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Expansion plans: Where new McDonald's are rising

Three new Auckland outlets opened last year but another four are coming nationally soon.

Toyota shareholders demand vote against chairman after Japan scandal

Chairman to run gauntlet after major embarrassment for the company.

Global defence groups hiring at fastest rate in decades amid record orders

Financial Times: Companies in sector looking to recruit tens of thousands this year.

S&P welcomes NZ power deal

The ratings agency says the 20-year power deal for Tiwai is a boon for generators.

Watch: Apartment specialist opening hub to show revolutionary building methods

Simplicity Living says it is 'a faster, better, cheaper way to build'.

'Like containers' – new Chinese-built apartments shock Sandringham

Kingsway Ave is a street of mainly older wooden Californian-style bungalows.

BMW and Jaguar Land Rover imported banned Xinjiang part to US, Senate probe finds

Financial Times: Carmakers didn't immediately take action after hearing of forced labour.

US lab-grown meat bans criticised as culture war ‘own goal’

Financial Times: Australian start-up warns America is ceding a competitive advantage.

Boeing supplier laying off staff after production of troubled 737s slows

The key Boeing supplier makes the fuselages for its popular 737 Max aircraft.

PM blames Labour for recession, says they should spend a ‘generation’ out of power

It comes on the same day as New Zealand enters a recession.

Zombie car factories on the rise in China as buyers opt for EVs

Financial Times: ICE plants increasingly mothballed as foreign groups lose market share.

Billionaire Graeme Hart's US companies make $15b revenue

How did two American businesses owned by NZ's wealthiest man perform in 2023?

Nexus of nefarious influences hurting NZ manufacturing

Pressures from inflation, high interest rates made year tough for $31 billion sector.

What will it take to fix Fletcher Building?

'All they did was inject another level of risk ... the CEO is not the problem here.'

Why convention centre cost Fletcher Building chief Ross Taylor his job

'Diabolical' - fire, Covid, rising steel prices, mould, replacing steel, new contractors.

Fletcher Building shares plunge as it makes $120m loss, CEO and chair resign

Dividend cut: Million-plus KiwiSaver investors indirectly affected.

‘Issues keep arising’: Calls for Fletcher Building board shake-up

'Fletcher has done considerably worse than the average company on the stock exchange.'

Who's to blame for Perth's exploding water pipes?

New findings could be out in a few weeks.