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May 22, 2012
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Auckland usually holds its own in global lifestyle surveys, but according to fDi magazine, New Zealand’s biggest city also scores well when it comes to business. The foreign direct investment magazine, owned by The Financial Times Ltd, rated Auckland sixth for business friendliness and seventh overall (up from 10th place in the last fDi rankings).
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While a crowded market of daily deal sites snatch frantically for a piece of the pie – with some, like Cudo, apparently running on borrowed
time – a new player is looking to cook its own goodies. GrabOne may have the lion’s share, but the reborn Flossie.com offers a new take on the “grab-fest mentality”.
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There’s plenty of bioenergy potential in the Bay of Plenty – billions of dollars worth, in fact. The area is expected to bring in more than $4 billion in energy-related developments, according to its energy strategy report released yesterday. The
region is a net importer of electricity. The report says, however, that
achieving self-sufficiency will provide greater security and value.
Renewable energy will also be increasingly important as a selling point
to support access to international markets.
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UFB is supposed to usher in a new age of better
business – but almost half of SMEs say the cost of rewiring their
premises is a barrier to upgrading to faster broadband. Rewiring costs and the need to upgrade IT equipment were concerns for
68 and 73 percent of businesses surveyed by the Commerce Commission, while 60 percent were worried
about exceeding data caps through increased usage and 80 percent about
increases in ongoing monthly costs.
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Great brands can be tarnished by poor quality products and poor after sales support. Get the basics right and you are well on your way to having happy customers, says Paul Allen.
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‘Stay the night. Steal the art’. That’s the slogan employed by one of
the Art Series Hotels in Melbourne, where guests are encouraged to
attempt to steal a hidden piece of artwork. Clues to the location
of one of the ‘no ball games’ works by graffiti artist Bansky are being
posted on Facebook and Twitter through January 15 and anyone who
successfully steals it is allowed to keep it; if they get caught then
they have to return it.
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The ‘merger’ is a public show of a marriage of equals, but usually it’s no such thing. The Business Roundtable and New Zealand Institute are both run and largely funded by businesses and business leaders. However, as Mike Booker points out, they have almost polar opposite views on what ails the economy and how those ailments should be remedied.
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Climate change and economics don’t always see eye-to-eye. According to Dr Martin L. Weitzman,
a professor of economics at Harvard University, the action needed to
mitigate the effects of environmental change come up against huge monetary hurdles. So why is the application of cost benefit analysis to climate change so difficult?
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