The University of Waikato,established in 1964,is a public research university located in Hamilton,New Zealand. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university performs research in numerous disciplines such as education,social sciences,and management and is an innovator in environmental science,marine and freshwater ecology,engineering and computer science. It offers degrees in health,engineering,computer science,management,Māori and Indigenous Studies,the arts,psychology,social sciences and education.
Countdown was an Australian-owned New Zealand full-service supermarket chain and subsidiary of Woolworths New Zealand,itself a subsidiary of Australia's Woolworths Group. It is one of two supermarket chains in New Zealand,the other being Foodstuffs.
Woolworths Group Limited is an Australian multinational retail and finance company,primarily known for the operation of its retail chain Woolworths Supermarkets across Australia,Woolworths in New Zealand and its discount department store Big W. Headquartered in Bella Vista,Sydney,it is the largest company in Australia by revenue and number of employees,and the second-largest in New Zealand.
Sky Network Television Limited,more commonly known as Sky,is a New Zealand broadcasting company that provides pay television services via satellite,media streaming services,and broadband internet services. As of 31 December 2022,Sky had 1,023,378 residential television subscribers consisting of 517,003 satellite subscribers and 506,375 streaming subscribers. Additionally,Sky had 23,156 broadband customers. Despite the similarity of name,branding and services,such as Sky Go and MySky shared with its European equivalent,Sky Group,there is no connection between the companies.
Sam's West,Inc. is an American chain of membership-only warehouse club retail stores owned and operated by Walmart Inc.,founded in 1983 and named after Walmart founder Sam Walton as Sam's Wholesale Club. As of January 31,2019,Sam's Club ranks second in sales volume among warehouse clubs with $84.3 billion in sales,behind its main rival Costco Wholesale.
SkyCity Entertainment Group is a gambling and entertainment company based in Auckland,New Zealand. It owns and operates five casino properties in New Zealand and Australia,which include restaurants and bars,three hotels,a convention centre and Auckland's Sky Tower.
Stuff Ltd is a privately held news media company operating in New Zealand. It operates Stuff,the country's largest news website,and owns nine daily newspapers,including New Zealand's second and third-highest circulation daily newspapers,The Post and The Press,and the highest circulation weekly,Sunday Star-Times. Magazines published include TV Guide,New Zealand's top-selling weekly magazine. Stuff also owns social media network Neighbourly.
Woolworths is an Australian-owned New Zealand full-service supermarket chain and subsidiary of Woolworths New Zealand,itself a subsidiary of Australia's Woolworths Group. Previously known as Countdown,the business is currently in the process of rebranding all stores as Woolworths.
Hillcrest High School is a state coeducational secondary school located in south-eastern Hamilton,New Zealand. The school is named after the suburb of Hillcrest for which it serves,although the school itself is actually located in Silverdale. Opened in 1972,the school has a roll of 1728 students as of August 2024. making it the second-largest school in Hamilton.
St John's College is a state-integrated Catholic boys' secondary school in Hamilton,New Zealand,with a school roll of 952 as of August 2024. The school was established by the Marist Brothers in 1961 from Marist School. The school crest features the eagle of St. John the Apostle,with the motto "Caritas Christi Urget Nos" strewn across the bottom,a Latin motto translating loosely into "Christ's love urges us on". The mission statement for the school is "Preparing Young Men For Life".
The history of Air New Zealand,the national carrier of New Zealand,began when the amalgamated East Coast Airways and Cook Strait Airways began operations in January 1936 as Union Airways of New Zealand,the country's first major airline. Union Airways was the sole New Zealand aviation partner in Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL),which made its inaugural flight in 1940. The New Zealand Government bought full ownership of TEAL in 1961 and the airline was renamed Air New Zealand in 1965. New Zealand's domestic airline,National Airways Corporation (NAC),was merged with Air New Zealand in 1978. Air New Zealand was privatised in 1989 but in 2001 the New Zealand Government took up 80% ownership in return for injecting $885 million after the airline ran into financial difficulty. In November 2013,the National government sold down its share in Air New Zealand from 73% to 53% as part of its controversial asset sales programme.
St. John's College is a State Integrated,Catholic,Day School for boys,located in Hastings,a provincial city in Hawkes Bay,New Zealand.
2degrees is a New Zealand full service telecommunications provider. It's the third-largest wireless carrier in New Zealand,with 1.3 million subscribers as of July 2015. Since launching its mobile network,2degrees broke up the New Zealand mobile duopoly halving the price of Prepay overnight. 2degrees offers services across mobile,broadband,business and power.
Kieran Foran is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who plays as a five-eighth or halfback for the Gold Coast Titans in the National Rugby League (NRL) and New Zealand at international level.
Christopher Mark Luxon is a New Zealand politician and former business executive who has been serving as the 42nd prime minister of New Zealand since 2023,previously as leader of the Opposition from 2021 to 2023,and as leader of the National Party since 2021. He has been member of Parliament (MP) for Botany since 2020. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Air New Zealand from 2012 to 2019.
Jacob Max Bezzant is a former political candidate for the New Zealand National Party and a former CEO of Parking Sense.
John Furner is an American business executive. He is president and CEO of Walmart U.S. Previously,he led Walmart's Sam's Club subsidiary.
The global COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the New Zealand economy. New Zealand has a mixed economy –a free market with some state ownership and control. In mid-March 2020,the New Zealand Government imposed a four-tier alert level system,which placed much of the country's economy into lockdown with the exception of "essential services" such as supermarkets. Due to the success of the Government's elimination strategy,lockdown restrictions on various economic activities were progressively lifted between April and June 2020.
LiquorLand is a franchise of independently owned bottle shops around New Zealand,operated by Foodstuffs. LiquorLand is part of the Fly Buys and Airpoints loyalty schemes.
This page lists candidates contesting electorates in the 2023 New Zealand general election.
