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...

eBikes ahoy! How an NZ startup is trying to bring the e-biking revolution to...

By Harsimran Julka Fed up with the problem of finding a parking space in downtown or around Queen Street, an e-bike may be the best way...
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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...

How A Young Energy Drinks Startup Is Trying To Beat Giants In NZ

Can a small business compete with industry behemoths like RedBull and Monster, or even consider doing so? With their newly formed Guayasa-based drink, Phoric - a...

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...

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,...

Fisher & Paykel Launches Evora – A Mask For Sleep Apnea

OCT 7, 2021: New Zealand's largest healthcare appliance maker Fisher & Paykel has launched a full face mask to cure patients suffering from sleep...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Auckland Airport Appoints Carrie Hurihanganui As New CEO

OCT 5, 2021: The Auckland Airport Board has appointed Carrie Hurihanganui as the company’s new Chief Executive. Auckland Airport Chair Patrick Strange said: “I am...
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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...

Setting up scene for first sale: When restaurant ambience matters

By Dougie Beck, director, Spacetime Bloody Mary is for the morning after, when you need to sober up and get down to business. As David closed...

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...