1. Search Voyager to find any books and theses or dissertations on the industry 
With Voyager it is best to begin with a Guided keyword search rather than a Subject Heading search, unless you know the exact structure of the subject heading. For example, books and journals on the telecommunications industry may have any of the following subject headings:
telecommunication new zealand
telecommunication policy new zealand
telecommunication deregulation new zealand
telecommunication systems new zealand
A number of MIntBus research essays focus on New Zealand industries. Although these are usually displayed as part of a keyword search, an alternative search strategy is to type mintbus as a keyword in a Guided Keyword search on Voyager. This will display a chronological listing of all MIntBus research essays in an easily browseable form.
2. Industry news and articles
Journal and newspaper articles and news sites will give current information. Often they may be the only free sources of industry or product information, particularly market share. NOTE: University of Auckland enrolled students & teaching staff have access to the following databases.
- Newztext Plusis a database of New Zealand sourced information and has the full text of articles from daily newspapers, the New Zealand Herald, the National Business Review, the Independent, NZ Business, Marketing magazine plus several other business-related journals (usually 1993-). It does
not cover ‘academic’ journals. Most images, graphs and tables are omitted from articles. There is also the option for simultaneous searching of the Radio New Zealand news archives and Newzindex.
- Newzindex (part of Superindex if accessed via this link) indexes most of the titles covered by Newztext plus additional titles but does not give the full text of the article. It does not cover ‘academic’ journals but does cover a number of trade magazines including Grocers review, FMCG
and Apparel. Marketing students will find this a useful database for locating articles with market share information on products such as energy drinks, snack foods and grocery items. It also indexes some of the main trade publications including Trademark.
- Australia New Zealand Reference Centre has the full text of articles in North & South, Metro, NZ Management, NZ Herald and NZ business. Many of the articles are available as pdf files.
- Index New Zealand : INNZ indexes many of the newspapers and journals in Newztext and Newzindex but it is quite helpful to do a search on this database as it indexes ‘academic’ journals.
- Radio New Zealand news database is continuously updated and has the transcripts of all news stories since 1 January 1998. Pick up, for example, stories on industry association submissions to Parliamentary select committees on the topic of compliance costs in the wine industry. The
Radio New Zealand news database is also on the Newztext Plus database - use this option if you want to run your search through daily newspapers and the radio news at the same time.
- Factiva indexes and has the full text of a number of New Zealand publications including the daily newspapers, the Herald and the National Business Review. It is searchable by industry and it has company profiles.
- Geobase can be useful as it covers tourism, leisure and aviation. Note that it is an index only but in most cases the articles will be full text either on another database or the Library will have a print copy of the journal.
Searching the databases Proquest (which includes ABI/Inform), and Business Source Premier may find articles in international journals about New Zealand industries and find articles which give a global overview.
To search for particular New Zealand industries on Business Source
Premier use the Business Search Interface button on the Connect
page. This enables you to find industry first and then add country.
ScienceDirect and Emerald Management Extra may offer more specialised or 'academic' articles (for example articles on accidents in the New Zealand adventure tourism industry, and environmental management systems in the New Zealand plastics
industry)
Internet news sites, for example The New Zealand Herald, ONE news Business, and Scoop Business can give up-to-date information about industries and products.
Consult the new Guide Finding New Zealand business magazines and newspapers
3. Industry reports and overviews
Databases:
University of Auckland teaching staff and currently enrolled students have access to the following databases:
- Information technology case studies has some New Zealand focused research.
- The Global Market Information Database from Euromonitor gives access to information and statistics on consumer lifestyles, consumer market sizes, companies and brands, major market profiles, country data and market analysis. Use the Market Reports option to display a list of reports for
New Zealand (type zealand in the search box, tick the market reports option, and click a dot in the title option). For example there are recent reports for New Zealand on softdrinks, cosmetics and toiletries, hot drinks, pet food, OTC healthcare, and alcoholic drinks.
- The Market Information Digest from ACNielsen provides general trade and product category data for New Zealand. The information is mostly sourced from ACNielsen SCANTRACK. General trade information includes the retail trade by broad category (store numbers, house brands, retailer profiles,
with some data for Australia), and supermarket category trends. Product category information includes sales, segment of market, broad location of the market and the ranking of major brands.
