Scented candle and skin-care products maker Ecoya has beaten its forecast annual sales by 10%.

The country's best known cocktail king has mixed with a local skincare company to conquer the world of beauty.

Listed company Ecoya – headed by Geoff Ross - has just bought 100% of Trilogy Natural Products for $10 million up front and will shell out up to $10 million of an additional earn out payment consisted of 50% paid in cash and 50% in Ecoya shares issued at $1 each.

The new shape of 2degrees
Trilogy International Partners (US): 57%
CVP (UK): 28%
Hautaki Trust (NZ): 13%
KLR Holdings (Hong Kong): 2%

US telecommunications investment company Trilogy International Partners has been cleared to take a 100% stake in 2degrees, should it want to take up.

The Overseas Investment Office (OIO) released details of its green-light decision today.

Above: a switching centre owned by Haitian mobile phone company Voila is miraculously unscathed after the January 13 quake.

Trilogy International Partners chairman John Stanton said today that five of 575 employees of his company’s Haitian mobile phone company, Voila, are confirmed dead after the January 13 earthquake.

A further 51 are missing.