Interactive TV
Research in the UK and the US estimates that a person spends
nearly a quarter of their waking hours in front of a television.
With the arrival of interactive television viewers now have the
opportunity to involve themselves without ever leaving their
armchairs. Dominic Laval of the Irish-based company Emuse
Absolutely tells ASB Business the implications for the advertising
industry and about his company's deal with Sky TV.
Whisky
The origins of bruichladdie single malt whisky go back to 1881.
Based on the island of Islay in northwest Scotland, the distillery
ended up in the hands of the Jim Beam company which closed it down
in 1994. But a group of investors revived it five years ago and it
is now producing 60,000 cases a year. Michael Wilson asked the
company's master distiller, Jim McEwan, about the market for
whiskey and the importance of the special peat flavour.
Fashion Week
Westpac is one of the key sponsors of New Zealand Fashion Week and
close on 1,000 New Zealand businesses operating in the fashion
industry are clients. As the "first bank of New Zealand fashion"
they are staging a unique show on Saturday night where five of the
industry's top designers come together under the "red
collection."
Morning markets
Mark Benseman of ABN Amro with the morning markets.
