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3 weeks ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | David Linklater |Jacques Steenkamp |Helen van Berkel
An interesting car plus a relevant destination equals a road trip, right? Meet the Porsche 911 Carrera GTS T-Hybrid, the first road-going version of this sports car icon with electrification.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | David Linklater |Jacques Steenkamp |Helen van Berkel
By Geoff EdgersThe groupies were everywhere, but Yoko Ono was not one of them. It was Nov 7, 1966, when she met John Lennon for the first time. He and the Beatles were about to start making Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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3 weeks ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Helen van Berkel |David Linklater |Jacques Steenkamp |Matt Martel
For the past 30 years, Black Grace has been bringing a Pacific Island and Māori perspective to the stage via dance. Last Saturday night, the dance group celebrated its three decades of redefining dance in New Zealand, creating and strengthening the stage for Pasifika artists – particularly men – in a show called This is Not a Retrospective.
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2 months ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Ben Moore |Helen van Berkel
New Zealand medical software company Medtech Global has been acquired by Banyan Software, a private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum.Medtech is a medical practice software provider owned by Australian private equity firm Advent Partners and its NZ-based chief executive and managing director, Geoffrey Sayer.Advent and Sayer bought Medtech Global’s practice management system from Cereus Holdings in 2020.Medtech GlobalAlthough Medtech Global is headquartered in Auckland, its NZ entity is...
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2 months ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Cecile Meier |Helen van Berkel |Oliver Lewis
The Compass Group has called Pita Pit, a pie shop and a supplier of special dietary meals, to the rescue after multiple failures in the first couple of weeks of its cut-price school lunch programme. It has also quietly released the nutritional contents of its meals, which a registered nutritionist assessed for BusinessDesk as providing about half of the energy children above the age of nine should get in a nutritious lunch.
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2 months ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Oliver Lewis |Damien O'Carroll |Helen van Berkel |David Linklater
Port of Auckland chair Jan Dawson was named chairperson of the year at the 2024 Deloitte Top 200 awards. A keen yachtie and longstanding professional director, she led one of the big four advisory firms in New Zealand, KPMG, for six years and became the first woman to chair a major retail bank in this country when she held the role at Westpac.I was born in Blockhouse Bay, so I was a Westie.
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2 months ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Helen van Berkel |Oliver Lewis |Dileepa Fonseka
By Alex JaninA small but growing movement of scientists wants to classify ageing as a disease. They face an uphill battle.An improving scientific understanding of the biology of ageing is leading some scientists, doctors and entrepreneurs to argue that ageing is a disease. It’s a major driver of illness and death, they say, and classifying it as such could make it easier to get drugs approved to treat ageing itself, rather than just age-related health problems.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Helen van Berkel |David Linklater |Rebecca Howard
The journey is half the fun when visiting Tantalus Estate Vineyard on Waiheke Island. First, you book online. You have to hand over your credit-card details before you even open a menu, and are warned of a $50 per person cancellation fee ($150 given there were three of us). Then you have to figure out the confusing ferry timetable and gulp at the fares ($29.50 each, one way, with an AT Hop concession). Then you check the weather forecast and discover it will rain all day.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Rebecca Howard |David Linklater |Helen van Berkel
The Wellington-based industry association that Irish-born vet Liz Shackleton leads comprises companies that manufacture, distribute and sell products that keep animals healthy and crops thriving.As a 5-year-old, I rolled with a menagerie of animals trailing after me like the pied piper of Hamlin. Or you’d find me somewhere in a hedgerow, with a notebook, drawing plants and wildlife. There was never any question that I wanted to be a vet. At school, I was a diligent nerd with a hint of rebel.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
nzherald.co.nz | Helen van Berkel
Qantas business class from Auckland to Brisbane. Photo / Josh Withers on UnsplashHelen Van Berkel enjoys 3.5 hours of pure luxury in Qantas business class, flying from Auckland to BrisbaneFlight Check: Qantas, business class, Auckland to BrisbaneAirline: Qantas A-300. From: Auckland International Airport. To: Brisbane International Airport, Australia. AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME. AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
