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 [...]
Kristen Harper, Ngai Tahu My name is Kristin Harper of Ngai Tahu decent originally from Canterbury now living in Auckland (and no I do not support the Blues!) My Entrepreneurial Journey started about 4 years ago when I started Sales Blueprint which is a Consultancy that assists my clients to grow their business especially in the [...]
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 [...]
It may come at no surprise that country of origin is a key driver of consumer preference and that consumers around the world increasingly want to know the story behind the product. But how do you do that in an authentic way? And how do you start to piece it all together? That’s where the NZ [...]
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 [...]
Callaghan Innovation's purpose is to help New Zealand business to succeed through technology. The Maori Economy is seen as an integral part of the New Zealand Economy and the Callaghan Maori Economy team has a number of initiatives that it implements to assist Maori businesses to be more innovative and successful through technology. Maori Economy Team [...]
Oh what a thrill it is to see your business featured on screen and to hear its name up there on the television. Even if it is only a paid advertisement, just knowing that your name and business is blowing unannounced into 95% of the homes in this country (or at least those that don’t mute [...]
TOA, Tamaki Makaurau Office Architecture, is about Strength, Bravery and Cutting New Ground. Nicholas Dalton is an NZRAB Registered Architect, Founding Director of TOA Architects and leads the design and delivery of all projects at TOA. Nicholas has a passion to produce great architecture that relates specifically to the local environmental and cultural qualities of the [...]