- New Zealand Television Audience Measurement Online Ratings Reports
'A numeric estimate of the television viewing audience collected
from a representative sample of households ... Nielsen Media
Research Television Ratings represent the industry currency for
television audience measurement in New Zealand with a fully national
PeopleMeter panel of 500 households'
- TNS Regional & Industry Sector Reports
These can be searched or browsed. Reports available are for the freight, transport, communications, construction, education, energy, wholesale, government, hospitality, retail and finance sectors. The reports cover market size and growth, top organisations within the sector, trends, challenges and outlook, statistical information, and key association groups.
- TNS regional reports
is a collection of 40 regional reports for New Zealand covering demographics, business activity, economic conditions
- Hansard contains the weekly transcript of the debate in the House of Representatives. It also has the daily written and oral questions asked of ministers and members. Hansard can provide some industry information for example discussion around the restructuring of various industries. Recent
examples include the dairy industry (Dairy Industry Restructuring Bill), wine industry (Wine Bill) and the pip fruit industry. NOTE: alternative access for Hansard from 2003 onwards is via the website of the Office of the Clerk.
- The 2000New Zealand official year-book[S2/NZ STAy, Level M] is useful. It includes historical overviews of many industry sectors including aviation, banking, and telecommunications.
Internet sites:
- The Ministry of Economic Development has information, media releases, statistics and full text publications for broadcasting, electricity, energy, electronic commerce, telecommunications, SMEs, minerals, business and industry development, regional development, business law and trade.
- The New Zealand Trade & Enterprise site includes overviews of development by sector. Sectors include agritech & life science; biotechnology; creative industries; ICT; food & beverage; wood, building & interiors; niche manufacturing; education; services; Maori enterprise and industry capability
networks.
- The Market New Zealand.com website has industry overviews and reports under the Market Intelligence tab. Sectors covered are Animals, Agriculture, Horticulture; Building Products; Consumer Products; Education & Training; Engineering; Export Houses & Trading Companies; Food &
Beverage; Forestry & Wood Products; Health & Life Sciences; Marine; Multimedia, Publishing, Film, TV, Music; Plastic & Chemicals; Services; Software; Telecommunications & Electronics; Tourism and Wool, Leather, Clothing & Footwear. Success stories are also profiled.
- Investment New Zealand (part of NZTE) has case studies and information on biotechnology, creative industries, information and communications technology, food and beverage, specialised manufacturing, and wood processing.
- The New Zealand Business Migrant Liaison Unit has put together Industry sector links. These include links for agriculture, banks & finance, biotechnology, education, fashion & textiles, film & television, fisheries, forestry, franchises, horticulture, information technology, manufacturing,
mining, minerals & energy, organic farming, real estate, retail, science & technology, stock exchange, tourism & hospitality, transport and waste management.
- Kiwi careers will give industry overviews as well as information about the qualifications needed and training available for a wide range of industries.
- The New Zealand industries and regions (previously New Zealand industry outlook) [NZP 339.395 Q1a, Level G] from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research is a supplement to Quarterly
predictions. Sectors commented on are: agriculture, fishing, forestry & logging, textiles & apparel manufacturing, mining & quarrying, food, beverages & tobacco, wood & wood products, pulp & paper products, chemicals, non-metallic minerals, basic metals, machinery & other manufacturing, electricity, gas & water, construction, trade & accommodation,
transport & storage, communications, finance, property & business services, central & local government services, and health & education services. Sectors tend to be looked at in terms of past trends, current issues and future prospects and risks.
- The NZIER (New Zealand Institute of Economic Research) website includes a number of publications giving overviews on a variety of industries including biopharmaceuticals, creative industries, and fisheries.
- Industry sector analysis - New Zealand is hosted by Industry Canada with reports originally from STAT-USA. Industries covered include aerospace and defense, agribusiness, apparel and textiles, automotive and ground transportation, construction, building and heavy
equipment, consumer goods and home furnishings, energy and mining, health technologies, information and communication, security and safety, and services.
