Bowery – The modern farming company
The mainstream food system focuses on large-scale volume over quality. The health of people and the environment suffer as a result. As the population grows, more food will need to be produced in the [...]
NZ Luxury Experiences – Collaboration is Key
Leading bespoke yacht companies Marinelogix Yacht Support and New Zealand Luxury Experiences collaborate to host one of the largest superyachts to visit New Zealand waters this season. Marinelogix acted as the yachts agent including [...]
Tai Tokeraru Honey Ltd
Tai Tokerau Honey Ltd is a 100% Maori owned and operated beekeeping company, specializing in the production of the renowned Mānuka Honey. Currently, the company runs approximately 5000 hives, and while the base of [...]
Pitopito kōrero
Kai Rawa Roopu Callaghan Innovation and Plant & Food Research recently hosted Kai Rawa, a group of Māori business on a food-tech visit to the USA. The trip included 3 days in the San [...]
Whai Paddles
“Making Paddles That We Love” Love it or hate it, Stand Up Paddle-boarding (SUP) is the world’s fastest growing water sport. WHAI paddles started off when innovator Anthony Clyde (Ngāti Naho) took to his [...]
Opportunity or Threat for Māori food producers?
While in San Francisco recently the Kai Rawa group got to experience the non-meat burger that looks like a burger, tastes like a burger, but isn’t. The burger produced by Impossible Foods is making [...]
Māori Wine Coalition
Poutama’s Beverage Cluster is made up of wine, beer, water and craft non-alcoholic beverage companies. A meeting last year identified opportunities for enhancing their collaboration through economies of scale in areas such as production, [...]
An icon of New Zealand Maori Tourism Passes
By Oscar Nathan, GM Destination Rotorua - ex. Poutama Business Advisor and CEO of Tamaki Tours New Zealand tourism shines that less brighter with the unexpected passing earlier this month of one of the [...]
ATP Fitness – Pele Aumua
Iwi – Kai Tahu ATP Fitness Club is a Health & Fitness company that has been running since 2013 in Palmerston North. Owned and operated by Pele Aumua, ATP Fitness Club is “About the [...]
Bakers Delight Rotorua – Kiri Carston
Iwi - Ngāti Rangiwewehi After 7 years of living in Victoria, Australia, with me looking after our two young boys and my husband working in the hospitality industry, we decided to come back to [...]
