Juice-maker Charlie's shares rose almost 30% yesterday, after the company announced its products would be stocked by supermarket giant Woolworths across six Australian states.
The Green Party is calling for public notification - which would allow for submissions - on Solid Energy's proposal to build a lignite conversion briquetting plant near Mataura, in Southland, for up to $25 million.
Hard hit motorists may have to bear further escalating prices at the pump with medium-term global oil prices forecast to rise.
Port Otago's long-term "next generation" channel-deepening proposal may be its largest project during the past 145 years, but it has attracted widespread criticism, from recreationalists and environmentalists through to scientists.
Southern log and lumber exporters can expect increased orders from Japan once a rebuilding plan gets under way - further boosting the sector's recent recovery.
Dunedin-based Scott Technology has paid $4.4 million for a controlling stake in a Wellington-based crown-owned company specialising in manufacturing electromagnets using high-temperature superconductors.
St Clair developer Stephen Chittock and Calder Stewart Property - who together built 26-room boutique St Clair Beach Resort, valued at $14 million - have parted company, with Mr Chittock retaining no stake in the award-winning hotel.
Fletcher Building has gained its targeted 90%-plus stake in rival Australian company Crane Group, in its more than $1 billion hostile takeover bid.
There are no immediate development plans for the only vacant commercial section in the Esplanade block at St Clair - after almost 10 years of remaining derelict.
Gold explorer listed Glass Earth Gold has begun a $200,000 six-week five-hole drilling programme at its Serpentine prospect, 13km north of Lake Onslow, near Millers Flat.
The risk money launderers might target New Zealand's banking system because of the wide accessibility and availability of banks was "relatively high", the Reserve Bank of New Zealand said yesterday.
Listed Ecoya has announced its revenues will be up almost 75% on guidance in its prospectus and has pared back estimated losses for its maiden full-year result.
The Australian dollar remained stronger than the US dollar yesterday, having eased only slightly after hitting a post 1983-float record on Friday.
Biotech company Pacific Edge, of Dunedin, is confident of securing several licence agreements this year for its mainstay bladder cancer detection test - in development now for more than seven years.
Insider share trading in the United States gleaned almost $US2 billion ($NZ2.7 billion) in profits from the buying and selling of stock in faltering debt-laden companies, according to a prize-winning joint study undertaken by the University of Otago's School of Business and the University of California.
Replacing Japan's nuclear power generation could provide a boon to a number of energy suppliers, including several Australian companies with interests in lng, oil and gas.
Phosphate mining is returning to New Zealand with producer Ravensdown announcing it will be mining phosphate rock from a 450ha South Otago deposit at Clarendon, first mined in the 1900s.
Dunedin-based Blis Technologies has ended a four-year-old multi-year research and development programme with Nestle and begun a new development programme.
On the eve of Port Otago beginning its three-week resource consent application to widen and deepen 13km of the shipping channel, Senior Reporters Simon Hartley and Rebecca Fox recap the issues, submissions and process about to get under way.
Oil exploration company OMV New Zealand - which must decide in July on whether to commit to drilling in the Great South Basin or drop its permit - has purchased a 65% stake in an offshore Taranaki oilfield.
