GeoOp, the workforce management app developer, will raise $2.4 million in private placement to foreign investors, senior management and the board to help fund the company’s expansion in Australia. The Auckland-based company will sell 5 million shares at 48 cents apiece to a group of investors, with the funds raised going towards beefing up its team in Australia, GeoOp’s biggest …

The Federal Reserve is preparing for its annual meeting in Jackson Hole amid intensifying concern the slowing growth in China will impact the global economy and US corporate profits. Wall Street sank last week, along with other equity markets, as did US oil which briefly slid below US$40 a barrel. The declining appeal of stocks and an increased appetite for …

Most of the end value of New Zealand’s dairy ingredients is being captured by foreign-owned firms beyond the border, a new report shows. The government-commissioned Coriolis research report on growing consumer demand for dairy products in Southeast Asia is the latest in a series on New Zealand’s food and beverage industry aimed at achieving the government’s goal of doubling exports to 40 percent …