The Council of Trade Unions Together 2020 work survey results released today show more people are reporting that their income kept up with their cost of living in 2019 than previously, but there are still significant improvements needed.

Syndex is becoming a frequent friend to the crowdfunding set, supporting the recent and successful Puro New Zealand raise (medicinal cannabis and CBD-hemp) and less recently to the capital raise of Behemoth Brewing.

The sale price of a well-publicised former P lab in South Auckland blew all expectations, selling at auction for $880,000 - well clear of its $855,000 2017 CV.

A merry time was had by shoppers and merchants this year, across the Paymark network. A new peak spend was reached on Friday 20 December and spending over the six weeks leading into Christmas Day was up an underlying 4.6% on last year to $8,887 million.

Whakatāne District Council and Tourism Bay of Plenty are encouraging visitors to explore all that Whakatāne and the Bay of Plenty has to offer and support the region over the summer months.

Christmas Eve is often one of the busiest shopping days of the year and 2019 is proving to be no different.

While final sales figures are yet to be collated, we are on track to be close to the record figures from Friday of $297.5 million for the day.

Workers at two Bunnings retail stores; Waikanae and Te Aroha, learned today that their stores are closing forever on 27 December 2019.

More detail about the business support for affected businesses in the aftermath of the Whakaari/White Island volcanic eruption in Whakatāne has been released today by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

Spending through Paymark hit a new daily high last week, reaching $297.5 million through 5.1 million card transactions on Friday 20 December.

The updated Tesla Model X has achieved excellent safety scores in the latest round of ANCAP safety testing, in line with the Tesla Model 3 which also achieved high scores earlier in the year.