Reni Wereta-Gargiulo (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru Kītahi, Te Āti Awa) from Kiwi Kai Nelson won the Supreme Award at this year’s MWDI Māori Businesswoman Awards 2022. Reni has a diverse background in marketing, promotion, business administration and tourism. Entrepreneurial skills inherited from ancestors on her mother’s side (O’Carroll) coupled with her Māori values and heritage [...]
Poutama was proud to partner with Māori Women’s Development Inc. and sponsor the recent MWDI Māori Businesswoman Awards held in Tāmaki Makaurau on Friday 29 July 2022. The annual Awards celebrate and recognise all wāhine Māori in business. This year’s event received over 70 entries, across eight regional and business excellence categories through various disciplines [...]
The EMA (Employers and Manufacturers Association) and Poutama continue to deliver the FREE ‘Poutama Tangata’ group HR coaching programme to small & medium sized Māori businesses across Aotearoa. The programme has an open door policy where you can join at any time. Best suited to business owners, managers, and staff responsible for: workplace contracts, policies [...]
What’s a Business Mentor and how can they help your business? New Zealand Business Mentors has over 1800 Mentors nationwide with a wide range of expertise that supports business owners to grow and navigate challenges. If you’re looking to learn from someone who has walked in your shoes, download the eBook on getting support from a [...]
Released last week, this report looks at the makeup of more than 23,000 Māori businesses and 38,000 sole traders across Aotearoa. The report finds almost 40 percent of Māori-owned businesses have wāhine Māori as owners. From Poutama’s perspective, this report can help the government and other organisations like Poutama to better understand and support wāhine, [...]
Picture: From left Rhonda Kite, Co.OfWomen founder Tara Lorigan, with the other inductees Frances Valintine and Maxine Simmons. Photo credit/One-image Photography Rhonda Kite (Te Aupōuri, Ngāi Tākoto, Ngāti Kuri) is a true entrepreneur who has focused her career on the future of creative labour, skills, and technologies. Her three-decade-long voyage of exploration into the realm [...]
Earlier this month, the Prime Minister led a trade mission including over 30 Aotearoa New Zealand businesses to Melbourne and Sydney. A couple of the Māori businesses on the mission are clients that Poutama has proudly supported to help grow their business. We had the chance to catch-up with one of these businesses on the [...]
Poutama is proud to be partnering with Māori Women’s Development Inc. to support the Awards. The Awards celebrate and recognise all wāhine Māori in business. There are several Business Awards, eight Regional Awards with one Premier Award. This year, we’re privileged to be sponsoring the Innovation Business Award. We’re proud to see several of our [...]
From 7-8 July, Poutama participated in the 14th Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum (ANZLF) in Sydney. The central theme was the great acceleration of trends arising from the pandemic and how Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand can emerge from global disruptions stronger together. The Forum, was attended by 15 Ministers and over 300 business leaders [...]
On 30 June, a significant milestone was reached for Māori after Aotearoa New Zealand and the European Union concluded negotiations on a high quality, inclusive free trade agreement (FTA). The full FTA will be released in the weeks ahead, and is expected to be signed in 2023. The agreement includes a ‘Māori Trade and Economic [...]
