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OCR – Irrelevant to inflation?
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 12:27 am | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) is questioning the relevance of the Official Cash Rate (OCR). With the factors driving inflation beyond the control of the Reserve Bank and interest rates set to remain high regardless ... More >>
Power crisis? What power crisis?
Friday, 18 July 2008, 2:19 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) urge the Government to learn the lessons of yet another power crisis. Continued erosion of reserve margins mean we run too close to generation capacity and are unable to cope with normal weather ... More >>
Price Stability – what price stability?
Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 1:09 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) are calling for greater emphasis on the price stability of interest and exchange rates. In a DHL survey, a quarter of exporters indicated that they would move at least part of their business ... More >>
Government rethink on interest rate policy
Thursday, 3 July 2008, 2:42 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) supports the move by the Government to change the way the Reserve Bank deals with inflation but stresses the need for action. Trevor Mallard announced in parliament that, “The Government ... More >>
Situation tenuous as confidence drops
Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 11:09 am | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The latest New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) Survey of Business Conditions completed during June 2008, shows total sales in May 2008 decreased 3.71% (export sales increased by 8.13% with domestic sales decreasing 15.3%) on May ... More >>
Account deficit illustrates exporters pain
Friday, 27 June 2008, 2:09 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) says the current account deficit of $2.16 billion for the March quarter demonstrates the damage monetary policy has done to New Zealand’s tradeable sector. More >>
Electricity Crisis – more to be done
Friday, 13 June 2008, 4:05 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), is proposing that a range of measures be introduced to ensure that all users - domestic, commercial and industrial - can respond more equally to electricity shortages. More >>
Electricity Crisis – A better demand side response
Thursday, 12 June 2008, 11:10 am | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), is calling for a more strategic response to the issues we all face with the electricity system involving a clearly defined and programmed response to the domestic use of electricity to ensure ... More >>
Two Sides to the Story
Monday, 9 June 2008, 2:33 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The latest New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) Survey of Business Conditions completed during May 2008, shows total sales in April 2008 increased 27% (export sales increased by 56% with domestic sales increasing 10%) on April 2007. More >>
Broad Based Union Must Deliver Export Solutions.
Friday, 30 May 2008, 2:41 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), is calling on the new alliance between Business NZ and Export NZ to provide a clear message for the Government as to the pressure that exporters are under, and the policy changes necessary ... More >>
R&D gains a long term win?
Wednesday, 28 May 2008, 1:40 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), has welcomed Navico’s decision to base its Research and Development (R&D) in Auckland, saying that the move is a positive step for manufacturing in this country and underpins the importance ... More >>
More picking winners instead of rewarding winning
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 4:48 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The 2008 Budget has delivered very little towards lifting industrial performance says the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA). More >>
Stop picking winners, support ‘winning behaviour'
Friday, 9 May 2008, 2:42 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), is calling on the Government to scrap is policy of ‘picking winners’ and support ‘winning behaviour’ in the wake of the decision to cut funding to the Screen Council. More >>
NZMEA Backs Call to Reduce GST on Food
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 3:29 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), says that with world food prices increasing, it would support the removal of the GST on key food items as a focused and sensible alternative to personal tax cuts. More >>
The straw that breaks the camel’s back.
Monday, 21 April 2008, 4:01 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), says that the debate over the particular reasons as to why companies such as Fisher and Paykel are moving production and jobs out of New Zealand is a “side show”. More >>
Another manufacturing exporter icon bites the dust
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 4:11 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), says that the closure of Fisher and Paykel’s Dunedin factory is yet another manifestation of failing policy framework. Particularly an interest based monetary policy that has seen speculation, ... More >>
Again we ask, ‘will we keep the lights on?’
Tuesday, 15 April 2008, 1:50 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association, (MEA), says that the renewed possibility of power shortages this winter shows that the New Zealand electricity “system” is not delivering the required reserve margin and is calling on the ... More >>
We are all together now
Sunday, 13 April 2008, 3:01 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), says that comments from the Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce (CECC) on Radio New Zealand on Thursday that businesses are “under siege” shows that there are fundamental problems ... More >>
China FTA – Mutual Recognition Agreement key
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 3:06 pm | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) says that New Zealand looks to be in a better position having signed the FTA with China, but just how much better off remains to be seen. More >>
China FTA – levelling the standards playing field
Tuesday, 8 April 2008, 12:45 am | Manufacturers and Exporters Association
The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA), says that the benefits from the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with China can only be determined once the full agreement is examined. More >>
