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Military drone on display with large crowds at an airshow, showcasing aviation technology.

A Mount Maunganui drone maker is beating Lockheed Martin at its own game

A drone company operating out of Mount Maunganui just won New Zealand's top technology award, secured a £30 million ($66.8...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Aerial view of fish cages in the ocean under clear blue skies, illustrating aquaculture practices.

Southland’s fish farm fight will decide if NZ can still build anything in the ocean

The biggest aquaculture bet in a generation Ngāi Tahu Seafood Resources Ltd wants to build four marine farms off Stewart Island's...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Modern data server room with network racks and cables.

Southland’s $3.5 billion data centre could blow out everyone else’s power bill

Bigger than Tiwai Point and nobody's talking about the wires Datagrid New Zealand has secured full resource consent for a 78,000...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
African American men in suits shaking hands in a formal law office setting with USA flags and globe.

Luxon’s Pacific trip offers handshakes when businesses need workers

Christopher Luxon is in Samoa and Tonga this week, meeting two new Pacific leaders and bringing along a delegation of...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Modern data server room with network racks and cables.

Health NZ cut IT knowing the risk would land on patients

Every organisation under cost pressure faces the same temptation: cut the thing that doesn't generate revenue. IT is always near...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Colorful waterfront buildings in Queenstown with mountainous backdrop and vibrant greenery.

Christchurch is running out of hotel rooms and the government keeps sending more tourists

The number that should worry investors and policymakers alike Christchurch hotels hit 96.4% occupancy in February 2026, the highest February rate...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Parliament Buildings and The Beehive

Business should stop waiting for a Luxon reset that probably isn’t coming

The week ending 7 March was, by most accounts, the worst of Christopher Luxon's prime ministership. A Taxpayers' Union Curia...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Kaitaki. Cook Strait Ferry. NZ

Cook Strait freight runs on hope and there is no Plan B until 2029

When the Interislander ferry Kaiārahi suffered a technical fault this month, reducing KiwiRail's Cook Strait fleet to a single vessel...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
A young entrepreneur gives a presentation on startup strategies indoors with a flip chart.

New Zealand’s $2 million crowdfunding cap hasn’t moved in a decade and founders are paying for it

A New Zealand company that successfully raises money from its community through equity crowdfunding hits a wall at $2 million...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Majestic Centre and church, Wellington 3 June 2005

Wellington’s CBD sits on a seismic trap twice as deep as anyone priced in

The ground under the capital just got softer Victoria University of Wellington researchers have mapped the Lambton Basin, the soft sedimentary...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Studio shot of income tax envelope with red pen for accounting and tax season preparation.

427,000 people on welfare and the government’s only plan is to punish them harder

Social Development Minister Louise Upston promised to cut 50,000 people from Jobseeker support by 2030. Since that announcement, the number...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4 min read
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The government is breaking the teachers union monopoly in plain sight

Nine months of no and counting Education Minister Erica Stanford announced on 11 March that school boards could immediately offer non-union...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4 min read
payday loan, loan, finances

NZ’s open banking regime is built for the banks, not the fintechs trying to challenge them

The queue only goes one way When the Customer and Product Data Act 2025 created New Zealand's open banking framework, it...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Group of volunteers in blue sweaters organizing food donations with brown boxes and clipboards indoors.

A third of households can’t afford food and your workforce is in the queue

The numbers that should unsettle every employer The 2025 Hunger Monitor, New Zealand's first comprehensive national food insecurity survey, found one...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
Expansive indoor cannabis greenhouse in Salinas, showcasing healthy marijuana plants under sunlight.

Forty companies fought over a $10 million market and the wreckage was inevitable

The latest tombstone Helius Therapeutics, once the flagship of New Zealand's medicinal cannabis ambitions, was placed into voluntary administration in March...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 4 min read
Kapuni Natural Gas. Production Plant, Taranaki (41487974881)

Ballance bought farmers three months and the clock is already ticking

Three months is not a strategy Ballance Agri-Nutrients has secured another short-term gas supply agreement for its Kapuni plant, extending operations...

By B2B News | 13 Mar 2026 | 5 min read
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