Retail sales in New Zealand have ramped up to records levels from March through to June, rising by 2.3 percent. Statistics New Zealand says this is the biggest boost recorded in retail sales since December 2006.
The Body Shop is one of New Zealand’s most well-recognised beauty brands, with 28 stores nationwide and a Facebook following of more than five million. Founded in 1976 in Britain, it has built its empire on selling naturally-scented beauty products and having a strong environmental
Massey University-affiliated Wellington company Space Between has been making new products out of corporate waste clothing. It's now asking for support to get a new designer, Larissa Banks, to help develop its next range.
When you’re starting up a business, it’s often through trial and error that you learn how to protect your brand and copyright. This was certainly the case for Beach Bandits, an online business that sells beach towels. We talked to Anton Blijlevens from AJ Park
New Zealand’s largest association of retailers, Retail NZ, is offering a free three-month trial membership. Retail NZ offers a variety of useful guides, a free advice hotline staffed by professional advisors, events and training, and of course, a subscription to NZRetail.
They’re pushed around all day long without complaint, occasionally kidnapped and pushed into bodies of water or abandoned in sketchy parts of town. They’re the unrecognised backbone of retail stores – shopping carts.
When entrepreneur Lawrence Railton launched AS Colour in 2006, he envisioned it as a wholesale distributor of blank t-shirts. It targeted screenprinters and fashion labels, but soon, young customers began to turn up at the warehouse to buy unprinted garments direct. The team saw an
Hot on the heels of competitor Adairs, listed Australian retailer Nick Scali Furniture has announced it will open three to four stores in New Zealand during 2018.
Vinyl. Real food. Jeans. Handmade. Sugar-free. Retro clothing. Organic. Vintage. It seems everything trendy with younger adults these days is just a reinvention of the trends from our grandmothers’ post-war era. Do Millennials and baby boomers drive the same trends and have more in common
As the popularity of craft markets began to wane, Hawke’s Bay artist Andy Heyward and others began to look at other ways of getting their products in front of customers. The answer was to enter the traditional bricks and mortar realm, and set up a