- ANZ Industry briefs are brief overviews of specific industries. There is an annual brief on the motor vehicle industry.
- In 1997 MoRST published a New
Zealand Knowledge Base Report Series providing 'an overview of the New Zealand science and technology knowledge base and associated capabilities'. Among those industries profiled are the agricultural sector, computers and communications, engineering, and medical and health sciences. They also published in 1998 a series of Public
good science fund reports covering industries such as dairying, forestry, manufacturing, tourism, communications, energy, and transport. The MoRST website has a number of collective links and documents on biotechnology research.
- FORST (Foundation for Research Science and Technology) has a number of publications online giving brief overviews of the types of innovation and development taking place within industry. Their associated website Technology New Zealand includes
tech reports.
- The MAF website has information on a variety of industries. Under the Statistics and Forecasts heading are the Farm Monitoring Reports (arable, dairy, deer, horticulture, sheep and beef) each of which includes sector
overviews, issues and trends, and financial factors, and the Sonzaf reports. Additional information is under the Statistics heading.
- Market research library from the US Commercial Service has industry sector reports for New Zealand for a variety of industries.
- The Ministry of Tourism site includes an overview of the industry plus a wide variety of statistical data. Additional sites include the Tourism Industry Association.
- New Zealand Commerce Commission decisions usually include overviews of particular industries although the access point is mostly through named companies involved in mergers and acquisitions.
- New
Zealand Health IT
Health IT cluster is an 'alliance of organisations interested in health IT, comprising software and solution
developers, consultants, health policy makers, health funders,
infrastructure companies, healthcare providers, and Academic
institutions...works directly with key government agencies and
industry stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health, ACC, New
Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Ministry of Research Science and
Technology and the Tertiary Education sector'
- Technological innovation in New Zealand has historical profiles of many major industries including the dairy industry, jet boats, Think Big, electric fencing, electricity transmission, and forestry.
- The New Zealand FoodWorks site has industry news articles, links to industry associations, retail grocery news, history of food, beverage & grocery including the history of 4 Square, and industry directory.
- The Ministry of Justice website has The nature and extent of the sex industry in New Zealand: an estimation by the Prostitution Law Review Committee, 2005 and The Sex industry in New Zealand : A literature review 2005.
- The Personal Care
Products Council (formerly the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance
Association) includes statistics on the industry in New Zealand.
- The Researched Medicines Industry has reports on the pharmaceuticals and biopharmaceuticals industry.
- For FDI information on investment in New Zealand industry see FDI information resources.
4. Company information
Click here for help finding New Zealand company information.
5. Associations and Industry Training Organisations
Google has links to .Industry training organisations
New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) Industry training organisations
The Tertiary Education Commission's list of Industry training organisations.
Business,
industry and professional associations list from Christchurch City
Libraries
6. Internet search engines
Search engines on the Internet which may be helpful include:
Te Puna web directory and Google scholar
7. Identify the ANZSIC code
Industry classifications are used 'for the collection, compilation and publication of statistics relating to industry...
'Businesses are assigned to an industry according to their predominant economic activity.'
The Australian and New Zealand standard industrial classification code (ANZSIC), is used for New Zealand industry
classifications. (ANZSIC print copies are shelved at S2/NZ BUSa, 1993 - 2006). Statistics New Zealand provide Business deomography tables for industry and demograhic data by ANZSIC code.( Also print copies of Business activity statistics from and including 1991 to 2000 are shelved at S2/NZ BUSa).
Prior to 1993 industries were classified according to Standard industrial classification, 1987. (Print copies are shelved at S2/NZ CLAi 1987).
There is no publicly available information which lists companies by their ANZSIC codes.
8. Statistics
A lot of information is not publicly available either because it is commercially sensitive or, in the case of statistics, because of the confidentiality guaranteed to businesses under the Statistics Act. Much in-depth statistical information is only available as tables from Statistics New Zealand, for which there may be a charge. For an overview of the type of
data available, and access to a variety of statistics see: New Zealand business demographic statistics 1997 to 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Business finance in New Zealand, 2004,
Economic survey of manufacturing, 2005 - 2007, 2008 - 2009
For a more complete list of industry topics see the Statistics New Zealand website.
