Clothing and nursery product retailer Postie Plus Group lifted first quarter sales 15 per cent from a year earlier.

Mainfreight has reported a 36.5 per cent fall in half year profit to $10.9 million.

Centro Properties Group is seeing signs of life in the retail sector.

Online shopping in New Zealand is about to boom to $1 billion a year but DVD rental stores, book shops and appliance stores may start to struggle.

All five food subgroups monitored by Stats New Zealand recorded monthly falls in October.

Spending using electronic cards edged ahead in October.