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Mexico manufacturing to ramp up

Cheap imports see bed factory jobs go

Cheaper imported furniture means job losses at part of company owned by makers of Sleepyhead beds.

NZ Steel workers go on 24-hour strike

Fire at fertiliser works contained

Company balance sheets get stronger

$478 to be true (adidas) All Blacks supporter

All Blacks fans wanting to watch the Rugby World Cup in the latest supporters' gear will....

Manufacturing expands as firms look to Australia

3D TV glasses to be standard issue

3D television buyers are no longer locked into a single brand of glasses under a new inititative launched by the TV manufacturing giants.

Economy shows surprising muscle

GDP growth twice as strong as forecasters picked despite earthquake

Economy surges - GDP up 0.8pc

New Zealand's economy kicked off 2011 with a bang, growing at twice the forecast pace and the fastest since December 2009 as a resurgent manufacturing sector drove the nation's revival in the face of Canterbury's earthquakes.

NZ manufacturers avoid worst of high dollar

Rakon crystallises high-tech China project

Rakon is celebrating the opening of a new plant in China.

Comfort and compactness in engine revamp

High dollar sours sales increase for exporters

Business confidence jump raises spectre of inflation

Union plans to picket Chinese rail wagons

Union workers are threatening to picket the arrival of a shipment of Chinese-made railway wagons at the Port of Tauranga.