Bunnings' 'unruly tourist travelling hat' is TradeMe's most viewed auction of the year

By RNZ A hat that looks like one associated with a group of rowdy tourists is TradeMe's most viewed auction of 2019. The hat joined a phallic-shaped kūmara and the cockpit from a private jet at the top of the e-commerce... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 30th, 2019|Business|0 Comments

Arrow International liquidators receive $46m of claims

The liquidators of Arrow International are working through almost 500 claims from unsecured parties who say they're owed about $46 million from the failed building company.BDO's Andrew Bethell, Andrew McKay and Colin Gower said... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 30th, 2019|Business|0 Comments

Transpower to upgrade North/South link

Transpower will undertake a lengthy programme of work on the High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) link, which allows power to be transmitted between the North and South Islands, to improve the resilience and security of the national... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 29th, 2019|Business|0 Comments

Leading questions: Scott Pritchard on $500m of development and being a milk boy

Scott Pritchard is chief executive of Precinct Properties, now finishing its $1 billion 40-level Commercial Bay project tower on Auckland's waterfront. He reflects on 2019 and looks forward to 2020. Q: How would you describe 2019... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 29th, 2019|Business|0 Comments

Leading questions: What Hawaiian Airline's NZ boss Russell Williss wants to see banned

Hawaiian Airlines has been flying from Honolulu to Auckland since 2013. Russell (Rusty) Williss is the NZ country manager. Q: What was your first job? A: A paper boy working on Marion Rd Adelaide in peak hour, selling the "Adelaide... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 29th, 2019|Business|0 Comments

Flying cars, hyperloops and the other tech predictions that didn't pan out

Predicting the future is hard, even for the people with the most power to influence it. In 2013, Jeff Bezos said he expected Amazon.com Inc. would be delivering packages by drone in four to five years. Here we are seven years later,... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 29th, 2019|Business|0 Comments

Scammers promising 'free' Samsungs on fake NZ Herald site

Scammers hoping to trick people into a $115-a-month subscription service - or drain their accounts - have created fake NZ Herald websites promising free Samsung phones.The clone sites, believed to be Russian, have just one article... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 29th, 2019|Business|0 Comments

Small Canadian airline Harbour Air on the forefront of electric-powered flight

Running alongside Boeing, Nasa and Uber in the race to launch electric planes is a small Canadian airline that has installed an electric motor on a 63-year-old seaplane.This month, Harbour Air's modified de Havilland Beaver made... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 28th, 2019|Business|0 Comments

Donald Trump's stock market rally is very good, but still lags Obama and Clinton

US stocks are closing out a terrific year and President Donald Trump loves it. He's bragged about the stock market hitting record highs six times this week alone on Twitter.On Friday, be boasted "Trump stock market rally is far... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 28th, 2019|Business|0 Comments

20 ways our homes will change in the next 20 years

If someone had told us 20 years ago that our entire lives would have been conducted through something called "apps" on our "smart phones", that the entire world's knowledge could be "googled", we'd have snorted "yea, and what about... Source: NZ Herald Business News

By | December 27th, 2019|Business|0 Comments