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Business leaders named in King's Birthday Honours

Vegetable-growing, IT, a four-day week, journalism: honours for leaders in their fields.

NZ's richest man does year's biggest leasing deal on new $100m warehouse

Warehouses for Synlait's new southeast Asia plant-based export operation.

Ikea opening: giant retailer to study nearly 1000 Kiwi homes

'We do a number of home visits to see how people live, what their needs are.'

Ikea finally on the way to NZ: Opening date revealed as building begins at Sylvia Park

Sylvia Park store will be size of three rugby fields - and yes it will have the meatballs.

‘Urgently reduce expenses’: Builder AHS Group eyes redundancies

'If we’re not building anything, we don’t particularly need a whole lot of builders.'

British buyer snaps up prison, school and uni contracts in giant $205m deal

Public-private partnership deal to sell contracts on jail, 11 schools, uni accommodation.

Latest data suggests ‘possible floor approaching’ in plummeting house prices

New reports from OneRoof, Corelogic and ANZ all suggest house prices may have bottomed out

Business confidence rebounding, but is it too soon for Reserve Bank’s inflation fight?

The construction sector is reporting an improved outlook, according to the ANZ survey.

'Top-tier destination': Luxury hotels get multi-million dollar makeovers

“We will be needing additional housekeeping and restaurant staff.”

3km pathway: New build begins along Pāpāmoa coast

The shared path will have rest stops, new public toilets and spots for food trucks.

Biggest retail property deal of year: who paid $85.7m?

'Seven properties currently under contract, two further sales pending' - Whillans.

Art remake heartbreak: Fire wrecked NZICC glass 'forest' panels

'Hopefully, something can be done with the old ones. Maybe they can be ground up...'

Kiwi Property makes record sales at malls

Big jump in sales at Sylvia Park, LynnMall and The Base.

Focus: City Rail Link boss on opening date, dealing with AT and learning from overseas mistakes

City Rail Link CEO Sean Sweeney talks exclusively to Bernard Orsman inside the freshly completed rail tunnel on the project's opening date and how the team learned from mistakes made overseas. Video / NZ Herald

IRD, creditors chasing $19m from failed Rainbow childcare chain

Employees are owed about $640,000 as "worrying" ECE closure saga claims casualties.

Auckland hostel safety failures revealed: Inspector missed locked fire escape door

A complaint about the potentially fatal error did not lead to enforcement action.