Newly formed avocado exporter AVOCO has raised its forecast for this season's earnings in Australia and now expects to hit the $50 million mark by the end of the harvest, which starts in late August.
Now they’re drinking our organic espresso in Kuwait. Kiwi coffee company Franchise Development Ltd (FDL) has opened its first Esquires Coffee House in the Gulf state bringing the brand’s Middle East presence to 12 stores.
Merlot.aero, the New Zealand-based software company with the world’s first fully cloud-based system airline operations management system, is to open its first formal international office, on the back of the announcement of a significant multi-million dollar win in the USA.
The New Zealand maker of scales for weighing cattle and meters for measuring animal milk output – Tru-Test Group – has won the supreme award in the Air New Zealand Cargo ExportNZ Auckland Awards 2013.
New Zealand exporter confidence is up despite the strong kiwi dollar, as exporters focus on factors they can control and deploy strategies ranging from importing to focusing on the online environment.
Waikato-based dairy biotechnology company, Quantec Ltd, has signed a distribution and supply agreement with a major Japanese specialty ingredients company, Kanematsu Chemicals Corporation.
Now is the time for New Zealand businesses to be setting up operations in China, but cultural differences need to be addressed, says visiting global business risk leader.
Stanley Chang, Grant Thornton International global business risk leader, said China’s strong growth prospects over the next five to 10 years and the growing average disposable income are reasons why businesses are moving to China not just to produce, but to sell.
New Zealand designers and suppliers of jewellery, yacht masts and aeroplane safety checks are doing such good business on distant shores; and they are among the finalists in the Air New Zealand Cargo ExportNZ Auckland Awards 2013.
A business trip to India, organised by ANZ Bank, has generated new business for several customers who took part.
In late April ANZ took 13 New Zealand businesses, including meat, dairy, wine, fruit and juice exporters, on an eight-day trip to India.
Nelson-based company Supreme Biotechnologies, which makes the highly potent antioxidant AstaSupreme™ astaxanthin, has received a new investment that will allow its astaxanthin production capacity to double.
Airborne Honey recently introduced the world’s first honest, undamaged and traceable (HUT) honey jar label at the Andaz Hotel in Shanghai. Airborne Honey presented to an audience of 250 people, including 60 media at, “China and New Zealand Celebrating the Future,” an event designed to celebrate strengthening trade relationships between the two countries.
The late Sir Paul Callaghan once said that the brilliance of New Zealanders was in the ‘niches’ – and the global success enjoyed by winners of this year’s World Class New Zealand Awards is a testimony to those wise words.
The category winners for the 2013 Awards, a New Zealand Trade and Enterprise initiative delivered by Kea New Zealand, were announced recently.
Companies trading with the United States are invited to enter the 2013 American Chamber of Commerce – DHL Express Success & Innovation Awards, held in conjunction with Hawaiian Airlines. Over the past thirteen years, prizes valued at more than $300,000 have been collected by winners.
The Australian demand for New Zealand made energy efficient gas heating has seen local manufacturer Rinnai grow export earnings to this market by 51% over the last two years.
Giesen Wines’ growing momentum in the United States has been underlined by recent successes at wine competitions there. The Marlborough winery has just won six gold medals at US wine competitions.
New Zealand’s leading meat processor and exporter Alliance Group, and food certification company Oritain Global, are utilising technology designed to enable Alliance Group to scientifically certify the origin of New Zealand sheepmeat.
“Understanding the profile of our international Māori population is an important component to realising the potential of the Māori economy,” says Te Puni Kōkiri Chief Executive Michelle Hippolite.
Te Puni Kōkiri and Kea New Zealand are working together to create opportunities to connect Māori businesses to the large international network of New Zealanders based outside of Aotearoa New Zealand, and to better understand the Māori expats among them.
