Dunedin financial planner Craig Myles - who once oversaw millions of dollars of South Island investments on behalf of investors - declared himself bankrupt this week.
Shares in Dunedin oral health probiotic manufacturer Blis Technologies have more than doubled in less than two weeks and daily trading volumes are up into the millions.
Elder care provider Ryman Healthcare has booked record underlying profit beyond 20% for its first-half trading to September, while targeting 15% earnings growth for the full year.
Main street sports retailer Kathmandu has highlighted a modest start to its trading year, up 1% during the first 16 weeks, compared to a year ago.
A forest growers' product levy begins on January 1, in a bid to boost the forestry sector's fortunes through research and development, biosecurity, marketing, industry training and education.
Construction of concrete footings and foundations for a $5 million, 17-apartment complex in Filleul St is expected to begin this month.
The BP 2Go Regent petrol station in George St, Dunedin, is closing, after its independent operator decided not to replace its ageing steel tanks, which will be removed.
After a troubled start to its calendar financial year East Otago-based Oceana Gold is reaping benefits from cost savings and predicting a ''strong finish'' to the year, underpinned by better-than-expected copper production from ramping up its Philippines gold-copper mine.
Main street clothing retailer Hallenstein Glasson has delivered a surprise forecast of an expected 20% profit slump, prompting shareholders to sell off stock after the announcement.
Dunedin-based Motor Trade Finance has almost doubled its after-tax profit for the year.
The public finally has access to daily tradeable shares directly invested in dairy farms, albeit in a minimum $20,000 tranche.
Testing times lie ahead in the oil and gas exploration sector, with the Government throwing open its 2014 block exploration tendering round yesterday as protesters converge on Anadarko's drilling ship Noble Bob Douglas off Taranaki.
The developing housing bubble remains the Reserve Bank's prime debt concern, but a shot has also been fired across the bows of the heavily indebted dairy sector.
Two years of intense legal wrangling and work delays have ended with Forest & Bird deciding not to appeal the last Environment Court decision, opening the way for coal mining by Bathurst Resources on the West Coast's Denniston plateau.
The national median house price has hit a record high of $407,525, with the Central Otago lakes region recording the largest increase, up 19.5% to $485,673.
A positive outlook, improving trading conditions and revenue and profit growth suggest Mainfreight will improve earnings on its previous financial year.
The three most recent capital raisings of Dunedin listed company Blis Technologies have raised a total $3.62 million.
Silver Fern Farms' Silverstream lamb-processing plant near Mosgiel will not open for the start of its season as usual in December - but it is not being closed.
International aged healthcare company Bupa is expanding its New Zealand portfolio of rest-homes with three Southern acquisitions - in Dunedin, Gore and Riverton.
National residential home values are now more than 10% above their previous peak of late 2007, with Auckland well beyond that average, while Dunedin values trail at the other end of the spectrum.
