Tourism Holdings, which merged its campervan rental business with two rivals last year, cut its annual earnings guidance on a deteriorating Australian market after posting a small first-half loss as expected. The shares fell 1.5 percent. The Auckland-based company made a loss of $500,000, or 0.4 cents per share, in the six months ended Dec. 31, from a profit of …

Wellington Drive Technologies, which makes energy efficient motors, narrowed its full-year loss after embarking on a strategic overhaul that cut costs, spending and inventory and widened its margins. The net loss shrank to $6.3 million in calendar 2012, from a loss of $14.5 million a year earlier, the Auckland-based company said in a statement. Revenue rose 2 percent to $35.6 …

Competition regulator the Commerce Commission has confirmed that gas distribution network owner Vector will have to cut its prices by 18 percent, and cut its wholesale gas transmission charges by 29.5 percent. The final determinations are in line with earlier drafts, and remain the subject of a High Court merits appeal led by Vector and supported by a range of …