Entrepreneurs Rod Drury (top) and Selwyn Pellett (below), were today named as this year’s recipients of the Tait Radio Communications’ Flying Kiwi Awards at a breakfast in Wellington.

New Zealand fleet management and vehicle-tracking company Imarda expects a jump in revenue and profit for the first half of 2009 - in part thanks to a big FedEx deal - and says it saw a lift in confidence in the global transportation sector during Q2 after a Q1 decline.

The privately-held Imarda said it is on track to register a big lift in revenue and profit for the first half of 2009.

Fisher & Paykel Appliances is a victim of a volatile exchange rate that harms all exporters, says a group advocating change to New Zealand’s monetary policy.

The Productive Economy Council, founded by trustees of the Hi Growth Project, says that the high-profile company’s struggles reflect the problems other exporters face every day.