Experience in schools inspires not one, but three businesses.

Last year, Apple released a product. "This product is doomed to fail", said many experts. After all, the type of product had been introduced time and time again, and never succeeded.

New Zealand business confidence plummeted this month, and while the decline was worst in Canterbury, the latest survey shows gloom has set in nationwide following the devastating earthquake.

The Government is being accused of taking a slash and burn approach to spending after Finance Minister Bill English signalled cuts to public services and new figures showed substantial job losses in the sector.

A massive recovery operation in Christchurch is aimed at making it the most "earthquake safe" city in the world, its Mayor Bob Parker says.

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Home cooking and endurance race turn into good business for food technologist.

Alasdair Thompson, chief executive of the Employers and Manufacturers Association, says the Super City needs to put its capital to work where it's most needed.

Richard Kleinert, Deloitte Human Capital practice leader, says effort on the firm's employment brand is a good start

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A group of about 30 Christchurch business people protesting over not being allowed into their CBD businesses have met with Civil Defence officials this afternoon after angry protesters broke through the red zone cordons yesterday.

Civil Defence could have communicated better with frustrated business owners in Christchurch, its minister John Carter says.

People who force their way through cordons into Christchurch's quake-ravaged central business district (CBD) could be killed, police say.

Protests from angry Christchurch business owners locked out of the damaged CBD have intensified today, with police physically intervening when several protesters went inside the cordon.