Air NZ has edged out New Zealand Post to claim the top spot in a study of corporation reputation, while Telecom has avoided the wooden spoon - but only because Exxon Mobil has just joined the list.

Fonterra has named Dutch dairy executive Theo Spierings as its new chief executive.

The troubled management of the collapsed Blue Chip empire has been laid bare in company documents.

Former Nathans directors Mervyn Doolan, Donald Young and Kenneth Moses have been found guilty on five charges of breaching the Securities Act. They have been remanded on bail and will be sentenced on September 2.

Retailers helped boost Wall Street after a surprisingly buoyant jobs report and better-than-expected sales at big retailers.

Taxpayers would pay most of the cost of repairing future earthquake damage to uninsured Christchurch infrastructure, a spokesman for Finance Minister Bill English says.

It's a fallacy that businesses can run with no owner participation, says David Newport, director of Switch Business.

Glass maker Metro GlassTech is the latest heavily indebted overseas private equity owned business to get into strife with its bankers, says one report.

Qantas hopes 350 - or five per cent - of its cabin crew will take up voluntary redundancy.

Peter Boxall asks: What makes the workforce happy, and how can we build on it?

Let's look at why customer service is so important to the bottom line.

Are the raft of employee 'engagement' surveys that show New Zealand workers are unhappy with ther work really accurate?