Regional Business Partner Network – Have Your Say
The current Regional Business Partner Network (RBP) services are under review, and changes with how RBP will be delivered across Aotearoa will be implemented from 1 January 2022. We hear that the number of [...]
New Zealand Hospitality Summit 2021
The New Zealand Hospitality Summit 2021 is where Aotearoa’s $11 billion industry gathers to share, discover, and explore the food, beverage, accommodation, and hospitality trends shaping the future of the industry. The programme has [...]
Te Aratini – launched
The Te Aratini - Festival of Indigenous and Tribal Ideas website was recently launched. Aotearoa will host Te Aratini during Expo 2020 Dubai from 17-19 November 2021, in partnership with Iwi Chairs. On 16 [...]
E-commerce Training Scholarships – available to Māori
Te Whare Hukahuka are offering E-commerce training scholarships to Māori to cover the cost of the 12-week E-commerce ‘Ka Hao i te Ao’ programme. Do you know of anyone that would benefit from this [...]
Māori-Owned Business Excellence Acknowledged
At the 2021 Eastern Bay of Plenty Chamber of Commerce Awards, Poutama was privileged to sponsor the Māori-Owned Business Excellence Award. Whakatōhea Mussels (Ōpōtiki) Limited, won the Award, as well as the separate Farm, [...]
Bay of Plenty made technology
Envico Technologies Ltd is an award-winning environmental technologies company based in Mount Maunganui. Founded in 2018 by Samuel Vye and Cameron Baker, who are pioneers in the research and development of specialist drones and [...]
ANZ Insights: Māori Labour Market Resilience
Māori Employment during COVID One of the good news stories throughout 2020 was the resilience of New Zealand’s labour market. And one of the most surprising things is that unlike previous recessions, Māori have [...]
Abroad.io
Abroad is providing 10 free places for Abroad’s 4-month Breakthrough Founder Wellbeing Programme to Māori founders and investors. To learn more about the Wellbeing programme, visit the site here and watch the Information Session recording [...]
Kōkiri – Accelerating Māori Entrepreneurs
Kōkiri is a Māori business acceleration programme, based on kaupapa Māori values, focused on accelerating early-stage Māori led start-ups who have bold ambitions, are impact positive and technology based. Poutama was proud to sponsor [...]
Tūhoe honey on the world stage
Ruatāhuna rewarewa named best-tasting in the world Honey produced in Ruatāhuna in the middle of the Te Urewera forest has been named the tastiest in the world. Manawa Honey's rewarewa honey took out the [...]
Te Kupeka Umaka Maori ki Araiteuru (KUMA) Business Awards, 2 July
This year the Biennial Awards acknowledged resilience, collaboration and business success across the Otago, Southland and Queenstown Lakes District economies. Poutama was privileged to support the Awards and sponsor the Emerging Enterprise Category. Reigning [...]