CarbonScape, which makes “green” coking charcoal, wants to raise as much as $1.5 million from equity crowd funding to commercialise its product for the steel manufacturing market. The Christchurch-based company has a minimum target of $400,000 on the Snowball Effect platform, with a funding cap of $1.5 million, and is hoping to lure investors offering shares at 20 cents apiece with …

Port of Tauranga, the country’s biggest coastal export hub, sees annual earnings growth of up to 6.1 percent and expects to finish plans to enable big ships to dock at its wharves over the coming year. The port operator forecasts annual profit of between $78 million and $83 million in the year ending June 30, 2015, compared to earnings of $78.2 …

Bank of New Zealand chief executive Anthony Healy has challenged other Kiwi business leaders to think what they can do to contribute to five key issues the country faces. The five issues include upskilling business owner-managers so they grow faster, capturing more opportunities from Asian economic growth, responding to environmental issues such as the degradation of our lowland waterways, getting …