Making work-life work
Wairarapa-based financial advisory business RIVAL Wealth uses workplace flexibility as its primary growth strategy. Not only is it quickly driving success, it’s also winning them awards. It’s fair to say
Wairarapa-based financial advisory business RIVAL Wealth uses workplace flexibility as its primary growth strategy. Not only is it quickly driving success, it’s also winning them awards. It’s fair to say
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The travel and tourism sector host familiarisations or more casually, ‘famils’, as a way to showcase their product to decision makers. These trips offer the opportunity to gain in-depth information
Andy Kenworthy takes a look at some of the finalists in this year’s NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards Going Circular Award. Is this the way of the future? It’s early
In a tiny South Taranaki township, local iwi owned business Kaitahi is helping grow a niche ‘native superfood’ industry for the benefit of generations to come. Sometimes success takes you
New Zealand has always used innovation to maintain its competitive edge. NZBusiness asked five North Island high-achieving innovators to share their thoughts on how to succeed through innovation – starting
Wairarapa-based financial advisory business RIVAL Wealth uses workplace flexibility as its primary growth strategy. Not only is it quickly driving success, it’s also winning them awards. It’s fair to say that small and medium businesses were a distinct minority amongst the entries at this year’s Diversity Awards NZ. Large companies, NFPs and government departments all featured prominently through the victory speeches at the gala dinner held in the Cordis Auckland’s main function room on August 29th. So when the night’s final category award, the Work Life Balance Award, was announced, it was a very surprised Tim Fairbrother who made his way to the stage to accept the award. Tim, along with wife and business partner Carissa Fairbrother, head up RIVAL
A three-part mini-series to help you generate sales through smart technology and stunning presentations..
The travel and tourism sector host familiarisations or more casually, ‘famils’, as a way to showcase their product to decision makers. These trips offer the opportunity to gain in-depth information about different regions, attractions, accommodation options, venues and conferencing services. While there is usually a measure of fun on a famil, the primary objective is to showcase available products and provide an experience to attendees for well-informed future purchasing decisions. If you are selected to join a famil, there is etiquette to be aware of. \ Are you a qualified buyer? When a hotel select guests to attend a famil they are looking closely at what type of business you work for. Do you currently purchase hotel room nights for your
Andy Kenworthy takes a look at some of the finalists in this year’s NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards Going Circular Award. Is this the way of the future? It’s early days in New Zealand’s transition to a circular economy. This is an economy in which the lifecycles of materials are maximised. Their use is optimised. At the end of life all materials are reutilised. It’s one where waste no longer exists. Instead of degrading the natural world, our industrial processes would restore it. Taken to its logical conclusion the circular economy could be the most radical change to our way of life since the industrial revolution. This is not about how to ‘sustain’ the current way of doing things.
In a tiny South Taranaki township, local iwi owned business Kaitahi is helping grow a niche ‘native superfood’ industry for the benefit of generations to come. Sometimes success takes you by surprise. Kaitahi, The Native Superfood Company, only launched in May. But after exhibiting at three Fine Food Shows and winning Fine Food NZ’s 2018 innovation award the company has potential clients lining up to take their product and in volumes they hadn’t dreamed of. As Kaitahi’s business development manager Leonie Matoe explains, after the Auckland Fine Food Show a senior executive from a major national outlet asked if the company’s production could reach three tonnes. Leonie recounts that she said a very tentative ‘yes’, before the potential customer asked
New Zealand has always used innovation to maintain its competitive edge. NZBusiness asked five North Island high-achieving innovators to share their thoughts on how to succeed through innovation – starting with Spaceworks’ Lizzi Whaley. There was a cute distraction at Lizzi Whaley’s K-Road Spaceworks HQ the morning NZBusiness rocked up to research this story. Luckily there were other people there who could babysit the CEO’s totally lovable French bulldog, while we sat down to discuss innovation. Lizzi believes many Kiwi business owners don’t know what innovation is, what it looks like for their business or where to start. Innovation can perhaps be better described as agility, she says. The agility to move where the market’s going, to what people want,
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