Heartland Bank is emphasising its digital future as it announces the departure of its chief financial officer, Simon Owen, after 13 years with the bank and its predecessor, Marac.

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A2 Milk shares fell nearly 12% on Friday after its Australian competitor in the infant formula market, Bellamy’s, reported a shocking sales downgrade.

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Although Tim Murphy – former New Zealand Herald editor-in-chief and co-founder of soon-to-be-launched digital news offering Newsroom – has written about the proposed merger between Fairfax New Zealand and NZME, he hasn’t previously stated his personal view.

Now, however, on the eve of the public conference the Commerce Commission has called to discuss the issue, he finally tips his hand.

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Rob Hosking: 'resilience' to be National's theme as it opens the books for Election 2017

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Depending on your political leanings, Saturday’s by-election in Mt Roskill is a non-event, a sign of Labour’s resurgence based on local politics or a potential victory to restore a National government majority.

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Strong GDP growth, coupled with growing risks, is the backdrop to the economic and political debate as the year’ end draws nearer.

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"Labour is close to revealing the maximum life expectancy for a major political party in New Zealand."

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Qatar Airways will kick off a major boost to its 150-plus destination network with a new Doha-Auckland service on February 5. In an announcement this week, Qatar has added Canberra to its list of 15 new destinations in 2017-18.

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Sadly, despite having an ethnic-sounding name as well as plausibly ticking off a couple of other minority boxes in terms of personal background, I’ve never experienced any of the crimes against diversity that some news outlets would suggest are roiling the culture in New Zealand.

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Tim Hunter on the quick expansion and unmanageable debt that led to Pumpkin Patch's fall.

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