New Zealand business owners with a story to tell the world can now access funds and video production resources to help share their messages globally.

Palmerston North-based cinema advertising network Screen Vistas – independently NZ-owned and a major player in the marketplace for the past 28 years – has won a tender for exclusive national advertising rights for Reading Cinemas in New Zealand.

Here’s a tribute you won’t read in any daily paper – it’s rock’n’roller Larry Morris’s account of the last hours he spent at the deathbed of pioneering Kiwi pop legend Ray Columbus.

Z Energy was the big winner at last night’s 2016 Deloitte Top 200 Business Awards at the Vector Arena, taking out the Company of  the Year Award, and CEO of the Year (for Z’s Mike Bennetts). Spark, Chorus, ACC, Zespri, Synlait, and ASB also featured among the winners.

Global marketing software provider Marketo has been selected by Retail Food Group (RFG) as a central part of the digital transformation of the Australia-based multi-brand giant which has over 2400 stores internationally – including NZ franchisees Brumby’s Bakery, Donut King, Michel’s Patisserie, and Gloria Jean’s Coffees.

Shopper marketing agency Energi today moves from the Ground Floor of the TBWA building – the old Public Trust Building in Mayoral Drive – to new premises at Level 1, Tasman Building, 16-22 Anzac Ave, in uptown Auckland; phone 09 300 4666.

The Lego Group is a privately held 68-yearold multibillion-dollar global toy brick company based in Billund, Denmark. In 2015, Lego replaced Ferrari as Brand Finance’s world’s most powerful brand. Lego last year turned over NZ$4.2 billion, and spent millions – maybe hundreds of millions – globally on advertising, marketing and PR.

QMS has unveiled one of its most spectacular landmark digital billboards yet – a 14-metre high monster that towers over Auckland’s QE2 Square, New Zealand’s busiest pedestrian precinct.