is real, and that is not the question New Zealand's takeaway food services sector generated an estimated $1.1 billion in...

By B2B News | 10 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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450,000 Kiwis behind on payments every month despite falling bankruptcy figures

The recovery signal that isn't New Zealand's personal insolvency numbers are falling, and on paper that reads like good news. Formal...

By B2B News | 10 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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A $150,000 Whanganui house started one Australian’s seven-property NZ empire

The arbitrage is real, the tax haven is not A Stuff feature published this week profiled Kaveen Jayawardena, a 37-year-old Australian...

By B2B News | 10 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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An apology is the only consequence Kiwibank faced for freezing a clean account

An email dismissed as spam Auckland jeweller Penelope Barnhill had been a Kiwibank customer for a decade and a working jeweller...

By B2B News | 10 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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All the planes are back so why are business fares still climbing

The planes are back. The relief isn't coming All 14 of Air New Zealand's Boeing 787 Dreamliners are back in service,...

By B2B News | 10 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Will amalgamation actually cut commercial rates or just shuffle the debt around?

The warning isn't coming from an anti-reform voice When a fiscally transparent former Green MP who refused to promise rate cuts...

By B2B News | 09 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Tax settings threaten a $4 billion immigration investment windfall

New Zealand's Active Investor Plus (AIP) golden visa scheme has done exactly what the government hoped. In its first 13...

By B2B News | 09 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Dismissed as a hobby, NZ game studios quietly outpaced the entire global industry

A serious export industry, not a hobby New Zealand's game development sector has quietly turned into a real export earner. Studios...

By B2B News | 09 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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NZ built its fuel buffer before the emergency, not after

An insurance policy nobody wants until they need it On 8 July 2026, Z Energy commissioned two major fuel storage facilities...

By B2B News | 09 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Is a 46% profit drop actually the smartest move Datacom has ever made?

Record revenue, halved profit, and a deliberate choice New Zealand's largest home-grown IT firm just posted the kind of result that...

By B2B News | 09 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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H5N1 arrival in New Zealand is a matter of timing not possibility

The theoretical just became proximate Highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza has now been confirmed in six cases in Australia, including a...

By B2B News | 09 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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How did a $40 packet create a $12 black market overnight?

A gap wide enough for organised crime New Zealand Customs seized 8.3 million cigarettes in the first four months of 2026...

By B2B News | 08 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Employers funding health cover are paying for a pricing war they did not start

A fight over who sets the price On the surface, this is a dispute about women's healthcare. Underneath, it is a...

By B2B News | 08 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Fewer qualified ECE teachers means fewer parents available to hire

A reform designed to cut costs, not raise quality Associate Education Minister David Seymour's ministerial advisory group is consulting on how...

By B2B News | 08 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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New Zealand tops a 15-country list for locking workers away from former clients

The number nobody's talking about Everyone fixates on non-competes. But the standout figure in the OECD study published on 7 July...

By B2B News | 08 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Dan the plumber is charging more on streets councils stripped of parking

The invisible line item on your invoice When a council removes parking to make room for a cycleway, the press release...

By B2B News | 08 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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