Last week, Aotearoa New Zealand and the United Kingdom signed the NZ-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Concluding this Agreement is a significant achievement for Māori exporters, opening market access opportunities into the world’s fifth largest economy. The agreement enables exporters to compete on a level playing field with other countries that already have FTAs with the [...]
Aotearoa’s largest exporters conference ‘Go Global’ is back and bigger than ever! Join for a day of networking, connecting, and hearing the bold and daring stories of like-minded exporters, importers and manufacturers as they take their products and services global. To pre-register your interest ahead of the official launch, please click here. [...]
The Icehouse delivered programme is a residential programme specially created for high-calibre business owners. The businesses should have more than 15 full-time employees and $3million+ in revenue. The programme is for those who want to develop a better awareness of what drives business growth, and understand how analysis and fine-tuning can solve business problems. More [...]
Poutama is proud to support Ruatoria Pies, a pie manufacturing business based in the Waiapu Valley of the Gisborne region. Ruatoria Pies are a whānau oriented business, owned and operated by Bobbie Morice and Pakanui Webb. Almost all of their employees have a whānau connection to Bobbie or Pakanui. The business has been in Bobbie’s [...]
Are you a Māori Professional interested in expanding your professional networks into Canada? If so, enrol in Indigi-X, a free 6-week virtual indigenous professional exchange. The first intake runs from 18 February to 1 April 2022 for two hours each Friday. There are 8 spots remaining for Māori participants. Find out more and register here. [...]
Do you want to grow your business, quickly? Are you keen to develop your team and build on your capabilities as founders? Kōkiri could be the right kaupapa for you and your start-up team. Kōkiri is a 10-week kaupapa Māori programme that supports and accelerates the development of early-stage impact positive start-ups into investment-ready ventures. [...]
The EMA (Employers and Manufacturers Association) and Poutama continue to deliver the 12-month ‘Poutama Tangata’ group coaching programme to small & medium sized Māori businesses across Aotearoa. The programme is FREE and available to Māori SMEs seeking guidance with their ‘people’ needs and requirements: Focusing on tools and techniques to help lead your people Creating [...]
The EMA (Employers and Manufacturers Association), and Poutama will continue to deliver the 12-month ‘Poutama Tangata’ group coaching programme in the new year to small & medium sized Māori businesses (SMEs) across Aotearoa. The programme is FREE and available to Māori SMEs seeking guidance with their ‘people’ needs and requirements: Focusing on tools and techniques [...]
Our Poutama office will be closed from 12pm, 23 December 2021 to 9 January 2022. We will reopen and be available to respond to all enquiries from Monday 10 January 2022.
You are invited to a webinar about employment law changes relating to mandatory vaccination requirements for employees, under the COVID-19 Protection Framework (the traffic light system). You can register to attend one of the following webinars via the relevant link below. Each webinar covers the same content; you will only need to register for one: [...]
