Diligent Board Member Services, the governance software developer, says it won’t meet a Dec. 12 deadline to release its first half results and now expects then to be as late as Feb. 28, when it is due to publish its full-year report. The company said NZX has indicated it won’t suspend trading in Diligent’s shares provided it meets the new …

Godfrey Hirst, which acquired failed carpet maker Feltex in 2006, has pulled a $50 million dividend from its New Zealand business while reporting annual sales growth and one-time gains from asset sales and purchases. Profit was $10.8 million in the year ended June 30 for Hirst’s Avon Pacific Holdings unit, from $10.3 million a year earlier, according to the Auckland-based …

– State-owned lender Kiwibank is back within the terms of its bank registration after the departure of New Zealand Post director Murray Gribben evened up the number of independent directors on the board. Gribben resigned from the boards of New Zealand Post and Kiwibank on Nov. 30 to take up a new role as chief executive of Crown Irrigation Investments, …