New Zealand

Restaurant Brands 3Q sales creep higher as Pizza Hut rolls out the deals

Restaurant Brands, the fast food operator which recently launched the Carl’s Jr brand in New Zealand, lifted third-quarter sales 0.5 percent as its Pizza Hut stores’ cheap deals came up trumps in a highly competitive market. Total same store sales increased to $72.2 million in the three months ended Dec. 3, from $71.9 million in the same period a year …

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GOAP – Wesley Chan – Google Ventures

get cash quick Wesley Chan is a fun-loving entrepreneur and joined the Google Ventures team in 2009. Wesley is based out of Seattle, WA. As an early employee at Google, Wesley helped to start, launch, and grow Google Analytics and Google Voice products which millions of users depend on worldwide.

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ANZ Morning Brief: Time for reflection

GLOBAL MARKETS:  Our London colleagues report that it was a quiet day in Europe . Most of the day’s focus was on the negative Italian headlines.  The weekend’s Italian political bombshell, along with some very weak industrial production data out of France and Italy , weighed on European equities, EUR and Italian sovereign bonds in early trading. However, most markets …

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Government starts next stage of RMA reform

Environment Minister Amy Adams will today kick-off the next stage of the Government’s plan to reform the Resource Management Act. This afternoon, the Resource Management Amendment Bill 2012 will have its first reading in Parliament. The bill introduces a streamlined process for Auckland’s first unitary plan, a six-month time limit for processing consents for medium-sized projects and easier direct referral …

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