Opus International Consultants, the engineering firm with one of four mandates to lead design the Christchurch rebuild, posted a 13 percent decline in first-half earnings, missing estimates, as its local business was hurt by the Mainzeal liquidation and lower local authority spending. Net profit fell to $9.4 million, or 6 cents per share, in the six months ended June 30, …

China’s Bright Food Group, a cornerstone stake in local processor Synlait Milk, is likely to get a boost from Fonterra Cooperative Group’s food scare and might get a credit rating upgrade from Moody’s Investors Service. Fonterra is the biggest milk powder supplier into China with about 60 percent market share, and last week’s food safety scare is seen as credit …

The New Zealand dollar rose against the Australian dollar as investors look ahead to reports today which may show the Australian economy is weakening, increasing the likelihood of further interest rate cuts. The kiwi advanced to 87.50 Australian cents at 8am in Wellington from 87.32 cents at the 5pm market close in Wellington yesterday. The local currency slipped to 80.01 …

Wall Street slipped as a report showed Japan’s economic growth fell short of expectations, adding to lacklustre data closer to home. Japan’s gross domestic product grew at an annualised 2.6 percent in the second quarter, after expanding a revised 3.8 percent in the previous three months. To be sure, some say it was not all bad news. “Headline GDP was …

New Zealand’s top technology security firms Gallagher, Tait Communications, Wynyard Group and Endace are trying a coordinated push into global markets as they share resources and draw on each other’s existing capabilities. The Security Technology Alliance will give the firms, who offer tech-based security products but don’t compete in the same markets, a way to bundle up their services in …

 Port of Tauranga, the country’s biggest export port, has spent $37.2 million buying property in Onehunga to expand its inland port operations in South Auckland. The 6.8 hectare property is adjacent to Port of Tauranga’s MetroPort inland operation, and includes three warehouses, an office building and two hectares of land earmarked for future development, chief executive Mark Cairns said in …

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Prime Minister John Key is vowing to go to China as soon as he can to apologise personally for the Fonterra botulism scare, armed with the findings of a new kind of Ministerial inquiry, for which new law will be passed, possibly under parliamentary urgency next week. Key announced at his post-Cabinet press conference that the Inquiries Bill, languishing on …

Sanford, New Zealand’s largest listed fishing company, said annual profit will fall short of its forecast after lower catches of skipjack tuna and toothfish and slow growth in its main Marlborough mussel growing area. The shares fell. Profit will probably be $23 million to $25 million in the year ending Sept. 30, from $21 million last year, the Auckland-based company …

Global metals giant Rio Tinto has told shareholders it has given up trying to sell four Australasian aluminium smelters and associated assets, including the Tiwai Point smelter. The announcement that Rio will “bring the assets back into our aluminium product group” came just hours after Meridian Energy announced it had renegotiated electricity contracts for the Tiwai Point smelter, which had …