{"id":469325,"date":"2026-06-10T01:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469325\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:05:09","slug":"christchurch-businesses-show-resilience-amid-national-gloom-2degrees-shaping-business-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469325\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch businesses show resilience amid national gloom – 2degrees Shaping Business Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile, 49% of Christchurch businesses surveyed said they had introduced a new product or service in the last year, compared with 38% nationally. <\/p>\n

The report suggested businesses were investing in their future rather than simply managing the present.<\/p>\n

Just 2% reported being less productive than they were a year ago, compared with 12% nationally. <\/p>\n

However, overall, the research showed an increasing number of New Zealand businesses appear to be giving up on a return to \u201cnormal\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among businesses feeling more optimistic than last year, 21% cited being back to normal or better after the Covid pandemic as a reason, down from 36% in last year\u2019s survey.<\/p>\n

2degrees CEO Mark Callander said a clear theme he took out of the survey was that businesses were no longer waiting for a rebound.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one\u2019s waiting for green shoots to emerge any more.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were kind of joking [earlier] about \u2018thrive to 25\u2019, you know that seems like two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stay ahead with the latest market moves, corporate updates, and economic insights by subscribing to our Business newsletter<\/a> \u2013 your essential weekly round-up of all the business news you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, 49% of Christchurch businesses surveyed said they had introduced a new product or service in the last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[36297,3225,534,138,10166,4487,10668,219,1872,14767,3025,3556,111,139,69,13120,12879,67279,1305,383,8822,5619,16570],"class_list":["post-469325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-2degrees","tag-according","tag-amid","tag-business","tag-businesses","tag-christchurch","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-face","tag-gloom","tag-most","tag-national","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-remain","tag-resilience","tag-shaping","tag-show","tag-study","tag-survey","tag-uncertainty","tag-upbeat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}