Simon Hartley

Children's clothing company Pumpkin Patch is back in talks with its banks, and considering whether further restructuring provisions are required.

Fletcher Building has posted a more than 70% gain in profit, with the New Zealand construction division delivering record revenue and Australian earnings improving.

A housing cost index shows homes in New Zealand's four main centres are up more than 21% since the 2007-08 global financial crisis, with Dunedin at present the cheapest of the four centres.

Heartland Bank has delivered a ''solid'' full year result and issued upbeat profit guidance for 2017, picking this year's $54.2 million profit could be up 5%-10% in a year's time.

Tourism, construction and health services helped underpin service sector gains in the South for July.

Planners are recommending Port Otago go ahead with a proposal for extensive earthworks to stabilise the base of Flagstaff Hill overlooking Port Chalmers, in a project worth more than $500,000.

Complaints against the Otago Regional Council have been laid by Cr Gerry Eckhoff with the Ombudsman and also the Office of the Auditor-general over  exclusion of the public from a recent meeting.

Beleagured Steel & Tube - grappling with global steel prices at 13-year lows - managed to beat its downgraded profit guidance, given in May.

Otago Southland's manufacturing for July remained flat but in expansion, yet well up on the same period for the past two years.

Food prices fell 1.3% in the year to July and dairy prices contributed significantly.

IkeGPS has gained $5.25 million in additional capital from new Australian investors, allaying some concerns it was running low on cash.

Central Otago Lakes has topped the country for the largest regional median housing price gain in a year - up 32%.

Despite facing similar space shortages, Port Otago will not be considering using automated straddle carriers which are soon to be phased in at Ports of Auckland.

Oceana Gold expects to be mining its new Coronation North open pit commercially during 2017 at Macraes in East Otago, subject to the outcome of last week's application to have its resource consent...

The first of two new oil tankers coming into service to replenish fuel supplies at 10 ports around the country arrived in Dunedin yesterday on its maiden visit.

Winter trading woes have struck clothing retailer Hallenstein Glasson, which has signalled flat sales and expects a decline of more than 20% in after-tax profit for the year.

A potential three-year mine life extension beyond 2020 is in the offing for Oceana Gold’s mainstay Macraes mine in East Otago.