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Managed isolation facilities here now hold cases of the highly-transmissible UK variant of Covid-19 and a new one associated with South Africa.
From cafés and restaurants to hair and beauty salons, businesses are bracing themselves for the “cataclysmic” prospect of level 4-type restrictions if the new, highly transmissible variants of the coronavirus make their way into our community. They want everyone – every single one of us – to start scanning the NZ Covid Tracer app, or signing in on a sheet of paper. “It’s one little thing, they ve made it so easy with the app,” said Melissa Janse van Rensburg, salon manager at Shazly Experience in Lower Hutt, whose brother-in-law died of Covid-19. “You can save so many lives and so many businesses.”
Covid 19 coronavirus: Warehouse Group forecasts bumper first-half profit
8 Jan, 2021 01:30 AM
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The group, which operates The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming and Torpedo7 stores, expects its gross margin for the half-year will be up circa 170 basis points. Photo / Tania Whyte
The group, which operates The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery, Noel Leeming and Torpedo7 stores, expects its gross margin for the half-year will be up circa 170 basis points. Photo / Tania Whyte
Aimee Shaw is a business reporter focusing on retail, small businessaimee.shaw@nzherald.co.nz@AceeyShaw
The Warehouse Group has upgraded its profit forecast for the first-half of the new financial year, saying its expects to make a profit of more than $90 million.
Sale tipped of giant NZ supermarket: from one multimillionaire to another
6 Jan, 2021 11:00 PM
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Supermarket sales: one store owner buying another. Photo / Greg Bowker
The supermarket thought to have the largest revenue of any in New Zealand is tipped to be sold to a former shelf stacker. In a deal due to settle later this year and which could be for around $50 million, insiders say the transition is on although owners are yet to confirm that.
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Crown Towers hotel opens at Crown Sydney, Barangaroo
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Photo: Trudi Jenkins It comes complete with resort-style private cabanas, day beds and poolside dining and is set on the edge of the Paris end of an at times dowdy Darling Harbour.
Photo: Trudi Jenkins The hotel spa. Crown Towers pool. The hotel opened on December 28 but Crown Sydney s casino remains closed pending approval of its gambling licence.
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Photo: Supplied The Teahouse lounge at Crown Sydney.
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Photo: Trudi Jenkins of It comes complete with resort-style private cabanas, day beds and poolside dining and is set on the edge of the Paris end of an at times dowdy Darling Harbour.