Business financial data provides sales, purchases, salaries and wages, and operating profit estimates for most market industries in New Zealand, and information on stocks for selected industries. This collection uses a combination of survey, tax, and other administrative data.
We have updated the seasonal adjustment methodology used for business financial data in line with best practice. This impacts seasonally adjusted data for all quarters back to June 2016.
Update to seasonal adjustment methodology for business financial data has more information.
| Industry | Value | Volume |
| Meat and dairy products | 330032000 | 69195000 |
| "Chemical | 100411000 | 64021000 |
| polymer | 48318000 | 4394000 |
| and rubber products" | 1057000 | 496000 |
| "Transport equipment | -1679000 | -1394000 |
| machinery and equipment" | -11915000 | -6427000 |
| Petroleum and coal products | -11009000 | -8999000 |
| Printing | -24336000 | -23036000 |
| Seafood processing | -14706000 | -26861000 |
| Furniture and other manufacturing | -37064000 | -41863000 |
| Non-metallic mineral products | -79274000 | -82203000 |
| "Fruit | -217111000 | -111939000 |
| oil | -125650000 | -129211000 |
| cereal | ||
| and other food" | ||
| Wood and paper products | ||
| "Textile | ||
| leather | ||
| clothing | ||
| and footwear" | ||
| Metal products | ||
| Beverage and tobacco products |
In actual terms, the volume of finished goods stocks (not seasonally adjusted) for total manufacturing rose 4.4 percent ($389 million) in the September 2024 quarter compared with the September 2023 quarter.
In actual terms, total manufacturing purchases fell $124 million (0.6 percent), and salaries and wages rose $52 million (1.1 percent) compared with the September 2023 quarter.
More manufacturing data can be found under Download data, or on Infoshare (under Industry sectors, Manufacturing Survey (ANZSIC06) - MFG).
Wholesale trade
When adjusted for seasonal effects, the total value of wholesale trade sales fell 1.2 percent ($457 million) in the September 2024 quarter, following a 1.3 percent ($503 million) fall in the June 2024 quarter.
| Industry | Value |
| Other goods wholesaling | 143263000 |
| Machinery and equipment wholesaling | 48777000 |
| Commission-based wholesaling | 7406000 |
| Motor vehicle and motor-vehicle parts wholesaling | -75198000 |
| "Grocery | -134528000 |
| liquor | -446476000 |
| and tobacco product wholesaling" | |
| Basic material wholesaling |
More data
Use Infoshare to access time-series data for this release.
All series are found under the Subject category: Industry sectors.
Business financial data:
Group: Business Data Collection - BDC
Manufacturing data:
Group: Manufacturing survey (ANZSIC06) - MFG
Wholesale trade data:
Group: Wholesale trade survey - WTS
Selected services data:
Group: Selected services survey (ANZSIC06) - SSS
Definitions and metadata
Business financial data collection - DataInfo+ gives the methodology and background information used in this release.
Economic survey of manufacturing data collection - DataInfo+ gives the methodology and background information used in this release.
Wholesale trade survey data collection - DataInfo+ gives the methodology and background information used in this release.
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Next release
Business financial data: December 2024 quarter will be released on 11 March 2025.
