US Tops List of Applicants, Investor Visa To Attract $1.3 Billion In NZ
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s Active Investor Plus Visa continues to gain momentum, with the United States leading the surge in applications under the newly revised...
Why Hamilton Witnessed A Sharp Rise In House Prices In 20 Years
WELLINGTON: A recent study has assessed the reasons for a rapid rise in housing prices and rentals in the last 20 years in New Zealand's...
Auckland Storm: 7 Tips to keep the lights on for your startup during #PowerOutage
By Team Startupanz
Last night’s storm shook up all of Auckland and has rendered over 100,000 households without power. More showers and strong winds are...
NZ Expands Student Work Hours, Move To Help Local Businesses
WELLINGTON: On 14 July 2025, the New Zealand Government launched the International Education Going for Growth Plan, aimed at strengthening the country’s education sector...
MASTERCLASS: 8 Lessons To Learn From NZ In Curbing The Coronavirus
By Harsimran Julka
AUCKLAND, MAY 14th: Even as the world is reeling from the effects of coronavirus shutting down shopping malls, schools, bars and restaurants,...
ECONOMY: Building Activity & Construction Slowing Down in NZ
WELLINGTON: The seasonally adjusted volume of building activity was $8.9 billion in the June 2023 quarter, down 0.1 percent compared with the March 2023...
The Warehouse Group: Online Sales Jump 5% To $393 million in 2021
AUCKLAND: The Warehouse Group Limited (“the Group”) has announced a record result for the full year ended August 1, 2021.
The Group delivered sales of...
What’s it like to be a female entrepreneur in New Zealand?
Author: Alina Siegfried
Recently I asked a successful female entrepreneur, what was the one thing that New Zealand could do to encourage more women into entrepreneurship?
Her...
Why an IRD number is critical to starting up in New Zealand?
By Editorial Staff
Studying in New Zealand or setting up a business here? An In Inland Revenue Department number becomes critical to all your needs.
It’s...
Ethereum Founder Talks Blockchain in New Zealand
Author: Alina Siegfried
Last night in Wellington, the BizDojo played host to one of the most exciting and innovative players in the blockchain space — Vitalik Buterin, the...
Why China is one of the biggest trade partners of New Zealand?
Even as NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern attended the China Business Summit in Auckland this week, thronged by executives from Fonterra to Alibaba, it's...
Surviving Pandemic: DRM Toolkit For Dummies 101 – The Basics
By Dougie Beck
A business disruption response management toolkit comes with embedded Covid Crisis Specific action plans. It is to be used to manage the...
Bringing Entrepreneurship To Anyone in New Zealand, No Matter Where They Are
Author: Dan Khan
Today marks a landmark event for our team with the official launch of our new virtual accelerator and incubator programmes, bringing entrepreneurship support,...
Top reasons to launch a startup in Wellington
Wellington’s startup scene turns bright ideas into successful realities. Our tight-knit community, sophisticated startup ecosystem, and support from various sectors facilitates collaboration allowing start-ups...
Ryman’s Half Yearly Profit Jumps 8.5% to $95.9 mn In 2021
Ryman Healthcare’s unaudited first half underlying profit rose 8.5% to $95.9 million, with demand for retirement living and aged care remaining strong despite the...
Over 500 startups thrive in NZ, even as VCs invest over USD 140 mn:...
With a population of fewer than 5 million people, the New Zealand startup ecosystem is up and thriving.
There are about 500 startups across several...
The Warehouse Group Interim Sales Decline 5.7% On Covid Impact
AUCKLAND: New Zealand's largest retailer the $3.4 billion Warehouse Group Limited (“the Group”) has provided a trading update for the five months ending January...
FINANCE: What Is The KiwiSaver Scheme & How To Invest In It?
The KiwiSaver Scheme is an initiative designed to help New Zealanders secure a more stable financial future. Introduced in 2007, the program encourages residents...
RBNZ Hikes OCR To 4.25%, House Prices Likely To Crash 20%
WELLINGTON: The NZ Monetary Policy Committee today increased the Official Cash Rate (OCR) from 3.5 percent to 4.25 percent. The rate hike aimed at...
Staff Shortages & Freight Hike, Big Challenges For NZ Retailers: KPMG
By Leon Bowker & David Ossa
Despite a successful strategy to contain the pandemic in 2020, New Zealand was hit hard by the Delta variant...
Life Lessons: What I Learnt From Life Battling My Stage 3 Cancer
By Dougie Beck
You may well have heard many apocryphal stories of people who have cancer not surviving because they had a negative attitude and...
FAIRWORK: Auckland Bottle Store To Pay $46,000 For Exploiting Worker
A Super Liquor bottle store in Papatoetoe is the latest bottle store to be penalised and ordered to pay arrears for exploiting a migrant...
NZ’s Inflation Spikes To A Record 32-Year High To 7.2% In 2022
Even as the world reels under high inflation in a post pandemic world marred by the Russia-Ukraine war, New Zealand is seeing some of...
RBNZ Hikes Official Cash Rate (OCR) From 3% to 3.5%
On the back of a streghtning dollar leading to a rise in inflationary pressures, the RBNZ Monetary Policy Committee has increased the Official Cash...
Sales Messaging: Why It Matters, What To Avoid & How To Get It Right
By Alex McNaughtan
As a founder or sales professional, it isn’t easy to create strong and succinct sales messaging that describes what it is you...
GETTING TO THE ‘YES’: The Story of David Junior & how he cracked his...
By Dougie Beck, director, Spacetime
Monday morning bright and early David Junior, a senior manager with a big firm of accountants, bounced into his office...
New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern Quits As PM, Hipkins To Lead Labour
WELLINGTON: New Zealand's most well known politician in current times Jacinda Ardern has announced she will step down as Prime Minister and Leader of...
Moving to a foreign land to start a business? Here are 10 tips to...
Starting a business is tough. But starting it in a country where you are a stranger and more of a tourist has its pros...
Learnings From Pandemic: The Benefits of Disruption Response Management
By Dougie Beck
If the Covid crisis has taught us anything it is that many organisations were not ready to cope with the disruptions caused....
Starting An Online Takeaway? Here Are A Few E-Tips For Success
The instant food takeaway industry in New Zealand is booming, with over 160,000 curries ordered on Menulog in 2019. During first three months of...
Oceania Healthcare Records Strong 10 Month Results
MAY 22, 2021: Oceania has announced unaudited Underlying Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of $56.2m for the 10 month period ended...
Hiring An Employee? Here Are Top Things A Payslip Should Contain
Hiring an employee and wish to produce a payslip every week? It's good to know the format of the payslip in order to provide...
AI-Day 2018: Here are 5 key takeaways & why NZ could lead world in...
While the rest of the world is yet to decide whether to use Artificial Intelligence, some governments even fearing massive job losses, New Zealand...
Contact Launches New ‘Good Nights’ Electricity Plan
AUG 18, 2021: Contact Energy (“Contact”) has released a brand-new power plan for Kiwi consumers, offering a whopping three hours of free power a...
FINANCE: Applying For A NZ Startup Loan, Know About CCCFA First
The Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act (CCCFA) of 2003 is a pivotal legislation in New Zealand that governs consumer credit contracts. This act...
Global Payments: SWIFT extends gpi to all cross border payments
WELLINGTON: The SWIFT Community is to universally adopt the gpi service, in a move which will see all 10,000 banks on SWIFT's global network...
