Dr Lance O’Sullivan - Ngati Maru, Te Rarawa, Nga Puhi Imagine if our ancestors had accelerated the adoption of the new technologies of the Europeans when they first arrived. It is true that they did so in some areas with examples of early adoption of trading and shipping practices and of course the use of [...]
Member NZ Maori Tourism | Full member Tourism Export Council | Member TIA | Qualmark endorsed Maori kapa haka headlining the launch of New Zealand Luxury Experiences at Monaco 2016. The Monaco Yacht Show (MYS) is an annual gathering of the most expensive superyachts in the world. More than four hundred vessels between 40m and [...]
Megan Douglas: My Story When I began working in television production almost twenty five years ago I had no idea where the journey would lead me. I was just glad to be working in an industry I loved. Over the years I worked in just about every role the industry offers; as a researcher/writer, reporter, [...]
A pioneering initiative that began in 2004 with “Taste of New Zealand” in HAWAII, was taken to Huntington Beach, CALIFORNIA in 2006, and followed by two consecutive Matariki “Taste of New Zealand” celebrations with Air New Zealand, called “Hangi in Koru". These celebrations took place at Los Angeles International Airport where the Air New Zealand Cultural [...]
J Unahi Contracting Limited is a local business providing an efficient and cost effective logging service to the rural sector in South Otago. Jade began working in the bush, gaining forestry qualifications along the way. This was an obvious career path having been brought up around forestry, with several of his whānau working and operating [...]
Smaller Māori businesses are stretching their nets to dozens of countries around the world as they come up with new ways to grow, Statistics New Zealand says. Tatauranga Umanga Maori 2016: Statistics on Māori businesses, released recently, looks at the performance of 660 small and medium-sized Māori businesses. Despite their relatively small individual size, the small [...]
Poutama hit the road early in 2016 and the pace hasn’t let up since. No sooner had the New Year begun and we were off on our first offshore market visit for the year. This was a whirlwind visit to North Asia that took in quick stops over 5 days to Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong and [...]
Poutama has teamed up with the Tribal Economies group at Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu to assist with the group’s kaupapa of enabling the development and growth of Ngai Tahu whanau and hapu businesses. We are pretty excited to be working with the Tribal Economies group as it offers the opportunity to do some testing on [...]
Poutama recently met up with Bob Collier from Health & Safety1 NZ Ltd. He returned home to live permanently in Aotearoa, November 2014. Bob had spent the last 9 years of fly in – fly out work from Whakatane into large construction projects for the oil, gas and mining sectors in Australia. The projects were typically [...]
THE GENTRY is a Maori owned corporate barbershop in Central Auckland. The business was created by Adrian Evans of Nga Puhi, Ngati Kahu, Te Aupouri descent after a long international career in hairdressing. By creating his own business Adrian now has the chance to offer an experience of luxury, and world class barbering here in New [...]
