Sports Sponsorship Does Have Business Benefits
August 28th, 2009
Associate Professor Kevin Voges of Canterbury University has co-authored a study with two Queensland academics which has found consumer perception of a company which …
Archive for August, 2009
Errant Directors To Face Harsher Penalties?
August 28th, 2009
The Securities Commission wants some company directors banned for life, and more sent to jail, as part of an overhaul of securities laws.
At present, …
Public Private Partnerships On Fast Track
August 28th, 2009
Finance Minister Bill English says NZ is a decade behind other countries in using public-private partnerships to accelerate, manage risk, and get value for …
Is The Dollar A Threat To The Economy?
August 21st, 2009
Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard says the exchange rate is not helping the sustainability of future growth and if the easing in monetary conditions …
Putting Productivity In The Front Seat
August 21st, 2009
Business NZ has been casting its eye over productivity and how to lift it in NZ. It says the buck stops with the private …
Key Hits Unemployment
August 21st, 2009
Continuing his anti-recession “rolling maul” John Key has promised further measures to tackle soaring unemployment on top of a $152 million plan to get …
Productivity Will Stay Down Until The Dollar Falls
August 14th, 2009
More discussion on how to bring the dollar down – the NZ Manufacturers and Exporters Association is warning overly optimistic comment and forecasts of …
What The Aussies Do On Tax Is Important
August 14th, 2009
While NZ and Aust draw closer to a single economic market, there are other indications of how closely related the two economies are even …
Emissions Reduction Targets All Unaffordable
August 14th, 2009
Employers & Manufacturers Association (Northern) CEO Alasdair Thompson says the “40% cut by 2020′ being promoted by Greenpeace cannot be afforded by NZers, and …
Kiwi Investors Resist Playing The Share Market
August 7th, 2009
Wealthy Kiwi investors are not putting their money into the productive economy – they are sitting on their fortunes and resisting the temptation to …
PM’s Adviser Warns Science Community Fading
August 7th, 2009
In what will be seen as a blow to NZ Inc’s long term competitiveness, Professor Peter Gluckman chief science adviser to John Key, says …
Low Productivity Not Easy To Change
August 7th, 2009
A new book ‘Employment Relations in NZ,’ by AUT employment relations Professor Erling Rasmussen says NZ’s low productivity goes back several decades and there …
