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28 March 2011
Winemakers join forces to tackle US market
Winemakers from three regions are joining forces in what is thought to be the first New Zealand independent consortium to market itself in the United States market | Read more
02 March 2011
Award-winning NZ tech company sells to US partner
Hot on the heels of EMS-Cortex's sale to Citrix comes another big NZ-US software deal. Mobile banking and payment software company M-Com has been bought by its longtime US partner, Fiserv. | Read more
17 January 2011
Wool Research signs US firm
David Douglas hopes a group of United States innovators can do for wool what they did for LCD flat-screen television producer Samsung. | Read more
17 November 2010
NZ biofuels firm working with US govt lab
New Zealand's pioneering biofuel company LanzaTech is to work with the US Department of Energy. | Read more
11 October 2010
Citrix deal will help Aptimize optimise
United States technology giant Citrix has entered into a partnership with Wellington start-up Aptimize and will help sell its software that is designed to make websites and intranets load more quickly. | Read more
10 October 2010
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Negotiators pleased with talks
The third round of talks for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement successful, according to TPP's lead negotiators, although a deadline for the agreement has yet to be drawn. | Read more
30 September 2010
US govt funds NZ wave power prototype
A wave power prototype designed by researchers at a state science company has won a government grant of more than $2 million -- from the United States government. | Read more
06 September 2010
Simon Mundell: Setting up business in the US
New Zealand is a great test market for new businesses. Primarily conservative and comparatively resistant to new ideas, New Zealand has nearly non-existent capital markets, higher interest rates than most OECD countries, and the challenge of raising finance. The bottom line is, if you can make a business work in New Zealand, you can make it work in the United States. | Read more
18 August 2010
Hart empire in bid to buy US company
New Zealand billionaire Graeme Hart's investment company Rank Group is in talks to acquire United States firm Pactiv, worth more than US$4 billion, to add to its global packaging empire, Bloomberg News reports. | Read more
27 July 2010
US wine market to swell by 2030
Consumption of table wine is forecast to rise by 125 million cases in the US market by 2030, according to industry website WinesandVines.com. | Read more
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