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BusinessNZ Congratulates Labour For Backing India Deal
Thursday, 23 April 2026, 11:55 am | Business NZ
BusinessNZ Chief Executive Katherine Rich says trade has long been a strength of New Zealand’s economic policy, and bipartisan support has underpinned our success. More >>
Watkins Joins BusinessNZ As Director Of Communications
Thursday, 16 April 2026, 11:52 am | Business NZ
Watkins joins BusinessNZ from Stuff Group, where she has been the Editor of The Post since 2023 and Editor of The Sunday Star-Times since 2019. More >>
Back The India Deal: Business Leaders Call For Cross-Party Support
Monday, 13 April 2026, 7:02 am | Business NZ
BusinessNZ Chief Executive Katherine Rich says trade has long been a strength of New Zealand’s economic policy, and bipartisan support has underpinned our success. More >>
Oil Slick: NZ's Economy Still Grows Amid Turbulent Times
Thursday, 19 March 2026, 11:54 am | Business NZ
Chief Economist John Pask says even as we navigate stormy seas internationally, there are reasons to remain optimistic at home. More >>
Employment Bill Brings Long-Sought Clarity At Last
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 3:42 pm | Business NZ
Employment Relations Policy Manager Paul MacKay says the shift to an hours-based accrual system for both annual and sick leave is the most significant change in leave legislation since the introduction of paid holidays in the 1940s. More >>
Improving Transparency In NZ's Energy Transition
Tuesday, 20 January 2026, 3:17 pm | Business NZ
Beard says BEC acknowledges the Powering Change team, which is made up of organisations from across the energy system, for their collaborative effort in strengthening understanding of New Zealand’s energy outlook. More >>
"Transformational Reform" To Resource Management Arrives
Tuesday, 9 December 2025, 2:23 pm | Business NZ
Chief Executive Katherine Rich says the next step will be securing broad support for the changes, which will streamline the approach to resource management. More >>
Uni Strategy: Renewed Focus Gets An ‘A’
Tuesday, 2 September 2025, 12:35 pm | Business NZ
Education, Skills and Immigration Director Rachel Simpson says BusinessNZ supports the introduction of a new tertiary education strategy that places economic growth at the centre of higher education policy. More >>
Saying ‘Yes’ To Investment And Growth
Thursday, 23 January 2025, 3:59 pm | Business NZ
BusinessNZ Chief Executive Katherine Rich says businesses around the country would agree that NZ for too long has been saying ‘no’ to investment and development. More >>
BEC Welcomes Hydrogen Plan For Clean Fuel Economy
Monday, 16 December 2024, 10:34 am | Business NZ
The BusinessNZ Energy Council (BEC) welcomes the Government's release of a low-emission hydrogen plan. Executive Director Tina Schirr says the plan highlights the transformative potential of clean hydrogen within our wider energy system. "Hydrogen is known ... More >>
Clearing The Personal Grievance Pipeline
Wednesday, 4 December 2024, 2:37 pm | Business NZ
Chief Executive Katherine Rich says the BusinessNZ Network has been advocating for a fairer and simplified personal grievance process for years. More >>
Calculating Gender Pay Gap
Monday, 25 November 2024, 11:08 pm | Business NZ
Chief Executive Katherine Rich says the reported pay gap has halved over the last 25 years, down from 16 percent in 1998 to 8 percent in 2024. More >>
Cross-Party Consensus Congratulated
Friday, 15 November 2024, 2:50 pm | Business NZ
BusinessNZ Chief Executive Katherine Rich said major, enduring infrastructure assets needed to be built on the basis of consensus across parties, and the fact that the updated PPP framework had the endorsement of three major parties represented in Parliament ... More >>
NZ-UAE Trade Agreement Welcomed By Export Sector
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 12:22 pm | Business NZ
"The deal will also open up new opportunities in both in the UAE and further into the Middle East, as the UAE acts as an important hub in the region for travel, imports and exports, and business," Josh Tan said. More >>
Consensus Approach Welcomed
Wednesday, 28 August 2024, 1:58 pm | Business NZ
BusinessNZ Advocacy Director Catherine Beard says the Minister’s address to the infrastructure community today reflected the strong desire by business for more bipartisanship in infrastructure. More >>
NZ Economy: Slow Grind
Wednesday, 26 June 2024, 12:17 pm | Business NZ
BusinessNZ Director of Advocacy Catherine Beard says that forecasting out to 2026 shows things may initially get worse before improving slowly. More >>
BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope Resignation
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 10:01 am | Business NZ
BusinessNZ Chief Executive Kirk Hope today announced he has resigned from his role and will finish with BusinessNZ on 6 September 2024. More >>
NZ-UAE Free Trade On The Table
Tuesday, 7 May 2024, 11:30 am | Business NZ
ExportNZ supports free trade negotiations between New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). More >>
Better Earthquake Risk Management
Friday, 19 April 2024, 3:40 pm | Business NZ
BusinessNZ has welcomed the announcement of an early review and extension to deadlines on owners of buildings deemed earthquake-prone. More >>
Moderation Welcomed
Thursday, 1 February 2024, 3:36 pm | Business NZ
BusinessNZ has welcomed the moderate approach to setting the latest rise in the minimum wage. The Government has signalled a two percent rise in the minimum wage rate, given headwinds currently facing the NZ economy. BusinessNZ Chief Executive ... More >>
