Nau mai, haere mai! Please join the team for their last breakfast hui for 2024!! 🗓 Date: Friday, 6 December ⏰ Time: 8.00am- 9.00am 📍 Venue: Taste Nature, High Street, Dunedin Please join KUMA for an informal monthly gathering of KUMA members and business owners, to exchange updates on what's happening with your business and [...]
Kai & Kōrero - Ōtepoti, Dunedin Join the team for breakfast at the University of Otago, hosted by the Otago Business School. 🗓 Date: Friday, 8 November ⏰ Time: 7.30am- 8.30am 📍 Venue: Otago Business School, Union Street East, Dunedin 📍 Enter via main doors, up the wide staircase to Level 1 🍽️ Kai: a light breakfast will be [...]
Written by Alisha McLennan, The Beacon WAI Manuka is ready to test the market in Tokyo after receiving positive feedback while featuring at the international food and beverage festival J-FEX. Chief executive of Wai Manuka, Joe Harawira, was selected as one of six New Zealand brands to travel to Tokyo and demonstrate Mãori entrepreneurial businesses [...]
Take your business from Survive to Thrive with the NZFIN Food & Beverage Accelerator It’s a tough environment out there right now. If you’re the founder of a food or beverage brand, chances are you’re in survival mode and cash is tighter than ever before. You need to make sure that every cent you’re spending [...]
Aotearoa’s favourite food and fibre sector summit is headed to Manawatū next month. E Tipu: The Boma Agri Summit brings together remarkable speakers and changemakers to share mind-blowing insights, ignite vital conversations, and help shape the future of Aotearoa’s primary industries. E Tipu is a truly hybrid event that walks its talk — offering a [...]
The indigenous reimagining of wine in Aotearoa New Zealand In a recent article on the International Wine and Spirit Competition Club Oenologique's website, there is a thoughtful piece written by Chris Howard on how the Aotearoa New Zealand's wine industry is recognising Māori, our language and culture, and how it is changing the industry and [...]
Nick Smith - Ngāti Kahungunu Chur Bol BBQ was started by Nick Smith in 2022 initially as a food cart business. They provide catering for special occasions and they attend festivals and concerts selling their low and slow food products. Within a short period of time, they moved into the retail market and have recently [...]
Raniera Rewiri - Whakatōhea, Te Arawa Raniera was born and bred in his slice of paradise of Whakatane and currently lives in Ōhope with his beautiful wife and their baby boy. He is hugely passionate about personal development, health and wellbeing, business, and his identity as Māori. His company Tupuānuku started in 2018 in the [...]
Froth Technologies is disrupting the brewing supplies industry in Aotearoa by localising the supply of brewing yeast available to brewers. Co-founders Simon Cooke of Ngāi Tahu descent and his business partner Ryan Carville, both passionate brewers, were looking for ways to offer something unique to the NZ craft brewing industry. In 2018 they took a [...]
The Asia New Zealand Foundation - Te Whītau Tūhono is offering up to 10 places for emerging Māori business leaders to be part of a bespoke Māori Food & Beverage business delegation travelling to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand from 18-28 May 2023. This is an opportunity to join a Foundation-led delegation to learn about the [...]
