What makes you tick                                   Illustration/Weef  

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Wednesday 9 November 2016Last updated: 1535_____________________________________

-  Mercer To Buy automation firm Haden & Custance for $2.25m

-  Mainfreight first-half profit rises 27%, meeting guidance,    as margins widen, Europe picks up

-  Vegetable industry joins GIA partnership

-  NZ Binxi offers to buy all of Blue Sky

-  Genetics and the vote

-  All jobs proposed to go at Christchurch-based cablemaker

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-  The best minds are not in government. If any were, business     would hire them right away.        -   Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)

-  New Zealand's population is now 269,388 short     of 5 million