Celebs live below the poverty line
Celebrities all around New Zealand will be ditching trim soy latte coffees, fancy meals and wine this week and instead try to live on $11.25 for five days.
Countdown construction under way
Work has begun on a new Countdown supermarket, on the former DYC Vinegar site in Ponsonby, spanning Crummer Road, Pollen Street and Williamson Avenue in Auckland.
Raising $25,000 to help women with breast cancer
For the fourth year, Bio-Oil turns pink for Breast Cancer Month in support of its partnership with the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence continues to stabilise
The ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence rose 0.7% to 113.7 in the week ending September 28. After volatility earlier in the year, the stabilisation in confidence over most of August and September.
Another drop in dairy prices
International dairy prices dropped to levels not seen since May 2012 at the GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction last week, resulting in a fresh wave of selling in an already weakened New Zealand dollar.
Wine tweet goes viral
One American winemaker received a huge boost when a single tweet about their wine went mad on social media. The wine in question is made by Doubleback in Washington State and has been included in Wine Spectator’s Top 100 list.
New World Wine Awards 2014 announced
The results of the New World Wine Awards have been released with New Zealand wines scooping the three top awards and over 60% of the medals (including nearly three-quarters of all the Gold medals).
Big brand beers face legal action in the US
In lawsuits which could have implications around the world, several plaintiffs claim brewery giant Anheuser-Busch is misleading customers by not clearly informing them that Kirin and Beck’s beers sold in America are now brewed there, not in Japan or Germany.
Award for Excellence in Food Safety
The Produce Marketing Association Australia-New Zealand’s (PMA A-NZ) Technology Manager Richard Bennett has received an award for Excellence in Food Safety.
Vegetarian Awareness Month begins
Between looking for a more ethical way of eating, following the advice of health professionals to reduce cholesterol and celebrity endorsements of the lifestyle, vegetarianism is now very much mainstream.
Recall: Macro Brazil, Almond and Cashew Spread
Progressive Enterprises Ltd is initiating a recall of all batches of Woolworths Macro Brazil, Almond and Cashew spread as the product may contain peanuts.
From the editor’s library
Once they couldn’t give it away, now it’s liquid gold. Local legend has it that manuka honey was once so hard to sell that a Great Barrier Island man might have dropped his entire harvest into the sea, so low was the price he was offered for it.