The New Zealand official year-book (Shelved at S2/NZ STAy) is always a good place to begin to look for information. Included are chapters on manufacturing, forestry and fishing, overseas trade, and agriculture. Chapters include comment and some statistical information
Business deomography tables table builder has detailed type of industry data at regional and TLA level. Includes number of enterprises, FTE size groups and business size.
Business activity statistics was an annual publication from Statistics New Zealand up until 2000. It does not name companies or give any company-specific information. Tables of information usually include activity units and full-time equivalent persons engaged by industrial classification. Most figures are given at a national level only.
Industrial classification is at the 5 digit level. For example you can find the number of trading banks and the number of people employed by them. (Note that in some recent editions there is no 5 digit listing). At a sub-national level data is given at the regional council level for activity units by industrial classification at the broadest SIC level only. Financial statistics and brief
overview comment at a national level are also given for selected industries. Print copies are shelved at S2/NZ BUSa on Level M. Similar data is now found on the Business demography statistics on Statistics New Zealand's website.
Census of population and dwellings results (2006, 2001, 1996) (Print copies are shelved at S2/NZ CEN) can be helpful in that they list the numbers of people employed in industry groups. With recent census results
the printed information tends to be only given for the highest SIC level.
Key statistics (Shelved at S2/NZ STAm) is a monthly statistical title published by Statistics New Zealand. The data is also available in the New Zealand Time Series database. There is no data on production information by specific companies. Two sections to look in are Consumer expenditure and
Business activity.
See also Structural statistics for industry and services. This Data is available online for the University of Auckland community
through SourceOECD
For data on bilateral trade by industry see the Bilateral Trade Database for industrial analysis on SourceOECD. Data are annual from 1989 onwards.
OECD Science Technology and
Industry Scoreboard, although patchy for New Zealand, does include
data on R&D by industry, data on the ICT industry, labour
productivity growth by industry, value added by industry sector.
New Zealand television audience measurement online ratings report database is 'a numeric estimate of the television viewing audience
collected from a representative sample of households ... Nielsen Media
Research Television Ratings represent the industry currency for
television audience measurement in New Zealand with a fully national
PeopleMeter panel of 500 households'
For additional sources of data see NZSTATS - New Zealand
Statistics Sources
Historical statistics
The older the data the more detail is available in print form. Statistics in print form are shelved in the Statistics Collection on Level M. General guides to consult for information sources for historical studies include:
Guide to New Zealand official statistics [S2/NZ A1g 1955] and Catalogue of New Zealand statistics [S2/NZ A1c].
‘Statistics of factory production were collected in New Zealand from 1867 to 1916 in conjunction with the census - viz., in the years 1867,1871, 1874, 1878, and 1881, and quinquennially thereafter. Commencing in 1918-1919 the collection became an annual one. In 1921-22 the results were published for the first time in a separate statistical
report and similar publications have been issued annually...with the exception...when one volume covered two production years’
Baker, J.V.T. Government Statistician. ‘Preface‘ New Zealand statistics: Industrial production. 1956.
These statistics are found in:
Statistical report on the industrial manufactures of the Dominion of New Zealand for the year ... [S2/NZ IND]1921/22 to 1961/62 under slight variations in title. Continued by:
New Zealand industrial production. [S2/NZ IND] 1962/63 to 1973/74. Continued by:
Census of manufacturing. [S2/ IND] Vol. for 1976/77 also covers the years 1974/75 and 1975/76. Merged with: Annual census of gas, to form:
Economy wide census. Manufacturing. [S2/NZ IND] 1976/77 to1983/84. Continued as:
Economy wide census. Manufacturing. [S2/NZ IND] 1987. The data is not as detailed as in the previous publications. Although the ‘Introduction’ states ‘The Economy Wide Census will not be repeated until the
1991-92 financial year’, this 1987 census infact seems to be the last published of any detail.
Other important sources of data are:
Statistics of the Colony of New Zealand. [S2/NZ STAs] 1853-1907. Continued as
Statistics of the Dominion of New Zealand. [S2/NZ STAs] 1907-1920
Import, export, production data plus quite detailed listings of factory type by Provincial District and numbers employed.
