Missy Armstrong - Poutama Business Adviser "Nāku te rourou, nāu te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi...With your basket and my basket, the people will thrive". I feel this whakataukī best sums up what we aim to achieve with CL2IMB – Collaborative Leadership 2 Inspire Māori Business. 6 locations, 347 registrations, 260 attendees, 53 presentations [...]
By Sam & Anastasia Bennett – Te Arawa Our story started back in 2010 when Sam and I met at an Auckland MMA gym. We were both training hard, competing in this sport and loved our community. In 2011 we moved to Wellington to pursue Sam’s career as a public servant. Although both of us [...]
Jarrad & Belinda McKay - Ngāti Mahuta Pūhā & Pākehā started in 2014 when Belinda and Jarrad saw an opportunity to reconnect people with the kai of Aotearoa. Traditional Māori kai was largely overlooked by the public but with the injection of new cooking styles and modern flavours, people would have a reason to give [...]
By Clint & Tracey Lockwood - Te Arawa Who we are... Create + Construct is a boutique building company based in Auckland. As a registered Master builder, we build and renovate beautiful homes. Whether it's a new build with a complexity of modern materials and finishes, or renovating a heritage home. As a husband and [...]
This article segues nicely with the previous article by long time Poutama client, Garry Sommerville...and it is a long time...Garry has been a Poutama client for close on 30 years. We well remember when he first took his hot sauce, Kaitaia Fire, to the USA and won a hot sauce competition there. His article shows [...]
"FEAR AND POUTAMA IN LAS VEGAS" Garry Sommerville - Ngāpuhi "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold". (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson) Great first line for a novel, but in our case, not quite true, as the drugs had been [...]
Area BDM – Te Tairawhiti (Gisborne, Wairoa, Hawkes Bay) or Te Tai Hauauru (Taranaki, Manawatu, Whanganui) Are you passionate about Te Ao Māori? Would you like to add value to Westpac's relationships with Iwi and Māori? Westpac have a superb opportunity for an Area Business Development Manager looking to make a significant contribution to their [...]
ANZ Food & Agri Tourism Report - By Rob Simcic New Zealand has a thriving food and beverage sector and a booming tourism industry and while we have much to be proud of, more can be done to connect the two and realise the opportunities this brings. Our research reveals that over 60% of international travellers [...]
Company Profile: At Vaka Interactiv we live in the future of cultural storytelling tech. For us, it’s all about deep impact and high engagement - creating tech products that enable people to gain sight into a culture other than their own. Culture Lens is the worlds first cultural storytelling portrait that allows people to engage with the storytellers themselves. Its [...]
Vaka Interactiv is a New Zealand owned tech company formed in 2016 with a vision to connect people to culture through deep, engaging and magical storytelling. The company is currently run by three co-founders, Jesse Armstrong, Andrea Fua and Jaemen Busby who are all of Māori and Pacific descent. Initially from South Auckland, the team [...]
