Businesses

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In 2012, Te Manawa o Tūhoe, Ngati Awa and Poutama started brainstorming on the possibility of establishing a geothermal powered milk processing plant in Kawerau.  Fast forward to 2017 and the Kawerau dairy project [...]