A $1 billion plan could almost quadruple the size of Mt Wellington's Sylvia Park and make it a new town hub.

The grocery industry, lest we forget, is basically trench warfare, Tim Morris insists.

Good sales growth continued in the March quarter in both New Zealand and Australia, although conditions continued to be difficult for the Canadian business, chairman Michael Hill said today.

The Department of Labour will consider prosecuting 38 retailers after 19 were caught trading on Good Friday and another 19 on Easter Sunday.

CC's and Aztec corn chips have been cut from supermarket shelves in New Zealand and have been replaced by a locally made version of the American brand Doritos.

The choices we make at the supermarket checkout are less down to personal taste than we might like to think.

Revenue at the newly-listed Kathmandu rose 27.5pc in the six months to the end of January.

New Zealand's biggest shopping mall is planning a major expansion, including multi-storey apartments and office blocks to create a "mini CBD".

A proposed optic fibre cable linking NZ, Australia and the USA would unleash billions of dollars of economic potential by connecting NZ businesses to global markets by 2013.

Not every child in the world is obsessed with hi-tech games consoles to the exclusion of more traditional toys.