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Manufacturers are feeling more confident even as sales fell further during January, the New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association’s latest survey of business conditions shows.
Total sales among the survey sample fell 3 percent, with export sales down 32 percent and domestic sales up 15 percent on a year earlier.
Net confidence rose to 45, from minus [...]

Manufacturing sales volumes rose a seasonally adjusted 3.1 per cent in the December quarter, led by meat and dairy and other food-related industries.
The rise in manufacturing volumes was off a nine-year low in the September quarter, with volume increases recorded in 11 of the 15 industries surveyed, Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) said today.
The rise in [...]

Air New Zealand today announced normalised earnings* before taxation of $96 million for the six month period ended 31 December 2009, an increase of $70 million on the same period last year.
The Board has declared a fully imputed interim dividend of three cents per share.
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Normalised earnings* before taxation of $96 million, up $70 million
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AS THE airline industry begins to pick up strength after a prolonged travel slump, carriers are spending millions on new cabin products and services as they compete for returning customers.
Singapore Airlines on Tuesday launched its retrofitted Boeing 777-200 aircraft, with leather lie-flat seats in business class, and bigger personal entertainment screens in both premium and [...]

Understanding customers needs and creating solutions is the main focus of Aviation New Zealand, says its CEO, John Nicholson. He speaks to Charles Alcock, editor at Aviation News International, CNBC’s Martin Soong and Amanda Drury.

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One of America’s leading universities, New York University (NYU), will utilise Kiwi MoleMap technology to advance skin cancer research and help find new ways to detect melanoma earlier.
The Charles C. Harris Skin and Cancer Unit, a teaching hospital at NYU’s Langone Medical Center will now have access to 1000’s of Kiwi and Australian melanoma case [...]

NEW Zealand wants to forge closer links with Asian players to grow its aviation industry.
‘The industry in New Zealand is growing. We may have been bit players in some markets, but now we want to be more substantive,’ John Nicholson, chief executive of industry association Aviation New Zealand, told The Business Times at the Singapore [...]

(WELLINGTON) Air New Zealand yesterday said it will set a new benchmark for longhaul flights by offering beds in economy class, but they come with a catch - passengers need to buy three seats to enjoy lie-down travel.
The airline’s ‘Skycouch’ will use three economy seats, folded flat to the seat-back in front, creating a space [...]

A Wellington IT company is focused on the healthcare and insurance sectors in the United States for future growth.
Business intelligence software firm Futrix provides web-based software that provides companies with simple and fast access to the information they hold.
Asia Pacific head Anthony Bishop says the recession has helped in some ways, as its software can [...]

Few manufacturers worldwide can offer the same technology as Palmerston North’s Mouldem, reports Jimmy Ellingham.
Just like a number of Manawatu manufacturing businesses, Mouldem largely slips under the radar locally while excelling overseas.
The firm provides graphics in specially developed ink which are applied to plastic products as they are manufactured, using a rotational moulding technique – such [...]