Breaking new ground
10/05/12 •
There are advantages and disadvantages to setting up a business in an emerging industry – there’s not as much competition, but people also don’t have a clue what you do. As a design services business in Hamilton, Divergent is discovering and dealing with both sides of the coin.
Balancing act
10/05/12 •
Michelin star chef and Masterchef NZ judge Josh Emett is living with one foot in England and the other in New Zealand, while he opens a new restaurant in Queenstown and launches a new meat product range. Balancing his work and family lives has been a learning experience.
The benefits of difference
09/05/12 •
Diversity may have become a bit of a trendy buzzword, but that doesn’t make the theory behind it any less valid. An increasing number of studies are showing that a variety of voices in all areas of business can have a direct effect on creating successful, enduring businesses. Gender disparity is just the start.
Circle of trust
09/05/12 •
Trust is a fragile component of any relationship but, as Gordon Chesterman points out, when millions of dollars and the fate of an organisation or company is at stake it takes on a whole new level of importance.
Beyond the numbers
08/05/12 •
Founded in a family garage in 1984, Prolife Foods now turns over $100 million and is still focused on its original business purpose and ethics while employing 500 people.
Beautiful mind
07/02/12 •
Sir Ray Avery may not have been born in New Zealand, but his expertise and investment has done much to change the country’s business landscape for the better. The perfect inversion of the brain drain: talent in, product out.
From the outside in
07/02/12 •
We are constantly being reminded of New Zealand’s “brain drain”, but the country’s lucrative “brain gain” via international students gets much less publicity than it deserves.
A new era of incubation
02/02/12 •
Fresh from meeting the world’s top business incubation experts, NZTE’s Richard White writes that investing in incubators will create a legacy of a more dynamic economy.
Know your velocity
02/02/12 •
Moving Torpedo7’s operations overseas may have been tempting, but the company is now committed to substantial growth at home in Hamilton.
From the desk of… Ora
31/01/12 •
Four years ago, three sisters set out to create a uniquely Māori range of lotions and creams. Based at Hamilton’s SODA Inc, the Ora product range is now available nationwide.
Go forth, young entrepreneur
31/01/12 •
“Buggering off” is only a bad thing if we let it be, according to communications and PR expert Brian Sweeney.
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