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Innovation, focus on customers keys to success

Manufacturing in New Zealand has its challenges but advantages too, writes Catherine Beard.

Manufacturing sales edge higher

Manufacturing keeps growing in December

F & P to boost R & D for new owner

High dollar is 'new normal'

Ericsson opens new fibre duct plant - 30 jobs

Skellerup shares sink 10pc as earnings fall

Noel Davies: Customer key to successful innovative development

As nations struggle to pull themselves out of the economic malaise created by the global financial crisis, innovation appears to be an enduring theme.

Independent Liquor tipped as Mill buyer

Tru-Test buys milk storage unit for $73m

Prospects 'limited' after job losses

Workers who will lose their jobs when the Summit Wool Spinners' Oamaru plant closes could struggle to find work and may have to move, the Otago Chamber of Commerce says.

Trade figures suggest 'economic recovery continuing'

Manufacturers threaten to quit NZ

More leading export companies are on the verge of moving overseas due to the high dollar, Opposition MPs were told yesterday by manufacturers.

John Armstrong: Inquiry exposes Govt vulnerability on exchange rate

A lot of exporters of manufactured products had been waiting for an opportunity to vent anguish over the high exchange rate, writes John Armstrong. The targets of the anger - John Key, the Reserve Bank, Steven Joyce and the Treasury - were absent.

Chinese data boosts NZ shares

Production barely expands

The manufacturing sector ended 2012 much as it had spent the whole year, just barely on the right side of the line between expansion and contraction, the BNZ-Business New Zealand performance of manufacturing index (PMI) indicates.

Manufacturing ends 2012 subdued

Bryan Gould: Crisis in manufacturing goes unheeded

An uncompetitive economy like ours becomes more and more dependent on those fewer and fewer sectors that can compete in international terms, writes Bryan Gould.