Maria Slade

2 weeks ago | businessdesk.co.nz | Maria Slade

Former Du Val director Owen Culliney has split from the Hamilton law firm he founded. He stopped serving as a director of iCLAW last Friday and vacated his remaining shares this week to partners Aasha Foley and Sam Douglas. “Sam, Aasha and I are ending our partnership amicably with a clear plan in place to support our team and clients,” Culliney told BusinessDesk.

2 weeks ago | businessdesk.co.nz | John Anthony |Maria Slade |Oliver Lewis

Vital Healthcare Property Trust (VHP) is selling 4200sq m of Melbourne real estate valued at more than $50 million. CBRE Group is marketing the two properties in the Box Hill healthcare precinct, described as “one of the highest-quality healthcare precincts in Australia”, on behalf of VHP.The first property, the four-level Ekera Medical Centre at 116-118 Thames St, was built in 2013 and has a December valuation of $39.2m and boasts 98% occupancy.

2 weeks ago | businessdesk.co.nz | John Anthony |Maria Slade |Rebecca Howard

Clothing brand Rodd & Gunn is pushing pause on its US expansion and expects “a significant decline in sales” as it faces a 46% tariff on many goods shipped there, its chief executive says.Rodd & Gunn chief executive Michael Beagley said the scale of price rises in the US, as a result of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, were going to be far greater than any other time in modern history, if there was no change to the current tariff strategy.“Initially there will be a sales surge as...

2 weeks ago | businessdesk.co.nz | Maria Slade

Building and construction sector leaders have joined forces to lobby against a Government plan they say will obstruct the training of skilled workers.Industry bodies representing 16,000 businesses and a similar number of apprentices in training say the Government has consulted on work-based learning reforms twice, yet is still trying to foist upon them a model they do not want.The proposed “Option C” embeds training within polytechnics, reducing the industry’s ability to grow the workers it...

2 weeks ago | businessdesk.co.nz | Maria Slade

If social media had been a thing in Princess Diana’s day, the epic War of the Wales may have taken a very different form.As their mismatched union imploded, she and Prince Charles probably would have employed the guerilla tactics of Instagram reels and influencer campaigns rather than sit-down television exclusives and tell-all books.Such modern media weaponry may not have been available in the early 1990s, but the intent was the same: to manipulate public opinion for their own benefit, she...