TOP KIWI INNOVATORS CROWNED
Fonterra was amongst the winners of this year’s New Zealand Innovators Awards, taking out the Innovation Excellence in Research for its new Milk Fingerprinting technology. The innovative diagnostic test…
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COUNTDOWN RECRUITS 500 STAFF NATIONALLY
Countdown has embarked on a massive recruitment drive to fill some of its 500 seasonal and permanent vacancies, with bulk recruitment days taking places in Christchurch, Auckland, Hamilton and…
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DELAYS HIT COUNTDOWN WELLINGTON
Wellington shoppers will have to wait a little bit longer than expected before setting foot inside their new Countdown supermarket, whose $4 million fit-out has recently been delayed to…
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GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED ANTIOBESITY PACKAGE
The New Zealand government has announced a package of 22 separate initiatives to tackle childhood obesity, targeting overweight children from the age of four. By December 2017, as a…
Read MoreEVERYTHING CAUSES SOMETHING!
Smoking, liquor, sugar and now processed meats. Soon there will be nothing in the shops that we can buy without it causing your leg to fall off….
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UN-FLUSHABLE WIPES
After tests were performed on 11 different flushable wipes, Consumer NZ made a surprising discovery; flushable wipes are actually unflushable. In fact, apart from the occasional…
Read MoreKITKAT REACHES 80
Nestlé is this year celebrating the 80th year of KitKat production. It was launched in 1935 by Rowntree’s in Yorkshire and is now produced…
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KIRSTEN COOPER IS ‘CHECKER OF THE YEAR’
Foodstuffs North Island has crowned its ‘Checker of the Year’, PAK’nSAVE New Plymouth’s checkout operator Kirsten Cooper. Now 28, Cooper has been behind the…
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