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Success: Luxury strategy scoops out a market

Boutique ice cream maker shows that customers are prepared to pay top dollar for quality products.

Meat workers pay not docked - CEO

Silver Ferns Farms has hit back at complaints that workers at its Te Aroha plant had their pay deducted for observing a two-minute silence to remember the Pike River miners.

Failed discount plan behind F&P earnings downgrade

An unsuccessful discounting strategy contributed to poor trading results that forced Fisher & Paykel Appliances to downgrade earnings guidance today.

F&P Appliances cuts guidance on weak trading conditions

F&P Appliance shares fall 9pc

Pay cut for two-minute silence

Staff at a North Island freezing works had their pay cut for the official two-minute silence to remember the 29 miners killed in the Pike River mine.

80 jobs axed at Ohakune sawmill

Another 80 job losses announced today in a third sawmill unable to profitably export timber suggests the wood industry is in crisis, says a union representing workers in the sector.

Manufacturing `turning the corner' - survey

Disabled enslaved in China

Government gives $92m to firms for R&D

Calls for Govt to step in to keep poppies on shore

The Government is being asked to step in and make sure ANZAC Day poppies stay New Zealand-made.

Anzac Day poppies to be made offshore

Anzac Day Poppies will be made offshore, New Zealand's Returned Service Association has announced.

<i>Success:</i> Timber maker in the right groove

Gearing down for the recession proves a wise decision...

Inventor clocks up 56 years - and he's not out yet

$125m glassmaking furnace has plenty of bottle

Strong aussie dollar puts damper on growth

Mineral water giant pulls plug on Fiji

Wellington Drive dives after capital raising plan