Business

About New Zealand Business

There were 470,050 business enterprises in New Zealand in 2011, according to Statistics New Zealand.
Most businesses in New Zealand are small to medium sized with 1-100 employees.
The total number of employees of those 470,000 businesses is 1.91 million employees, up 0.4 percent on 2010.

Rental, hiring, and real estate services remained the largest industry with one-fifth of all enterprises.

The manufacturing industry continued to be the largest employer (225,300 employees), but this number was down 1.3 percent.

The Auckland region (which has the same geographic boundaries as the Auckland Council) had 32 percent of all business locations and 33 percent of all paid employees.