French dairy giant Danone has bought two New Zealand plants for an undisclosed sum, one of them in South Otago, co-owned by Dunedin businessman Grant Paterson.
Three years after its multimillion-dollar collapse, the liquidation of boutique Queenstown insurance company Western Pacific Insurance appears set to drag on for at least another two years.
The likely multimillion-dollar sale of nine Southland farms owned by debt-ridden state-owned enterprise Solid Energy appear set to be concluded.
Fitzroy Pub On The Park is up for mortgagee sale offering vacant possession, after mysteriously ceasing trading in recent months.
Listed New Zealand Oil and Gas (NZOG) is continuing its southern exploration programme at three separate prospects and a third ship-borne seismic survey is likely next summer.
Further exploration has been suspended by West Coast mine developer Bathurst Resources as it waits out a global coal price slump.
Nationally, new residential building consents have hit a six-and-a-half-year high for March, but numbers remain almost 30% lower than a decade ago.
Oceana Gold is estimating its pit road at its Macraes mine in East Otago may reopen within a fortnight, following its closure on April 19 after a slump caused by heavy rain.
Oceana Gold has posted a strong first-quarter result, underpinned by increasing gold and copper production from its Philippines operations.
New Zealand's monthly exports for the first time went beyond $5 billion in March, aided by increased meat, oil and machinery exports.
Dunedin company Farra Engineering has taken delivery of new specialist $1 million sheet metal-working machine, the first of its kind in the country.
House prices are being picked to continue to rise for the year and flagging sales numbers get a boost, before hitting a ''pervasive slowdown'' in 2015, according to Westpac economist Dominick Stephens.
While 76 Allied airmen tunnelled out of German prison camp Stalag Luft III in March 1944, just three of the escapees found freedom. Of 73 recaptured, 50 were murdered by the Gestapo, on Adolf Hitler's orders.
Otago's contribution to New Zealand's gross domestic product has declined, overshadowed by heat in the economies of Auckland and Canterbury, but it still made gains where eight other areas did not.
A $3.5 million development, comprising two restaurants, a bakery, offices and four apartments in two separate buildings, is proposed for Dunedin's St Clair Esplanade.
Port Otago has given its best indication yet that proposals to begin dredging the channel may be further away than anticipated.
Port Otago will be looking for a ''premium'' when it decides to sell its controversial 15.5% eight-year-old stake in listed rival Lyttelton Port of Christchurch.
Queenstown and Dunedin are poles apart in commercial property investor confidence, as the tourism capital vies with Auckland for top spot.
The Reserve Bank's loan to value ratio (LVR) restrictions on banks' lending has seen a large decline in the lower end bracket of Dunedin house sales, and an increased workload to sell them.
Genesis Energy's sharemarket debut resulted in $24 million worth of shares being traded in its first three minutes.
