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 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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Abraham Shearing is owned and operated by Paerata & Cushla Abraham based in the Wairarapa. Very much a whānau oriented business, both Paerata and Cushla grew up with parents working in the sheds and are sharing these experiences with their two young girls. Many of their employees, are siblings, cousins and wider whānau members. Their [...]
On 28 April, Business Mentors New Zealand will host a webinar to explain the benefits of virtual mentoring. Business Mentors New Zealand supports new and developing business owners advance their business capability, capacity and sustainability through skilled business-people gifting their time to share their knowledge and expertise. A business mentor and a mentee will share [...]
