Positive response to angel investors’ event
Positive response to angel investors’ event
Local businesses got their chance to pitch at the newly formed regional angel investors group.
Jacob McSweeny
Openness to adapting helps firm flourish
Openness to adapting helps firm flourish
Education Perfect founders Craig and Shane Smith have come a long way since founding the company in 2007.
Threshold change welcomed
Threshold change welcomed
The lowering of the wage subsidy threshold has been welcomed by business in the South.
Alcoholic iced tea RTD wins top Audacious prize
Alcoholic iced tea RTD wins top Audacious prize
The Audacious innovation programme that helps University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic students start their own businesses has announced its latest winners.
Station opening faces delays
Station opening faces delays
Covid-19 restrictions have pushed the opening date for the new NPD station on Andersons Bay Rd out to the end of August.
Game on! Come and play, store owner says
Game on! Come and play, store owner says
Not many people could say playing a lot of Yu-Gi-Oh! would result in them opening a retail store on Dunedin’s George St. But Greg Mansfield has done just that.
20 employees laid off at game studio
20 employees laid off at game studio
More than half of Dunedin’s Rocketwerkz studio were made redundant earlier this year after a game they were working on was cancelled.
E-commerce as Covid antidote
E-commerce as Covid antidote
Businesses going online to sell their products must have a strategy guiding their activity and avoid throwing their eggs into one basket, a Dunedin marketing expert says.
Farmers cuts confirmed
Farmers cuts confirmed
The group that owns Farmers department stores has confirmed some staff across the company have been let go as a result of Covid-19’s impacts, but remaining staff’s wages will return to normal soon.
Scott Tech to announce ‘right-sizing’ measures
Scott Tech to announce ‘right-sizing’ measures
Scott Tech is expected to announce its decision on a restructure this week that could lead to 15 jobs being cut from its South Island branches.
Dunedin no longer to be port of call for ship
Dunedin no longer to be port of call for ship
A shipping company carrying about 15% of the container volume through Port Otago has decided to stop coming to Port Chalmers.
Recovery will be slow: bar owners
Recovery will be slow: bar owners
Bar owners in the South say they face a long road ahead, despite a good start when bars opened their doors on Thursday after being closed under alert level regulations.
Tenants slowly coming back to co-working offices
Tenants slowly coming back to co-working offices
"There's a bit of humour in the fact that we definitely don’t want to be a company named Petridish that has an outbreak."
Slow start to post-lockdown spending
Slow start to post-lockdown spending
Retailers in the South say there are signs of consumers holding back spending, but it is still too early to get the full picture of what a post-lockdown economy will mean for them.
Agent: open borders only real lifeline
Agent: open borders only real lifeline
Otago travel agents are now turning their efforts to the domestic market while also trying to ensure refunds for clients with cancelled overseas trips.
Service business at nadir in April performance survey
Service business at nadir in April performance survey
After almost an entire month in lockdown the services sector in the South recorded in April its lowest level of activity since it was first recorded in 2007.
Wage subsidy extension needs focus: critic
Wage subsidy extension needs focus: critic
"Zombie" companies could be kept alive while more viable firms struggling to retain staff could fall by the wayside following the Government’s extension to the wage subsidy scheme, a leading tax...
Driver goes ‘out on his own’ with Tesla Model 3
Driver goes ‘out on his own’ with Tesla Model 3
Mark Fuller has a Tesla Model 3 to drive people to the airport in.
South’s PMI in April at its lowest since index began
South’s PMI in April at its lowest since index began
The devastation of the Alert Level 4 lockdown is being revealed, as manufacturing for April in the South was at its lowest since the index began in 2002.
$4 billion in benefits to businesses
$4 billion in benefits to businesses
Businesses hoping to continue getting the extended wage subsidy scheme will need to show a drop in revenue of more than 50% in the month before they apply.