Simon Hartley

Growth opportunities for New Zealand King Salmon Investments, which is seeking more than $30million capital and dual stock exchange listings, lie mainly in three new farms, granted consent but yet...

Explorer New Zealand Oil & Gas wants to hasten its year-old share buy-back programme and a tender offer to purchase $22million of its shares opens on September 16.

Otago will be well represented next week by companies, geoscientists and students at the annual conference of the New Zealand branch of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in...

Construction consents around the country for houses hit a flat spot for July, down more than 10% month on month, but otherwise got a boost from commercial work.

Passenger  numbers and retailing underpinned a strong year's trading for Auckland International Airport. Profits were up more than 17% and employees will get a $1500 performance bonus.

Salmon farmer New Zealand King Salmon Investments has signalled its intention to launch an initial public offering and dual-list on the NZX and ASX bourses, looking to raise at least $30 million.

A listed Australian coal and tungsten exploration company has pegged two blocks totalling 875sqkm for low-impact gold prospecting, near Lawrence and Roxburgh in Otago.

"Steady increasing sales" for 2016 and a fourth product launch was the message to shareholders from Dunedin cancer diagnostic company Pacific Edge yesterday.

The controversy of seabed mining is again under scrutiny.

Asset write downs have contributed to a more than tripling of annual losses for New Zealand Oil & Gas, from $15.5 million a year ago to $51.8 million.

A return to historical gross refinery margins for Refining New Zealand at Marsden Point was reflected in its half-year result.

Tourism Holdings (THL) has reported a 21% increase in after-tax profit to $24.4million and reaffirmed its $30million profit target for 2018.

Petrol prices have risen 11c per litre in less than a fortnight, in line with the rising cost of refining crude over the same period, according to the Automobile Association.

Construction and house prices across Otago are expected to continue strengthening but capacity constraints could hamper tourism growth.

After 15 years lying dormant, the only empty commercial section in the Esplanade block at St Clair  will remain vacant for the time being.

Twenty-year-old Dunedin company Energy Link has launched a new electricity procurement website — The Energy Exchange — to secure competitive energy auctions for businesses.

Records tumbled for listed South Port this week after it delivered a much stronger  full-year result than expected, underpinned by higher bulk cargo tonnages.

Shell is preparing to sell all or some of its New Zealand operations, which carry an estimated value of more than $1 billion.

Construction will  start shortly on what could be Dunedin’s priciest apartment — a $1.6 million three-bedroom dwelling fronting the Esplanade at St Clair.