TV actress Robyn Malcolm was popular speaker at the recent NZIM Southern’s Women’s Conference held in Christchurch. The sell-out crowd of business women from all around the South Island also enjoyed the presentations by Diana, Lady Isaac, Nigel Latta, Marcus Akuhata-Brown, Melissa Clark-Reynolds and Annabelle White. Jim Hopkins was MC.
After a punishing economic cycle Kiwi businesses are emerging into something of a stabilisation period. Cautiously optimistic, past the worst, but with operating costs still biting and reinvestment held back. Why the next six months will define the recovery, and what business owners need to be doing in that period.
Close to one in 10 New Zealand employees changed roles inside their own company in the past three months, but pay across the market barely moved, new data shows.
The World Economic Forum recently released its annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies Report 2026, identifying what it sees as breakthroughs poised to reshape economies and societies within the next three to five years.
