Gull New Zealand is celebrating Christmas early this year allowing its customers to fuel at its petrol pumps for a lower price for one day.

The deal offering cheaper petrol is available starting from December 17, Thursday7am, to December 18, Friday, midday.

Maggie Barry, New Zealand's Conservation Minister said that a new partnership between the Department of Conservation and Transpower will help in protecting rare native birds and the wetlands in Fiordland National Park which are under threat.

The biggest dairy exporter in the world, Fonterra Cooperative Group confirmed laying off 835 staff as a part of its restructuring this year. The numbers are greater than what the cooperative had announced earlier in August as 750.
 

The online games, iTunes download, Netflix subscription, as well as the Amazon e-books will no remain tax free, as the government plans to slap all of them with GST within one year.

Air New Zealand might possibly announce a new destination and that could be Vietnam. The airline is looking at some new South East Asian routes and the carrier will is expected to make a "significant announcement" during briefing in Auckland.

During the weekend the airline said it was in at the concluding stages of evaluation for its plans.

Silver Fern Farms, the New Zealand based multinational meat co-operative said that it has achieved positive financial results for 2015 and has further reduced its debts further.