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Entain is warning its rivals that an ad war ends in a ban

Entain, the multinational behind the TAB, has told a conference that having "15 brands fighting tooth and nail" for New...

By B2B News | 29 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Ngāi Tahu is treating startups like serious infrastructure

Ngāi Tahu Holdings has handed its tech start-up portfolio to a professional manager. The commercial arm of the South Island...

By B2B News | 29 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Every townhouse built before 2031 can legally bake its occupants

Upstairs in Jared Laidlaw's west-facing Auckland townhouse, the temperature hit 35°C during the day and stayed in the high 20s...

By B2B News | 29 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Enforce the Airbnb rules Christchurch already has before inventing new ones

Christchurch mayor Phil Mauger thinks the market will fix the city's Airbnb problem. On the big picture, he has a...

By B2B News | 29 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Student debt relief cannot outbid a Sydney pay packet

Labour's $583 million student debt deal is being sold as an answer to high youth unemployment and higher wages abroad....

By B2B News | 29 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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A capital gains tax would raise less in five years than GST does in one

Deloitte tax partner Robyn Walker has a blunt view of New Zealand's longest-running tax argument. Speaking at a Tax Traders...

By B2B News | 28 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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A $5.2m second half cannot paper over Synlait’s $75.4m hole

Synlait wants shareholders to focus on the second half. That is understandable, because the full year is ugly. The Canterbury...

By B2B News | 28 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Starshipit reached the Series A milestone without ever needing a Series A

Auckland shipping software company Starshipit has hit US$10 million (NZ$18m) in annual recurring revenue, serves 30,000 customers globally and employs...

By B2B News | 28 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Evolution’s $526m bet builds the surgical capacity Health NZ can’t

The building that once housed One NZ's national headquarters at Smales Farm is being turned into a surgical hospital. Evolution...

By B2B News | 28 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Buying BNZ back is state capitalism dressed as nostalgia

National opened its campaign on Sunday by attacking its most likely coalition partner. Christopher Luxon told RNZ that NZ First's...

By B2B News | 28 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Rigged public tenders are skimming $360m a year from taxpayers

The Commerce Commission has put a number on something the construction and infrastructure sectors have muttered about for years. Bid-rigging...

By B2B News | 28 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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A decade’s worth of serious cyber breaches just landed in one year

Forget the abstract AI scare stories. The number that should unsettle every board in the country is four. The National...

By B2B News | 28 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Southland’s coal-to-urea pitch wants protection from voters, not just consent

Allan Blood wants two things from New Zealand. The first is permission to build a coal-to-fertiliser plant in Southland. The...

By B2B News | 28 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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Otago’s $700 rent is a pay-rise tax on southern employers

Otago is now the most expensive place to rent in New Zealand. The median weekly rent there jumped nearly 8%...

By B2B News | 25 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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$10.5 million of ratepayer money bought councils a pause button

The Government told councils the status quo was not good enough, gave them a three-month deadline and warned that anyone...

By B2B News | 25 Sep 2026 | 4 min read
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Scrapping the BSA against official advice is deregulation by slogan

The coalition has spent two years preaching regulatory discipline. Then it scrapped the Broadcasting Standards Authority in a way that...

By B2B News | 25 Sep 2026 | 5 min read
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