Rob Stock

New Zealanders should soon have access to an app that allows them to buy stakes in farmers' crops. Think Sharesies but for crops, orchard fruit, aqua-farming, wool, and livestock.

Expectations were already low that a global plastics treaty would be signed this year, and then Donald Trump was elected president of the United States.

BY THE NUMBERS: SkyCity's International Convention Centre is due to open next year, but shareholders at the company's tense AGM late last month got a video tour to help offset their misery at the company's share price woes.

Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly may be the Government's new scam tsar, but there are different views as to the size of the problem Bayly has been unleashed to tackle.

A national e-waste product stewardship scheme is in the works for next year, but one company is getting ahead of the new scheme and is busy hiring

Rob Stock Westpac's top bankers faced the most aggressive line of questioning yet at Parliament's banking inquiry as MPs' demonstrated an increasingly in-depth understanding, and scepticism of the sector.

The Tyrewise scheme is closing in on collecting 1million used tyres for disposal since it launched on September 1.

“Basically, I buy a brand new Ford Ranger every month, and I take that up to the end of the drive, and I park it on the drive, and leave the keys in it, and let the first guy that comes along takes it.”

Warehouse Group's poor execution and financial performance was “not acceptable”, chairperson Joan Withers told shareholders at the struggling retailer's annual meeting in Auckland.

About 2000 people have pledged to switch their money out of ASB's KiwiSaver scheme on Friday, if ASB does not pledge to sell its stake in technology company Motorola.