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Coastbound Construction

2022-05-10T21:20:22+12:00May 10th, 2022|Business, Creative, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle, Trades|

Poutama is proud to support Māori owned and operated Coastbound Construction. The construction and building services company is owned by Dylan McPhee (Director and Builder) and Kaea Williams (Partner and Accounts Manager).  Based in Opotiki, Coastbound operates through the East Coast – as far as Cape Runaway and as North as Matatā.  The business partners [...]

ANZ ‘Māori in business’ Series

2022-04-20T21:39:17+12:00April 20th, 2022|Business, Education, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle|

ANZ invites Māori business owners, start-ups, SMEs to their second webinar focused on how to create an effective business plan. A good business plan can make a huge difference to your mahi.  In this workshop you’ll learn how to create an effective plan – and how to use it to make your business fly, including: [...]

Findex Tradies Academy

2022-05-10T21:18:43+12:00April 20th, 2022|Business, Education, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle, Trades|

Our partner, Findex has developed a performance improvement programme specifically targeted for tradies wanting to grow a profitable and sustainable business.  At the moment, Findex is offering this programme on a 1-1 basis, and is looking to develop a 1-many workshop. There is a short three minute video that gives a brief overview of the [...]

The Māori Economy – Part 2

2022-04-20T21:40:06+12:00April 20th, 2022|Business, Creative, Digital, Education, Export, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle, Science|

In February, Newsroom begins a six-part video series on the Māori economy – a series of video stories looking at the Māori economy, now a $70 billion sector. This documentary takes a look into how the Māori Economy works, what drives it and makes it – and the businesses that operate within it. The series [...]

Ka Hao Business Profile – Whenua Honey

2022-04-20T21:40:17+12:00April 20th, 2022|Business, Digital, Education, Honey, Innovation, Lifestyle, Science|

Te Whare Hukahuka & Poutama Trust Are Proud To Join Forces Poutama is supporting The Ka Hao i te Ao Programme – an e-commerce training programme offered to Māori business owners. Poutama will offer a $10k grant to the business that tops the programme. This funding is to be used to purchase products/services that will [...]

Marsden Cove Dental Clinic

2022-04-20T21:40:28+12:00April 20th, 2022|Business, Education, Innovation, Lifestyle, Science|

Ngareka Bensemann, Ngāi Tahu Based in One Tree Point, Whangārei, Marsden Cove Dental (MCD) have a beautiful and modern clinic servicing the wider Bream Bay community (south-east of Whangārei).  Establishing a clinic in this area has meant local residents no longer need to travel into Whangārei for their dental needs, and MCD have set their [...]

The Sky-high cost of living explained

2022-04-05T21:36:12+12:00April 5th, 2022|Business, Education, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle|

Our partner BERL, provides useful insights about the global and domestic economy, as well as the world we currently live in. Recently, they shared an article to help provide some context to the sharp and swift increase in food, transport and rental prices, and help us understand why this is happening in Aotearoa.  You can [...]

Pledge Me

2022-04-05T21:36:23+12:00April 5th, 2022|Business, Digital, Education, Innovation, Investment, Iwi|

Our partner, Pledge Me are offering crowdfunding workshops and online training courses to those who might be interested in preparing an equity/capital raising campaign.  A number of Māori entities (community groups and businesses) have successfully used the Pledge Me platform to launch their respective campaigns. The CrowdfundingU Lite Programme can either be taken as a [...]

Virtual Hui for a kōrero about Māori interests in the recently signed NZ-UK FTA

2022-04-05T21:36:33+12:00April 5th, 2022|Business, Education, Export, Innovation, Investment, Iwi|

On 11 April, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Trade and Export Growth (Māori Trade), Rino Tirikatene, will deliver opening remarks, followed by remarks by Treaty partner representative groups involved in the NZ-UK FTA process.  This will be followed by a Q&A session for attendees. This event will be an opportunity to discuss the NZ-UK FTA as it [...]

The Māori Economy

2022-04-05T21:37:19+12:00April 5th, 2022|Business, Creative, Digital, Education, Export, Innovation, Investment, Iwi, Lifestyle, Science|

In February, Newsroom began a six-part video series on the Māori economy – a series of video stories looking at the Māori economy which is now a $70 billion sector. This documentary takes a look into how the Māori Economy works, what drives it and makes it – and the businesses that operate within it. [...]

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