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Success: Bananas with an ethical flavour
All Good trio are keen to expand the business beyond fruit, while sticking with their fair trade strategy.

Nature Baby top seller for US retail chain
New Zealand boutique babywear brand Nature Baby is gaining sales momentum in the United States after being picked up by one of the country's leading fashion retail chains.

Small business: Working with charities - Qiujing Wong
Borderless is a social change company with a mission to create thinking and actions to create positive change in society.

Small business: Working with charities - Pete Russell
Local fruit and vegetable delivery business Ooooby founder Pete Russell on his partnership with the Auckland City Mission.

Minister ignored minimum wage advice
Labour Minister Simon Bridges ignored advice from Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment to raise the minimum wage to between $13.80 and $13.90 an hour.

Small business: Working with charities - Wallace Cotton
Bill Wallace, co-founder of Wallace Cotton on why his company is involved with charity and the Starship Foundation.

Small business: Working with charities - Liz Gibbs
Why should a small business get involved with a charity?

Small business: Working with charities - Lisa Munro
Lisa Munro, NZ Marketing Manager at Blackmores which has a tie up with the World Wildlife Fund.

London: A city where clever Kiwis fly
Richard Reed walked around London every day for eight months fruitlessly looking for a place to open his coffee shop.

Gym stoush resolved
A legal stoush between two Auckland gym owners has finally been resolved with three fought-over gyms set to be transformed back to their original state.

Small business: The need for a board - EROAD's Steven Newman
Does a small business need a board of directors? Yes, says Steven Newman, CEO of tech business EROAD.

Small business: Helen Cross - Cross Ventures
Helen Cross, Managing Director, Cross Ventures acts as an independent director or advisor to the board for eight businesses in the SME space including NZ Tax Refunds, Power Business Service and SnapComms.

Small business: Rebecca Thomas - Mint Asset Management
Rebecca Thomas is chief executive of specialist boutique funds manager Mint Asset Management which has more than $220m in funds under management.

NZ game developers shine
New Zealand's game developers produced six games which hit top 10 iOS downloads charts in the US last year.

Million dollar boost for wireless cow sensor study
An agri-tech company developing wireless devices to track the health of cows has been awarded a $1 million grant.

Henri Eliot: Advisory board good starting point for small companies
For most SMEs, an advisory is a good starting point. It provides non-binding strategic advice to organisations, unlike the board of directors appointed under the Companies Act.

Small Business: Paul Stewart - ON-Brand
You know your business has a good future when your capital-raising attracts new shareholders of the calibre of former Kiwibank head and Xero chairman Sam Knowles.

Success: Fro-yo chain eyes global growth
Only 14 months after it began, KiwiYo frozen yoghurt chain already has its sights set on overseas markets

Your place, the workplace
Is working from home really working? Anthony Doesburg reports.

Hope in 20 year tax stoush
A businessman is confident he can win a 20-year, $4 million legal battle with Inland Revenue.

Small business: The Collective
The Collective's Angus Allan on the company's manufacturing story in New Zealand and abroad.

Small business: Tracey King - Ti Tonics
Ti Tonics co-founder Tracey King, a PhD in health psychology, launched Ti Tonics in April 2010 distributing it throughout Australasia.