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.
In actual terms, the volume of finished goods stocks for total manufacturing rose 4.1 percent ($427 million) in the March 2025 quarter compared with the March 2024 quarter.
In actual terms, total manufacturing purchases rose $2.8 billion (12 percent), and salaries and wages fell $38 million (0.8 percent) compared with the March 2024 quarter.
More seasonally adjusted 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 rose 3.2 percent ($1.2 billion) in the March 2025 quarter, following a 0.6 percent ($232 million) rise in the December 2024 quarter.
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
Economic survey of manufacturing data collection - DataInfo+ gives the methodology and background information used in this release.
Wholesale trade survey
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: June 2025 quarter will be released on 9 September 2025.