Monthly abstract of statistics [S2/NZ STAm]. 1914-1989. This changed its title to Key Statistics in 1990. Up to and including August 1987 there is a more detailed breakdown of products. Production statistics are given, for example, for biscuits, ice cream, canned and bottled products (jam, fruit, peas, baked beans, sliced beans, canned
spaghetti, tomato soup, canned tomatoes, tomato sauce, worcester sauce, pickles), soap, soap powder, liquid detergents, lawnmowers, refrigerators, washing machines, clothes dryers, stoves, radios, television sets, gramophone records, cassette tapes, motor vehicles and itemised plastic products. In addition each issue contains various Appendices on a variety of topics. One topic regularly
covered is the racing and greyhound industry. To find which issue of the Monthly abstract this data is in look at the back of each issue to the section titled ‘Appendices’.
Bloomfield, G. T. New Zealand, a handbook of historical statistics. 1984. [S2/NZ STAh]. As well as giving selected tabular data, Bloomfield also lists other printed sources for information. He also gives an introductory overview for each topic, pointing out inconsistencies and omissions in data. Broad topics covered are agriculture, forest and
fisheries, minerals and energy, manufacturing, distribution and construction.
Trade
Check Statistics New Zealand's information page on Imports and exports Under Exports and imports tables there is data for trade by country of origin/destination by commodity, and for cargo by NZ port by country by commodity. The commodities are at the 2
digit HS level.
Key statistics [S2/NZ STAm] includes imports/export data. The data is also available in the New Zealand Time Series database. Detailed commodity trade data is available from Statistics New Zealand's database Infoshare
University of Auckland staff and students have access to SourceOECD and Comtrade which provide trade commodity data by partner country.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade website includes trade data. The New Zealand Trade & Enterprise site has export intelligence reports. The WTO
statistical database has annual time series data from 1980 onwards of bilateral flows by broad commodity plus a country snapshot of exports and imports. The International Trade Center (ITC) also has data for New Zealand.
Structural statistics for industry and services (previously Industrial structure statistics) has data on exports by industrial sector. There tends to be a 3 year time lag in the
data. Data is available online for the University of Auckland community through SourceOECD See also the OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2007 which includes trade data
by broad industry group.
Trade Codes
As with industries so too are commodities classified. New Zealand uses the New Zealand harmonised system classification (print edition is shelved at S2/NZ CLAth 2002).
See the United Nations for the Standard Industrial Classification Codes SITC codes.
Market share
Market share data is often difficult to find because of commercial confidentiality. Databases worth searching include:
- The Global Market Information Database [University of Auckland enrolled students & teaching staff access] from Euromonitor gives access to information and statistics on consumer market sizes, brands, major market profiles, and market analysis. Under Market Reports, call up reports by
country. For example there are recent reports for New Zealand on softdrinks, cosmetics and toiletries, hot drinks, pet food, OTC healthcare, and wine.
- The Market Information Digest [University of Auckland enrolled students & teaching staff access] from ACNielsen provides general trade and product category data for New Zealand. The information is mostly sourced from ACNielsen SCANTRACK.
General trade information includes the retail trade by broad category (store numbers, house brands, retailer profiles, with some data for Australia), and supermarket category trends. Product category information includes sales, segment of market, broad location of the market and the ranking of major brands.
- Newzindex indexes a number of trade magazines including Grocers review, FMCG and Apparel. It is a useful database for locating articles with market share information on products such as energy drinks, snack foods and grocery items. The database can also be
searched as part of Newztext plus
- ACNielsen have a number of Market insight reports including Consumer trends, Media trends and Grocery trends.
Patents, standards, trademarks
Doing business in New Zealand
Exporting and importing
To export from New Zealand see the following sites for information:
Starting to export guidesfrom New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
The 12 steps to exporting from BIZ
Export services from NZTE
Overseas market access requirements: wine 'The most significant OMARs for New Zealand wine exporters are those imposed by European Union'
New Zealand export and trade handbook (Voyager record)
For opportunities for New Zealand industries and businesses internationally see also country studies.
To import into New Zealand see Importing from BIZ.
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