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May 22, 2012
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New Zealand businesses have proved they can hold their own internationally, with 37 Kiwi firms making the cut in the annual Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific index. The
index, announced in Hong Kong today, ranks the region’s fastest growing
tech businesses according to their revenue growth over the past three
years. Leading the Kiwi contingent was online electricity
retailer Powershop followed by mobile network 2degrees, which achieved the two highest
rankings for Kiwi companies in the Fast 500’s 10-year history.
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Fletcher
Building and Michael Hill International have been identified as having
the best and the worst websites respectively in regard to communication
with investors. The fifth annual Best Investor Website
Awards (BIWA) show that of the NZX50 companies, Fletcher Building did best at communicating with shareholders, scoring
86 out of a possible 100 ahead of second placed Goodman
Fielder (84) and Auckland International Airport (83).
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Graham Carter, a Kiwi-born
entrepreneur, has spent the last 10 years in North America – turning good
ideas into commercial businesses and founding three successful companies along
the way. But now he’s back in the country as the CEO of carboNZero.
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Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, chief science adviser to the Prime
Minister, is a staunch champion of science as a pillar of economic
development and innovation. And turning Auckland into a major
Asia-Pacific innovation hub will be at the top of the agenda when he speaks in
Auckland next week.
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What will supermarkets of the future look like? Unitec product design student Amie Holman has drawn on her own
experience as a supermarket checkout supervisor to design an app she
hopes might one day become a grocery shopper’s most valued companion.
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The path of freelance journalism is a rocky one –
when you’re covering an event overseas, the fee for your work sometimes
doesn’t even meet the cost of getting to the story. Prizewinning
journalist Jon Stephenson is returning to Afghanistan before Christmas
to tackle a number of stories, and to that end, that a group of fellow journalists and broadcasters have banded together to organise a fundraiser, Gone By Xmas, MC-ed by blogger and media personality Russell Brown.
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Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty and chaos while others crash and burn? Great by Choice by Jim Collins (the author of Good to Great) with Morten Hansen is the culmination of nine years of research. Studying
businesses that rose to greatness – including Microsoft, Apple and
Intel – compared to others that failed in similar conditions, the
authors have reached a few surprising conclusions – and we have five copies of the book to give away.
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