Tane Bradley - Ngāti Maniapoto AgriSea NZ Ltd is the leading biological input company in NZ. It is a Paeroa based, multi-award winning, family business. Tane Bradley is CEO and along with his wife, Clare, are the second generation to run this company that was founded almost 25 years ago, under the name Ocean Organics. [...]
Earlier this month, families in isolated East Coast communities invested over one million dollars in a new regional investment fund established by charitable company Hikurangi Enterprises. This was followed by a further one million dollars invested through crowdfunding site PledgeMe. In fact, there was such a demand to invest, the PledgeMe site couldn’t cope and crashed!! “If [...]
Excited children, parents and caregivers gathered at Hoyts, Sylvia Park last month to celebrate the premiere of the highly anticipated Māori cartoon “Te Pakiwaituhi” which stemmed from the much beloved Māori children’s brand Pipi Mā, the first ever 100% Māori speaking dolls. Created by partner duo Kristin Ross and Hōhepa Tuahine, Te Pakiwaituhi explores the [...]
Scientists from the MacDiarmid Institute are here to help! Do you have an idea for a new product, but don’t know how to make it happen? Are you struggling to get production running efficiently due to a tricky technical issue? Experts from the MacDiarmid Institute are here to help. They have offered their time and [...]
Kia Houpapa is a Massey University MBA student based in Wellington. He is an experienced researcher and has four undergraduate qualifications and Masters degrees in both Social Work and Education Research. As part of the MBA programme, Kia is looking for a Māori project/business/trust/iwi that he could help – so he can contribute something useful [...]
Food Entrepreneurs - Are you wanting to take your food business from starting out to stepping up? Are you ready to grow but running into challenges? The Kitchen Project is inspired by La Cocina in San Francisco - one of the most successful kitchen incubators in the United States. It aims to enhance Auckland's foodscape [...]
Nate and Cam Whitaker - Ngāti Mahuta The website MovingPros, set up by two brothers, Cam and Nate Whitaker, helps to make the tedious task of moving house “far less stressful” at a point that really counts – sorting out and selecting a moving company. “We’ve built an online moving comparison platform where customers moving house [...]
New Zealand’s dramatic landscapes are much more than just a pretty backdrop for the Māori people. Each tribe, or iwi, has local stories about how the mountains, rivers, lakes and hot springs in their region were created. Local landmarks are part of their whakapapa, their genealogy, seen and respected as ancestors with personalities that connect the [...]
Isaac Beach – Ngāti Porou KANAPU® Hemp Foods Limited (KHFL) is a vertically integrated grower, processor and manufacturer of hemp food products in Aotearoa. Launched on 1 April 2017 it is a start-up enterprise that emerged as a result of 3 years preparatory work that sought to establish a pathway to market for hemp foods [...]
TOI-OHOMAI Institute of technology Good News!!! We offer you a brand new restructured and NZQA-approved programme for you to get into the Beekeeping Industry: 34 weeks training. Part time study. 2 full time days a week only. Following the beekeeping seasonal work Simultaneously in 2 campuses depending where you live (Windermere and Whakatane) Practical with [...]
