Time to roll up your sleeves
Looked at your business plans lately? Business growth specialist Fiona Clark dishes up some great advice for making 2023 one of your...
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The business that makes you smile
Great ideas for businesses often come through personal experience. For Tom and Hannah Wrench the genesis for Smile Box was their own...
Chuffed by the growth
From Covid life-raft to thriving business: how one start-up is disrupting NZ’s gift market. A business that began as a life-raft for...
Biotech startup first beneficiary of support initiative
A Kiwi biotech startup created to reduce global dependence on milk protein is the first recipient of funding...
Peoples Coffee gears up for expansion
Kiwis are being invited to own a piece of Peoples Coffee as the company looks to raise $1.5 million to supercharge its production capacity...
Employee experience platform raises $2M
Excellent, the New Zealand-founded platform spearheading the employee experience movement through learning, community and accreditation,...
Catch and keep: The power of retention
Mat Wylie explains how instilling a culture of customer retention and great experiences both empowers your team and boosts profits. There...
Activate Tāmaki Makaurau supports 12,000 businesses
Between December 2021 and June 2022, more than 12,000 Auckland businesses impacted by COVID-19 accessed support through Activate Tāmaki...
Rubber Monkey targets Aussie expansion
Rubber Monkey has launched a NZ$2.5m capital raise to fund further Australian expansion and drive growth. Rubber Monkey, the e-commerce...
The fundamentals driving Education Perfect’s global growth
Education Perfect is a Kiwi global education company that has experienced impressive growth in 2021/22. Its CEO Alex Burke shares the top...
7 easy stages to make your business thrive
Business and marketing strategist Judy Celmins explains the seven stages that can develop the heart of your business and grow it. If blood...
Aotearoa’s ‘Business For Good’ turns 15
Thousands of makers at Felt.co.nz collectively make more than $1 million in sales every year. New Zealand’s largest online marketplace...
Q&A: Shifting the stigma behind medicinal cannabis
CannaPlus+ is New Zealand’s first internationally affiliated medicinal cannabis clinic network and telemedicine platform. Founder Eva...
Quest on a 20-year roll
Quest has grown from one apartment hotel to New Zealand’s largest hotel chain in just 20 years, and it all comes down to a very...
We Love Local enters South Island
Growth of almost 4000 percent during the pandemic, and the demand from Kiwis to ‘back their backyards’ has led giftbox business We...
A guide to creating business apps
Looking to build your own business app? Entrepreneurs Erika and Will Palmer share their experience in launching their relationship app...
Celebrating the resilience of women-owned SMBs
Alisha Elliott explains why, in these times especially, women-led businesses deserve a supportive community. Two years into the pandemic,...
New app sparks family conversations
A new estate management app which removes the stress from organising and cataloguing household possessions is designed to function as a...
Teaching the students well
Chris Duggan is successfully harnessing the business community to help deliver high-quality science teaching resources to New Zealand...
E-commerce in New Zealand: where to next?
Kiwis shop online more than ever. Parcel numbers moving through New Zealand Post’s network is up 25 percent. Peter Jones discusses...
New food storage facilities set to ease shortages
A new investment in FMCG storage and logistics facilities valued at over a quarter of a billion dollars is set to help New Zealand prepare...
Cropsy completes successful capital raise
New Zealand agritech start-up Cropsy Technologies has successfully raised $1.5 million in an over-subscribed capital raise to...
E-motorcycle start-up’s successful raise
Wellington e-motorcycle start-up FTN Motion has completed its second oversubscribed capital raise in less than a year, with...
Living, sharing the dream
Q&A: Sally Duxfield, owner of Makahika Outdoor Pursuit Centre and Aotearoa’s first fully sustainable, luxury off-the-grid...
Q&A: Hair today, online tomorrow
Wellington hair salon Sable has been taking online shopping in the hair product industry by storm. Here’s the story behind the success....
Taking your business to the next level with a mentor
A well-matched mentor can be the ticket to better business planning and growth, as this Business Mentors New Zealand case study highlights....
Tokoroa Hub nurtures South Waikato entrepreneurs
A recently opened Impact Hub in Tokoroa is designed to nurture budding entrepreneurs in South Waikato, which also spans Putāruru,...
‘Keeping it local’ drives iconic brand success
Now in its 70th year, one of New Zealand’s most recognised and trusted brands, Lockwood Homes, believes one of the secrets to its...
Q&A: Navigating a road map to success
NZBusiness talks to Holly Wright and Paul Lee, co-founders of medicinal cannabis company Organic Genetics, about its NZ$4 million equity...
K’ Road’s retail high before lockdown
Before the current lockdown, figures from Marketview ranked Karangahape Road the highest performing Business Improvement District of all 66...