Businesses are optimistic about the future for the first time since Covid-19 emerged.
Category: New Zealand
New Zealand exporters are exposing themselves to a range of risks if they focus too much on China at the expense of other export markets, an economist says.
Despite a return to level one with some workers returning to central Auckland, small businesses are expecting fewer people in the city as some utilise their new arrangements and keep working from home.
A forestry company that failed to assess risks on a wood block that resulted in the death of a worker has been fined.
Government wage subsidies have helped The Warehouse to make a solid profit, albeit well down on last year.