BDBDBanking and financeManufacturing grows at fastest pace in 8 monthsManufacturing grew at the fastest pace in eight months in January but employment in the sector is shrinking.13 Feb 10:15 PM
AgribusinessRakon shares plunge 24pc on guidance cutRakon's share price dropped by nearly 24pc to an all-time low today after the high-tech components maker cut its earnings guidance for the second time since December.12 Feb 10:20 PM
OpinionDamien Grant: Economic tide has hit manufacturingDavid Shearer and his cohort of prospective coalition partners, the Greens, Mana and NZ First, are holding a show-trial into who killed the manufacturing industry.09 Feb 04:30 PM
ManufacturingDollar drops on unemployment fall newsThe New Zealand dollar fell by more than half a US cent today after labour data showed that the employment rate fell to its lowest point in 10 years.07 Feb 12:00 AM
BDBDEmploymentUnemployment down 0.4pc (+video)New Zealand's unemployment rate fell from a 13-year high in the last three months of 2012 as people stopped looking for work and the participation rate shrank.06 Feb 09:55 PM
OpinionPeter Lyons: How we go about inflationI pity manufacturers in New Zealand. They are the collateral damage of our narrow approach to controlling inflation.05 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionBryan Gould: NZ swims against exchange rate tideThat dwindling band who continue to deny our economy is being hurt by an overvalued currency will usually - in the face of the indisputable evidence - take refuge as a last resort.05 Feb 04:30 PM
BDBDManufacturingLabour costs up 0.5pc as quake rebuild quickensNew Zealand labour costs rose in the final three months of 2012 as the gathering pace of Canterbury's reconstruction effort saw the building and construction sector underpin gains.04 Feb 10:30 PM
ManufacturingProspects 'limited' after job lossesWorkers who will lose their jobs when the Summit Wool Spinners' Oamaru plant closes could struggle to find work and may have to move, the Otago Chamber of Commerce says.31 Jan 07:25 PM
OpinionEditorial: Calls to focus on exchange rate should be ignoredTimes are very tough in manufacturing. The global recession has merely contributed an additional woe to a sector whose share of economic activity has been declining for more than two decades.29 Jan 04:30 PM
ManufacturingManufacturers threaten to quit NZMore leading export companies are on the verge of moving overseas due to the high dollar, Opposition MPs were told yesterday by manufacturers.28 Jan 04:30 PM
OpinionJohn Armstrong: Inquiry exposes Govt vulnerability on exchange rateA lot of exporters of manufactured products had been waiting for an opportunity to vent anguish over the high exchange rate, writes John Armstrong. The targets of the anger - John Key, the Reserve Bank, Steven Joyce and the Treasury - were absent.28 Jan 04:30 PM
Banking and financeProduction barely expandsThe manufacturing sector ended 2012 much as it had spent the whole year, just barely on the right side of the line between expansion and contraction, the BNZ-Business New Zealand performance of manufacturing index (PMI) indicates.24 Jan 04:30 PM
OpinionBryan Gould: Crisis in manufacturing goes unheededAn uncompetitive economy like ours becomes more and more dependent on those fewer and fewer sectors that can compete in international terms, writes Bryan Gould.22 Jan 04:30 PM
ManufacturingOnus on makers to prove claimsMisleading nutrition and health claims about food will be stopped under new regulations on labelling.18 Dec 04:30 PM
Banking and financeGDP growth has likely slowedA slowdown from the first half of the year is expected when economic growth figures for the September quarter come out on Thursday.16 Dec 04:30 PM
OpinionCatherine Beard: Manufacturing's future has a new faceThere is no denying that making products in New Zealand is vital to having a healthy economy.10 Dec 04:30 PM
New ZealandTimber workers wait to hear their fateRotorua timber industry worker Daniel Mathew is philosophical about the possibility of losing his job.29 Nov 04:06 AM
ConstructionConstruction growth may be keyManufactured exports have been faring much better than domestic sales.26 Nov 04:30 PM
New ZealandNZ manufacturing 'in crisis'Carter Holt Harvey has told staff it plans to cut around 70 jobs in Rotorua and Tokoroa before Christmas.26 Nov 04:40 AM
