A compromise solution is sought by Western Bay mayors so supermarkets planned for growth areas are not disadvantaged by a cap imposed on bottle store numbers.

Business writer David Porter today kicks off a new weekly feature profiling the Bay's top business executives. Today, he talks to Trustpower's Vince Hawksworth.

A $5 million top level extension that will provide 110 new parks is being mooted for the Elizabeth St carpark as occupancy rates boom.

Asbestos has been found in a storage room during renovation work being carried out at a Tauranga branch of The Warehouse.

Two lawyers have been suspended from practice this week - including a Tauranga woman who never turned up court to answer her own charges of dangerous driving.

The sale of a prime 1.4ha block of land in Bureta has been put on hold to allow its Australian owner to weigh up development options for the site.

A Tauranga-based tourism company has found a niche in the international student market by providing group holiday tours.

New Zealand's political treatment of Chinese investment in New Zealand "borders on the disgraceful", according to a leading consultant in Shanghai.

It's a long way from netball hoops to jumping through the hoops of doing business in China but farmer Mike Wilkins is aiming as carefully as his former Silver Fern wife.

Skilled workers are becoming a scarce commodity, writes Jeremy Tauri.

A growing demand for business travel in the Bay of Plenty has led House of Travel's Hamilton office owner/operator to open a new division.

Business owners in a flood-ravaged Tauranga subdivision are demanding answers from the council after their buildings took another hit from so-called one-in-50-year storms.

Over the past week the Bay of Plenty Times has had a number of stories that point to a strong recovery of the Bay economy.