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Atlantic Fellows For Social Equity Welcomes 2022 Cohort
Friday, 12 November 2021, 3:30 pm | Joint Press Release
21 Fellows from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand with a background in Indigenous social change have been selected for the 2022 Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity (AFSE) program, based at the University of Melbourne in partnership with the University ... More >>
Majority Vote To Close Leaching Levin Landfill – A Win For The Environment
Thursday, 11 November 2021, 3:37 pm | Joint Press Release
Community groups calling for local action to close the notorious leaching Levin Landfill at Hōkio Beach are ‘encouraged and excited’ by last night’s Horowhenua District Council 7-4 vote in favour of closing the notorious landfill in May-June ... More >>
NMIT And Kāinga Ora – Homes And Communities Partner To Build Homes And Career Opportunities
Thursday, 11 November 2021, 8:43 am | Joint Press Release
Aspiring carpenters in Nelson and Marlborough will gain real-world building experience while providing much-needed homes for families in need of social housing. A new partnership between Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology Limited (NMIT) and Kāinga Ora ... More >>
New Zealand’s Biggest Retail Brands Get Set For Singles’ Day
Tuesday, 9 November 2021, 11:33 am | Joint Press Release
The Warehouse, Noel Leeming, TheMarket.com and Warehouse Stationery are getting behind Singles’ Day for 2021 with a range of offers to help Kiwis get a jumpstart on their Christmas shopping. Singles’ Day, also known as Double 11, takes place ... More >>
Big Drive To Grow Skills Across The Food And Fibre Sector
Monday, 8 November 2021, 11:58 am | Joint Press Release
A new partnership between Ford Ranger New Zealand Rural Games and Farm 4 Life Hub will allow participants in the third annual Allflex Clash of the Colleges to practise their skills before they take the field to compete against secondary students from ... More >>
Online Retailer ShopGood Partners With Cure Kids To Allow Kiwi Consumers To Give Back While Christmas Shopping
Monday, 8 November 2021, 9:58 am | Joint Press Release
New Zealand charity Cure Kids has today launched an exclusive partnership with online shopping platform ShopGood, allowing Kiwis to give back while they shop for Christmas. ShopGood is a high-quality online retailer that promotes generosity with every purchase ... More >>
The Warehouse Group And Westpac NZ Sign $70m Sustainability-Linked Loan With Broad Innovative Sustainability Targets
Monday, 8 November 2021, 9:44 am | Joint Press Release
The Warehouse Group will have to meet five sustainability performance goals including sustainable packaging, carbon emissions and gender targets to receive discounted rates, under a trailblazing Sustainability-Linked Loan agreed with Westpac NZ. The ... More >>
End Of The Line In Sight For Auckland’s Diesel Commuter Trains
Friday, 5 November 2021, 2:02 pm | Joint Press Release
KiwiRail and Auckland Transport (AT) are suspending the passenger train service that connects Papakura and Pukekohe from September 2022 until the second half of 2024, to allow for the work needed to extend the electric train service to Pukekohe. ... More >>
BNZ And Zeald Partner To Boost Business With Digital Clusters
Friday, 5 November 2021, 8:57 am | Joint Press Release
Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) and Zeald are partnering to launch the Digital Cluster Initiative where groups of businesses will come together to transform their digital operations, grow their businesses and strengthen SME performance in the regions. ... More >>
2021 CFO Sustainability Snapshot Survey Results
Thursday, 4 November 2021, 8:46 am | Joint Press Release
Deloitte, the Sustainable Business Council and Toitū Tahua: Centre for Sustainable Finance have today released the findings of the 2021 CFO Sustainability Snapshot Survey, finding that two-thirds of CFOs are on the journey of their organisation’s ... More >>
Marsden Fund Supports Innovative Research In Aotearoa
Wednesday, 3 November 2021, 9:09 am | Joint Press Release
Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund, has allocated $82.345 million (excluding GST) to 120 research projects led by researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand. These grants support excellent research in the humanities, science, social sciences, mātauranga, ... More >>
REINZ & Tony Alexander Real Estate Survey: Market In A Holding Pattern
Tuesday, 2 November 2021, 11:12 am | Joint Press Release
For the majority of the indicators we gather in each month’s survey, there has been little change from last month. The market is in something of a holding pattern with fewer people attending open homes and auctions, investors continuing to back ... More >>
Laybuy Partners With Super Rugby’s Newest Team Moana Pasifika
Monday, 1 November 2021, 11:55 am | Joint Press Release
Family at the heart of rugby’s newest sponsorship deal New Zealand BNPL provider Laybuy joins forces with Super Rugby Pacific team Moana Pasifika as inaugural sponsor and exclusive BNPL provider. Sponsorship deal will make it easier for fans to afford ... More >>
ASB And Hawke’s Bay Airport Partner On Multi-million Dollar Sustainability-linked Loan
Monday, 1 November 2021, 11:46 am | Joint Press Release
Hawke’s Bay Airport has taken an important step in its goal to become New Zealand’s most sustainable airport, this week securing tens of millions in sustainability linked funding from ASB. The regional airport’s $23 million sustainability linked loan ... More >>
Tower Insurance And Business Link Pacific Enter New Partnership
Friday, 29 October 2021, 8:33 am | Joint Press Release
Tower Insurance and Business Link Pacific (BLP) have today announced a new partnership focusing on lifting insurance awareness, understanding and penetration across the South Pacific region. Tower’s Managing Director – Pacific, Paula ter Brake, says ... More >>
Lions International Raise $500,000 To Fund A Rehabilitative Playscape For New Wellington Regional Children’s Hospital.
Thursday, 28 October 2021, 3:18 pm | Joint Press Release
Wellington Hospitals Foundation has been working alongside Lions Clubs International throughout our region and is thrilled to announce that Lions Clubs members have raised an extraordinary $500,000, to fund the new Wellington Regional Children’s Hospital ... More >>
COVID-19 Home Isolation - Update
Thursday, 28 October 2021, 10:27 am | Joint Press Release
Today 288 COVID-19 cases are isolating at households across Auckland, as part of the next step in the region’s COVID-19 community management. “As Auckland transitions from an elimination approach to COVID-19 to a suppression strategy, it is important ... More >>
Aera VC’s Derek Handley & Outset Ventures’ Imche Fourie Host NZ Climate Tech Sector Panel: 28 Oct
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 3:26 pm | Joint Press Release
In the race to decarbonise emissions, we need more New Zealand entrepreneurs, “ Building a climate tech venture to save the world ,” and this is the topic of an online panel discussion tomorrow (October 28, 5pm), hosted by two investors backing ... More >>
NZ Ongoing Climate And Health Failure Ahead Of COP26 - Letter To The PM
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 10:30 am | Joint Press Release
NZ ongoing climate and health failure ahead of COP26 Seven health professional organisations (OraTaiao; NZ Medical Association; NZ Nurses Organisation; and the Colleges for Emergency Medicine, of Nurses, Physicians, and Anaesthesists) have written a joint letter to ... More >>
Working Together To Increase Forestry Value And Create New Jobs
Wednesday, 27 October 2021, 9:45 am | Joint Press Release
Tupu Angitu Ltd, the commercial arm of the Lake Taupō Forest Trust, and NZ Bio Forestry Ltd have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding that they hope will increase the value of the forestry estate and create new regional jobs. And they ... More >>
