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“炸鱼薯条” 150 岁生日 / Happy 150th birthday, fish & chips

Eastern tarakihi spawning stock has crashed to the edge of no return

A supply chain built on a fish that's disappearing Tarakihi is the quiet workhorse of the Kiwi menu, the white fish...

By B2B News | 03 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Odyssey is now a US$1.45 billion AI company built by a Kiwi founder

A cheque with strings attached Auckland-educated founder Jeff Hawke has closed a US$310 million (NZ$529m) Series B round for his AI...

By B2B News | 03 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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A trillion-dollar AI bet is now a global financial stability problem

A trillion dollars, and the cashflow to match it isn't there The Bank for International Settlements, the central bank for the...

By B2B News | 03 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Airlines can legally stay silent about your right to a cash refund

When your flight gets cancelled, the airline holds all the cards. It decides what to offer, how to describe it,...

By B2B News | 03 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Brace for higher airfares as Auckland Airport’s $5.7 billion rebuild lands on airlines

The largest private build in the country Auckland Airport's $5.7 billion capital programme is the biggest private-sector infrastructure project in New...

By B2B News | 03 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Why does KiwiSaver send 61 cents in every dollar overseas

Where the money actually sits The KiwiSaver pool hit $142.321 billion at March 2026, according to the Reserve Bank's latest quarterly...

By B2B News | 02 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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$300 million health shortfall lands on employer payrolls not government budgets

The number behind the headline number The Vote Health line in Budget 2026 looks generous. It rose $1.979 billion, or 6.4%,...

By B2B News | 02 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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Small businesses finally have a workplace safety law written in plain English

A reset, not a rollback After a decade of business owners complaining they had no idea what the law actually required...

By B2B News | 02 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Delegating environmental compliance is not a shield against personal liability

A defence every director would reach for, comprehensively rejected Three directors of Samnic Forest Management Ltd have lost their High Court...

By B2B News | 02 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Is this El Nino about to break every record we have?

From forecast to fact This is no longer a weather story to file under "watch this space". Earth Sciences NZ (ESNZ)...

By B2B News | 02 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Excise tax now outweighs every other cost in a bottle of NZ spirits

For years, alcohol excise was framed as a public health tool, a nudge to moderate consumption. New Zealand's distillers say...

By B2B News | 02 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Cabinet just clipped Spark and One NZ to give 2degrees a fighting chance

A deliberate rebalancing, not a technical shuffle Cabinet's June 2026 decision to reshape how New Zealand's mid-band mobile spectrum gets distributed...

By B2B News | 02 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
Peats 'World Of Electronics' - 75 Employees Lose Their Jobs

316 wind-up applications in four months signals IRD’s patience is gone

The numbers that should make every owner check their tax account For years, deferring GST and PAYE was the working-capital trick...

By B2B News | 01 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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Treasury’s core economic credibility is now officially in question

A blunt verdict from The Terrace New Zealand's central economic adviser has just been told, in writing, that it is losing...

By B2B News | 01 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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MCERT is now the single gatekeeper for every major development decision in New Zealand

As of today, every significant decision about where you can build, how your goods move, and what infrastructure gets funded...

By B2B News | 01 Jul 2026 | 5 min read
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June listings hit a six-year high as seller realism takes hold

Listings up, but sales tell the real story New Zealand homeowners have stopped holding out for the boom. June 2026 produced...

By B2B News | 01 Jul 2026 | 4 min read
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