Simon Hartley

The egg industry has introduced a voluntary traceability ink-stamp for individual eggs, and the country's largest commercial producer has already adopted the scheme.

The interest-driving official cash rate remains at a record 1.5% low and the Reserve Bank is clearly stating a case for cutting it in coming months.

Would-be diatomite miner Plaman Resources has been hit with a three-fold criticism by the Overseas Investment Office.

A Plaman Resources subsidiary company in New Zealand has been placed in liquidation alongside its parent, having total liabilities of more than $500,000.

The Reserve Bank is forecast to leave the interest-driving official cash rate (OCR) unchanged tomorrow, on the record low 1.5%, but with a bias towards lowering it further later in the year.

Otago households have the highest economic confidence in the country, despite a national groundswell of dissatisfaction with the economy at present.

It appears the ancient Foulden Maar near Middlemarch and its millions of tonnes of fossil-laden diatomite have been saved from a miner’s excavator. Simon Hartley investigates who was behind Plaman...

Failed would-be diatomite miner Plaman Resources has total debt of more than $33.6million, but appears to have at least $17.8million cash in trust with a global law firm.

Consumer confidence remains in the doldrums and per-capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth has fallen to its slowest pace in eight years.

The fate of a would-be Middlemarch diatomite mine near Dunedin remains firmly in the hands of the Overseas Investment Office, which has received 25 new submissions on the plans of Australian...

House prices are being picked to surge next year, underpinned by low mortgage interest rates and recent cancellation of capital gains tax plans.

Manufacturing in Otago and Southland eased back for May but remains in expansion mode and in line with 12-month average.

House sales across Dunedin, Central Otago and the Queenstown Lakes District picked up in May, as did median prices, which were up in a range from 8% to almost 19%.

Growth in consumer financing and mortgage lending led to SBS Bank's full-year operating surplus growing 15.5% to $40.8million for its full-year result.

Greenpeace has blasted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern over the arrival in New Zealand waters this week of the oil rig COSL Prospector.

More than 900 dams across New Zealand, including hydro, mining, water supply and farming, are to be scrutinised for proposed new safety regulations.

The Fiordland Lobster Company has won a top exporting award, becoming the supreme winner of the recent HSBC New Zealand China Trade Association awards.

Further applications have surfaced of Australian would be diatomite miner Plaman Resources seeking to become a party to Environment Court appeal proceedings.