A bi-lateral Chamber of Commerce has been established to assist New Zealand firms trading throughout the wider Arab region and to facilitate access to New Zealand for Arab companies and investors.
One of China’s most respected wine experts says New Zealand is in a good position to begin capturing the imagination of China’s aspirational consumers. International guest judge at this year’s Hawke’s Bay A & P Mercedes Benz Wine Awards Fongyee Walker says as China’s market develops she hopes to see a greater growing appreciation for the high quality and diversity of New Zealand wine.
Boutique New Zealand winery SOHOWINE CO is toasting their success as the first three 40 foot containers filled with 4000 cases of SOHO wine, leave our shores, bound for the USA.
Tighter market conditions provide new opportunities for New Zealand wines according to the June year end 2012 Annual Report of New Zealand Winegrowers.
Fonterra’s record end-of-season quarter has been the Co-operative’s biggest ever May, June, and July – with 620,000 metric tonnes of dairy products loaded on ships for export to over 100 markets around the world.
Executive Director of ExportNZ Catherine Beard says the Government should be congratulated on pulling together all its plans for the export sector into one document and for setting the country a stretch goal of increasing exports to 40% of GDP by 2025.
Forty years after starting his business, self-made man Sir Ken Stevens has won the inaugural Exporters Champion for Exemplary Services to Export Award, and was honoured at the recent Air New Zealand Cargo ExportNZ Auckland Awards 2012.
New Zealand exporters have been finding it tough, but despite fluctuating exchange rates and rising fuel costs, they are still cautiously optimistic about the next 12 months according to the 2012 DHL Export Barometer.
New Zealand exporters are realising the opportunity of selling online. In a recent DHL Rapid Response Survey, 88 percent of exporters surveyed stated they perceive the growth of online shopping to be an opportunity as opposed to a threat.
Medical bed manufacturer Howard Wright has secured a significant public hospital supply contract with its new M9 Ward and M9 Compact Beds in the Australian state of Victoria.
Companies trading with the US are invited to enter the 2012 American Chamber of Commerce – DHL Express Success & Innovation Awards, held in conjunction with Qantas Airways.
The 3.1 percent increase in fruit and vegetable exports in 2011 is a great result given the negative impacts of a 6.5 percent rise in the value of the New Zealand dollar and difficult market conditions in the same period.
NZ King Salmon has aligned with two of Japan’s largest retail centralized buying organisations (CBOs) to reach out to 80 supermarket chains comprising 2500 stores in the competitive but lucrative market.
Qantas has moved to tap into the huge market for cheaper airfares in China through the creation of a new joint venture, Jetstar Hong Kong, according to a report in the NZ Herald citing AAP.
New Zealand baby food company Green Monkey is suing packaging manufacturer Aperio Group over the recall of almost $1 million worth of product after plastic disks were found in pouches of its organic puree.
Apple Inc misled customers in Australia with claims the new iPad connects to 4G networks, when that’s not the case, the competition regulator said, according to a Bloomberg.
The Australian government risks damaging relations with its largest trading partner because of revelations it will not let the company building its high speed broadband network buy equipment from Chinese firm Huawei, according to an article carried by Stock and Land.
