Press Releases

Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement has been tipped for a role in a new feature film that’s due to start filming soon.

New Zealand designers are excited about new state of the art wool fabrics set to be showcased this month at Air New Zealand Fashion Week.

New Zealand's premier fashion event is to open up the runway and say 'Gidday' to Australian fashion designers for the first time.

Auckland’s Sky Tower, the southern hemisphere’s tallest building, now has another claim to fame. It’s just set a new record for the largest number of fire-fighters wearing full apparatus, in a New Zealand building at one time, not fighting a fire.

Australian and American fire brigades are to take on their Kiwi counterparts in an unusual challenge that will see 349 firefighters in full kit racing to the top of Auckland’s Sky Tower.

Rotorua’s world famous thermal activity has generated the first New Zealand Qualmark Green award.

Wind sport enthusiasts from around the globe are gathering for the inaugural world championships of an unusual sport invented in New Zealand.

An enterprising New Zealand chocolate maker has put a tongue-in-cheek spin on swine flu by producing a novel chocolate bar with a medicinal filling.

A New Zealand company has applied technology it developed for a foldable kayak to the biochemistry world.

Salmon lollipops and truffle eggs in mini ice-cream cones will tempt New Zealand’s Prime Minister and other guests at the opening of Savour NZ - a three day culinary extravaganza in Auckland this weekend.