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Adorn yourself with a luscious solid perfume from Pacific Perfumes’ new Artisan range and revel in nature’s opulence. There are no synthetic ingredients – each fragrance is crafted from rich, beguiling scents of real flowers, leaves and woods.

New Zealand’s own Pacific Perfumes is one of only a handful of perfume houses in the world that create complex and evocative fragrances entirely from natural ingredients…

Funding for a new leadership programme to help New Zealand firms lift their management skills so they can succeed internationally has been announced by the Government. The $1.3 million programme targeted at senior executives, owners and directors of New Zealand firms doing business overseas aims to accelerate the learning process for internationalising firms and improve firms’ prospects of international success…

A one-day forum is being organised by The New Zealand China Trade Association and the New China Contemporary Research Centre for organisations engaged in business in China and academics who wish to test academic research with what actually happens in the market place. The symposium presents a unique opportunity to update yourself with the latest research on inter-relationship and risk management in China and to hear from successful practitioners in China…

A one-day symposium for health professionals hosted by the Vitamin D research centre, institute of food, nutrition and human health, Massey University…

Commissioning is a common occurrence in business, engaging others with particular expertise to develop or produce something for either you or your company to use. Packaging designs, logo and trade mark designs and increasingly website design, are often jobs passed on to third parties to take care of on your behalf…

In the first part of this article we examined the distinction between the types of works which are subject to the commissioning rule and those which are not. This part looks at the elements of a valid commissioning and concludes with some pragmatic advice to safeguard ownership of commissioned copyright works…

The outcomes of a study commissioned by the National Institute of Complementary Medicine (NICM) have recently been published. It compares the costs and health benefits of complementary medicines/treatments for a range of common ailments, from depression to heart disease and back pain… Report of Cost effectiveness of comp meds in Australia

New Zealand could double the value of its food exports if it heeds the advice of a new report. This report was commissioned from Coriolis Research by the Ministry of Economic Development…

FSANZ continues to maintain its scientific profile and recently published a paper, Food composition–essential data in epidemiological studies of food and health, in the Australasian Epidemiologist Volume 17.1 in April this year. The paper highlights the importance of maintaining the composition database with the most current Australian data…