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Foodstuffs' grocers vote to merge its two co-ops
A proposal by the country's biggest supermarket operator Foodstuffs to merge its North and South Island divisions has been supported by the grocery store owners, who are the co-ops' shareholders.
Homeowners try new tactics for relief from soaring repayments
More are seeking homestay students or flatmates to cope with the rising cost of living coupled with high mortgage rates.
Evening business for 4 June 2024
News from the business sector, including a market report. Audio
Taking on boarders to help mortgage payments
More and more Auckland homeowners are seeking homestay students or flatmates to cope with the rising cost of living coupled with high mortgage rates. Lucy Xia reports. Audio
Concerns about $2 billion subsidy for Tiwai
Analysis - Certainty for Southland, the energy market and successive governments is valuable, but the smelter may have found a way to earn millions in subsidies.
Watch: Willis speaks to business leaders after Budget
Finance Minister Nicola Willis says the government's not planning an "aggressive fiscal consolidation" and is taking a deliberately predictable approach in the medium term.
Spoken Feature: Thrift
How to save 15 hundred bucks a year. Katy Gosset meets an anti-food-waste campaigner and finds out how Kiwi households can stop chucking good food in the landfill. Audio
Business commentator Victoria Young
Hawke's Bay fast-food software company Fingermark has a new investor. US-listed giant Ecolab is taking a more than 9% stake, putting a nine-figure valuation on the tech firm. Victoria backgrounds what… Audio
Morning Report Essentials for Tuesday 4 June
On today's episode, we hear from the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon after the Finance Minister says the Government will keep its promise to fund more cancer treatments, Police estimate the cost of… Audio
Theresa Gattung recognised in King's Birthday Honours list
Theresa Gattung, the former chief executive of Telecom and current patron of My Food Bag, is one of the country's new Dame Companions. Dame Theresa spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss. Audio
Nunchucks, poles, knives: NP businesses speak out on inner-city crime
More than 30 people have been trespassed from a pedestrianised space in New Plymouth's CBD that has become notorious for trouble.
Housing market stalls around country as Wellington prices dip
The property market remains stalled with more houses for sale and asking prices still lower than a year ago. The average asking price on realestate.co.nz fell 0.8 percent to $859,301...
Early Business News for 4 June 2024
Latest news from Radio New Zealand's business team. Audio
Fighting Food Waste
Why are Kiwi households throwing away 130,000 tonnes of food each year ? Supermarkets rotate stock - why can't we? Kaitlin Dawson of NZ Food Waste Champions reveals the contents of her fridge and… Audio
More than half of Synlait Milk's suppliers want to quit
Embattled dairy company Synlait Milk has confirmed that more than half of its suppliers want to quit, its earnings outlook has been downgraded, and it's scrapped the sale of an asset.
Did we have to have the interest rate pain?
Interest rates went up to get inflation down. But are there other ways this could be achieved?
Jeffrey Halley: Post-budget state of the economy
Jeffrey Halley is Sunday Morning's man on the money. Audio
