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Allianz Global Assistance drives NZ growth - CTI acquisition
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 1:44 pm | Joint Press Release
Allianz Global Assistance, international leader in travel insurance and medical assistance, announced today that it has acquired New Zealand travel insurance specialist, Comprehensive Travel Insurance 2004 Limited (CTI). More >>
Design Options for ChristChurch Cathedral
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 10:16 am | Joint Press Release
Design options for ChristChurch Cathedral have been released by the Anglican Diocese of Christchurch and the Church Property Trustees for public feedback. As part of its commitment to build a cathedral on the same site in the Square, the Diocese and ... More >>
Hirepool and Hirequip Merger Moves One Step Closer
Wednesday, 3 April 2013, 2:21 pm | Joint Press Release
The merger of the Hirepool and Hirequip businesses has moved one step closer. Following the Commerce Commission approval in late February, the parties involved have signed a Sales and Purchase Agreement and the transaction is expected to be finalised within ... More >>
Historic Waipa River agreement signed at Te Kuiti Pa
Wednesday, 3 April 2013, 1:08 pm | Joint Press Release
A historic Waipa River joint management agreement between the Maniapoto Māori Trust Board (MMTB) and five local councils has been signed at Te Kuiti Pa today (Wednesday 3 April). More >>
Intense Mystical Feeling: Album release
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 1:42 pm | Joint Press Release
Intense Mystical Feeling (IMF) is the music collaboration of artists Lucy McMillan and Tahi Moore. In 2005 early recordings began around the clutter of paintings and sculptures in a shared artists’ studio in downtown Auckland; these were quickly ... More >>
Credit Union Insurance Limited Gains Full Insurance License
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 12:05 pm | Joint Press Release
2 April 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Credit Union Insurance Limited Gains Full Insurance License Credit Union Insurance Limited, the insurance business owned by the New Zealand Association of Credit Unions (NZACU), is pleased to announce it has just been issued ... More >>
US: "April Days" to Protest Drone Killing and Surveillance
Tuesday, 2 April 2013, 10:33 am | Joint Press Release
A nationwide, month-long campaign of counter-drone teach-ins, rallies and protest, called "April Days of Action" by its organizers, will challenge the escalated use of drones for targeted assassination by the Obama Administration as well as domestic ... More >>
Orion Health and Caradigm Expand Partnership
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 3:15 pm | Joint Press Release
Caradigm, a Microsoft and GE Healthcare company, and Orion Health, a global leader in eHealth technology and interoperability, today announced they have expanded their alliance agreement to integrate Orion Health’s market-leading Electronic Health ... More >>
House of Travel Appoints PR Firm Impact PR
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 1:33 pm | Joint Press Release
House of Travel has named Auckland firm Impact PR as its choice of public relations counsel. John Moffatt the sales and marketing manager for House of Travel says appointing the boutique PR company to assist New Zealand's largest New Zealand owned travel ... More >>
People now need to get on board the Capital Connection
Thursday, 28 March 2013, 1:21 pm | Joint Press Release
The continuation of the Capital Connection train service, announced today, is a great result but it’s imperative that more people literally get on board, says Fran Wilde, Chair of Wellington Regional Council. More >>
Defibrillators in golf courses
Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 10:19 am | Joint Press Release
Defibrillators in golf courses Wellington Free Ambulance and the Porirua Sundown Rotary club are placing three defibrillators in golf courses in the area. The Rotary club has bought the three automatic external defibrillators through Wellington Free ... More >>
Kaitiaki ‘The Keeper’ Lives On Post-2013 Festival of Flowers
Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 3:11 pm | Joint Press Release
After the huge success of ‘Kaitaiki – The Keeper’ during the 2013 Festival of Flowers, the creators of the installation, artist Darryn George (Nga Puhi) and landscape architect Craig Pocock (Pocock Design Environment) have agreed that this ... More >>
NZ solar companies bring fresh water to the Pacific
Monday, 25 March 2013, 1:55 pm | Joint Press Release
Kiwi companies Solarcity New Zealand Ltd (SolarCity) and Panasonic New Zealand Ltd (Panasonic NZ) have won a competitive tender to supply a 131kWp (Kilowatt Peak) solar system to power a new desalination plant on the Pacific island of Nauru. More >>
World Bank must end support for Honduran palm oil company
Thursday, 21 March 2013, 12:11 pm | Joint Press Release
International NGOs have condemned a statement by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) which defends the record of a Honduran palm oil company, Grupo Dinant, which is implicated in dozens of murders as well as other human rights ... More >>
New tertiary science qualification launched
Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 9:46 am | Joint Press Release
A collaboration between a West Coast polytechnic, high school and an international company has resulted in a new tertiary science programme being developed with potential for it to be delivered nationwide. More >>
Building momentum
Friday, 15 March 2013, 10:40 am | Joint Press Release
Media release 15 March 2013 Building momentum New Zealand’s manufacturing sector continued to show upwards momentum since the start of 2013, according to the latest BNZ - BusinessNZ Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI). The seasonally adjusted ... More >>
Giant Eel Comes to Parliament
Friday, 15 March 2013, 10:18 am | Joint Press Release
WELLNGTON, NEW ZEALAND. On Tuesday 19 at 12.30 pm a nearly 200 metre longfin eel made of recycled cloth constructed by thousands of people within and beyond New Zealand will be carried to Parliament to deliver the 5000 plus signature Lifeline for Longfins ... More >>
New healthy kai policy at Polyfest Māori village
Wednesday, 13 March 2013, 9:57 am | Joint Press Release
Attendees at this year’s ASB Polyfest are in for a deliciously healthy time with a new kai policy and boosted health activities and information on hand. Leading the health charge is Te Runanga o Ngāti Whātua alongside Raukura Hauora o Tainui, Huakina ... More >>
New Zealand National Burn Centre goes digital
Monday, 11 March 2013, 3:48 pm | Joint Press Release
New digital televisions help patients at National Burn Centre (NBC) fight boredom, and help distract those in chronic pain. The new sets have found a home in the state-of-the-art facility, located at Middlemore Hospital, just in time for the digital switchover. More >>
Aaradhna to Open for Paul Simon
Monday, 11 March 2013, 12:29 pm | Joint Press Release
Coast and Chugg Entertainment in association with Bolton Promotions are pleased to announce the addition of stunning NZ singer-songwriter AARADHNA to Dunedin's PAUL SIMON concert next month. Straight off the back of the nationwide More FM Summer ... More >>
