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Spotless NZ businesses sold in cleaning, catering shakeup
Clients include a major stadium and some of the country's most prestigious schools.
Market conditions 'challenging': Downer NZ pushes up revenue, profit
Downer-owned Hawkins won the new $800m Auckland Airport contract, announced in September.
Business Hub: Changes at top of NZ's second-largest builder
Downer has around 25,000 employees in Australia and around 10,000 in New Zealand.
An alliance to spearhead cyclone recovery effort
Downer aims to build back smarter in Cyclone Gabrielle recovery.
Contractors join forces to fix Hawke's Bay roads
An alliance model sees Waka Kotahi working with Downer, Fulton Hogan and Higgins.
Downer EDI releases half-year result, cites NZ floods
Unprecedented wet weather, labour shortages, productivity problems dog business.
Downer wins A$35b transtasman government contracts
Government contracts 90 per cent of the company's work, up on 56 per cent five years ago.
Masters Games volunteer's memory honoured as whānau step in
The Whanarere whānau have jumped onto the Masters Games volunteer roster.
Commercial contractors win school lunch tender
Big companies get most school lunch contracts as time pressure overrules local jobs.
Local Focus: Calling all Masters, young and old, male and female
Masters Games bigger than previous years. Made with funding from New Zealand on Air.
Penguins calling the shots at Wgtn construction site
Construction workers in Wellington are starting their days with penguin checks.
How canal was drained to retrieve body of crash victim
The truck was submerged and the water needed to be lowered to safely get the body.
Central Hawke's Bay splits $35m roading contracts between two
Downer and Higgins have been awarded two each of the four major contracts.
From the Warehouse to Destiny Church - the Kiwi businesses taking up Govt's wage subsidy scheme
The Warehouse has been paid $52 million through the wage subsidy scheme.
Thunderstorms, heavy downpours and gusty winds to hammer North Island
The wild weather which washed out SH6 near Haast today will hit the North Island tomorrow.
Going underground: Auckland's new transport system
The City Rail Link will carry up to 54,000 passengers an hour around Auckland.
Chorus subbie tells of tough life on the front line
Withheld payments, unexpected deductions and ultra-thin margins for Ultrafast Broadband.
Chorus hires independent investigator after subbie exploitation claims
Company seeks to regain initiative following claims of widespread subbie exploitation.
Receivers probe 13 ex-Hawkins companies, call for creditors issued
It is still too early to tell how much creditors will be able to recover.
Downer mounts takeover for Spotless
Downer has launched a A$1.26 billion takeover bid for ASX-listed Spotless Group.
Kiwis sell building giant to Aussies
An Australian-headquartered business is buying New Zealand's second-biggest builder, ending a long association with the wealthy Auckland-based
Speed camera call after car hits pole
An accident along Whanganui's Mosston Rd which knocked out power to nearly 200 homes has prompted calls for a speed camera in the
Builders tap social media to find staff
Big building companies are tapping into social media to try to tempt young unemployed Aucklanders into construction trades. Fletcher
Downer takes on Nines sponsorship
Engineering and infrastructure group Downer has stepped up as the new naming sponsor for the 2016 NRL Nines, after original major supporter Dick Smith went into receivership.
Woman denied paid parental leave
A woman has been told she would not receive paid parental leave as she failed to chase up her lost application.
Road workers injured on job
More than 50 people have been injured while working on Western Bay of Plenty roads and bridges in the past two years.