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May 22, 2012
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Kiwi exporters are positive about the year ahead, and believe the Rugby World Cup is set
to give a much-needed boost to the industry even after the event wraps up and the crowds leave. While exchange rates, fuel prices and the Christchurch disasters topped the
list of factors that negatively affected exporters in the past 12
months, the 2011 latest DHL New Zealand
Export Barometer found nearly three-quarters of respondents were expecting orders to increase in the coming year, particularly those with Asian markets.
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Dairy giant Fonterra is extending its footprint in the global
pharmaceutical market with the acquisition of an Indian-based
manufacturer. As part of a 50/50 venture with Dutch
dairy company Royal FrieslandCampina, DMV-Fonterra Excipients (DFE)is to
buy Brahmar Cellulose Private Limited, which makes ingredients used by
the
pharmaceutical industry to create tablets and pills.
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“Can you compete in the international market?” It’s a tough question for some, but one that needs to be asked. A week from now, the Rutherford Innovation Showcase kicks off with the Canterbury Software Summit, packed with a lineup of prominent speakers from Google, Z Energy, VoucherMob, Serato, Sidhe,
Connect2Field, Commonwealth Bank, Unlimited Realities, Movac, and
GreenButton. Beginning with keynote speaker Dr Craig Nevill-Manning, Google’s
engineering director, the issue of the day at the summit will be going
global – the right way.
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A team of Massey University engineering students
is building software for New Zealand’s first spacecraft, which could
pave the way for a new generation
of satellites monitoring climate change by measuring polar ice
thickness and other environmental data. The basketball-sized micro-satellite, known as KiwiSAT, is being designed and built by a team of volunteers, who have been awarded a $7,500 grant to further develop the software. It will be launched from a
Russian rocket when the project is finished.
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Greentree International, maker of business software for medium-size
organisations, is offering Kiwi businesses a chance to win the “ultimate
business painkiller and multivitamin” in the form of a $250,000 prize package including software, implementation and cloud hosting services. Between now and October 31, companies are invited to enter Game On by explaining why they deserve the prize and what they’d do with it.
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