Fisher & Paykel Appliances is to recruit 100 new, highly skilled staff over the next two years to boost the company’s strengths product research and development as it deepens its relationship with its Chinese owner, global whiteware supplier Haier. The plans call for a range of industrial engineers, designers and product developers to be split between the company’s two development …

The Commerce Commission says it is still working on its investigation into whether interest rate swaps were misleadingly marketed after claims from farmers that they got locked into confusing contracts with excessive break fees. The commission began its probe in August last year and has received 42 complaints since concerns over the way the financial derivatives were sold first aired …

New Zealand First warns that Government cuts to biosecurity will lead to another disaster to match the Psa kiwifruit bacteria outbreak which has been identified as reaching the country in a consignment of anthers from Shaanxi Province in China to Kiwi Pollen in June 2009. It is understood that Otago University associate professor Russell Poulter undertook genetic analysis to trace …