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[ad_1] With Christchurch City Council’s Draft Long Term Plan 2024–2034 in the spotlight, its online budget tool is making it easier for people to find out about the Council’s planned projects, when they’re due and how much they’ll cost. Head of Communications and Engagement Katy McRae says the beauty of the tool is how it…
[ad_1] With consultation now open on the Draft Annual Plan 2022/23, Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel is encouraging people to share their views on whether we have got the balance right. The Draft Annual Plan outlines what Christchurch City Council plans to spend on projects and day-to-day services over the coming financial year and how the…
[ad_1] For the first three years of this Draft Long Term Plan, we’ve set our core capital spend at $400 million in the first year, $420 million in the second year, and $443 million in the third year. We’re making sure we can do all the work we want to deliver in the timeframe we’ve…
[ad_1] More than three-quarters of Christchurch City Council’s spending last year was with Canterbury businesses and trading locally is an ongoing priority to help boost the city’s economy. Choosing local suppliers, where possible, to purchase goods and services from is important to help deliver the Council’s “procurement” policy objectives. The Council is the second-largest employer…
[ad_1] Retail spending in Christchurch increased by 4 per cent during June 2020 compared to the same period last year, bringing it back in line with pre-COVID levels, according to the latest Marketview data. Spending growth was seen across home, hardware and electrical (up 26 per cent) and apparel and personal (up 16 per cent),…
[ad_1] Retail spending in Christchurch increased by four per cent during June 2020 compared to the same period last year, bringing it back in line with pre-COVID levels, according to the latest Marketview data. Spending growth was seen across home, hardware and electrical (up 26 per cent) and apparel and personal (up 16 per cent),…
[ad_1] Anna Elphick General Manager Strategy, Insight and Policy said the increased spending was encouraging but there is still some way to go. “There’s been strong growth in many suburbs including Papanui and New Brighton. Pent up demand and eased restrictions on movement have provided some buoyancy to the levels of retail spending, but we…
[ad_1] In the period from 14 to 31 May 2020, spending in Christchurch increased 9 per cent compared to the same period in 2019. The country moved to Alert Level 2 at 11.59pm on Wednesday 13 May 2020. For the entire month of May 2020, overall spending in the city was 15 per cent lower…
[ad_1] “Consumer spending by individuals and businesses accounts for 60 per cent of economic activity – how each person spends their income makes a huge difference to keeping local businesses afloat and people in jobs. The spend trickles through the community – to workers, suppliers and producers and ultimately benefits us all,” Norris said. “Level…
[ad_1] “The latest figures are a promising indicator that consumer spending does have the potential to soften the blow COVID-19 will have on our economy,” Elphick said. Compared to the previous week, Elphick said spending had picked up significantly in all retail categories other than the Food, Liquor and Pharmacies category. “The lowering of the…
[ad_1] “The latest figures are a promising indicator that consumer spending does have the potential to soften the blow COVID-19 will have on our economy,” Elphick said. Compared to the previous week, Elphick said spending had picked up significantly in all retail categories other than the Food, Liquor and Pharmacies category. “The lowering of the…
[ad_1] “Consumer spending by individuals and businesses accounts for 60 per cent of economic activity – how each person spends their income makes a huge difference to keeping local businesses afloat and people in jobs. The spend trickles through the community – to workers, suppliers and producers and ultimately benefits us all,” Norris said. “Level…
The New Zealand Budget 2010! For most of us this is something that we have been looking to for a while now. There has been plenty of hype running around this years budget and the cat has now been let out of the bag. Property tax has been hit hard with quite an increase and…
The recession has touched and changed consumers on every level – they’ve acquired new behaviours, thoughts, and feelings. They will therefore unquestionably spend in different ways following the recession. Behaviour: By necessity, consumers have changed their spending behaviour. A quick look at retail sales figures tells a dramatic story of a swift and forceful shift…
New Zealand’s economy shrank for a fifth consecutive quarter in the three months to March and recorded its first annual decline in economic activity since 1992. Figures published by Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) today show gross domestic product fell 1 per cent in the March quarter, following a revised fall of 1 per cent in…
Lets start 2009 with a little less bad news from the economys point of view. We are now starting to see some of the effects on the credit crunch and how it is affecting the spending habbits of New Zealanders. In November New Zealand household borrowing fell for the first time in 17 years. This…