Wellington, Sept 3 NZPA - Just Water International Limited (JWI) has released "unacceptable" full year results showing a $17.7 million loss in consolidated earning before interest and taxes (ebit).

Wellington, Sept 3 NZPA - Forbes Magazine has picked a list of 200 "best under a billion" top-performing companies in Asia -- those worth under $US1 billion -- including one New Zealand company and 13 Australian companies.

Wellington, Sept 2 NZPA - Why fix what is not broken rings true with BNZ as it reverts to a logo similar to its old 1950s southern cross design. In 2008 BNZ changed its logo to a simple "BNZ", dropping the southern cross and gold chevron.

Wellington, Sept 2 NZPA - The New Zealand Farming Systems Uruguay (NZFSU) board is now recommending that shareholders accept a raised offer from Olam International. As recently as Monday the company advised shareholders to wait for further information before accepting the offer.

Wellington, Sept 2 NZPA - Fonterra has appointed First NZ Capital-Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank-Craigs Investment Partners to advise it on creating two new markets, one to allow farmer-shareholders to trade shares among themselves, and another to allow indirect public investment in the co-opera

Wellington, Sept 2 NZPA - Pyne Gould Corp said its subsidiary Perpetual Group is in advanced exclusive talks with ASB Bank Ltd to buy fund management business Aegis.

Wellington, Sept 2 NZPA - BusinessNZ is suggesting taxpayers need to consider what of sort of compensation they are prepared to pay to disaffected property owners, if restrictions are put on the sale of assets to overseas interests.

Wellington, Sept 2 NZPA - Torchlight Fund may have invested in South Canterbury Finance (SCF) hoping for a receivership to put itself at the table for the sorting out process, according to an investor in Pyne Gould Corp (PGC).

Wellington, Sept 2 NZPA - Customer satisfaction with the big five banks improved during the year to June, but smaller rivals Kiwibank and TSB remain at the head of the pack, a survey shows.