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Bank’s plan to kick-start start-ups

New Zealand risks becoming an “employment backwater” unless more is done to help people turn ideas into new businesses that will create jobs, warns Fred Ohlsson, MD of ANZ Business Banking.

Glenn Baker
Glenn Baker
April 25, 2013 One Min Read
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New Zealand risks becoming an “employment backwater” unless more is done to help people turn ideas into new businesses that will create jobs, warns Fred Ohlsson, MD of ANZ Business Banking. He says business ideas needed to boost employment and growth risk dying off as Statistics NZ figures show that business start-ups have plunged to their lowest level since at least 2000. 
Business ‘deaths’ have outnumbered ‘births’ for the past three years meaning the total number of enterprises has been falling since 2009. 
In response ANZ has announced a $500 million package to support new business start-ups. 
“It is alarming that nearly 30,000 fewer businesses were born last year than in 2004, yet new enterprises are the key to creating jobs,” says Ohlsson. “If we’re serious about getting unemployment down we must do all we can to boost business start-ups. 
“Today’s backyard entrepreneur can be tomorrow’s market leader, hiring hundreds along the way. But these people need help to take their ideas beyond the garage and on to success in the marketplace. It has always been a big leap to turn an idea into a viable business but the challenges appear to be mounting. Start-ups tell us one of their toughest tests is finding the right support: both the capital to get started, and the advice and tools to put a new venture on a sustainable footing.” 
ANZ’s new start-up package is designed to make it quicker and easier for start-ups to secure the funding and advice they need to get viable businesses off the ground. 

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  1. Anonymous says:
    May 1, 2013 at 5:18 am

    …and will it actually happen?

    Will ANZ actually put its money where its mouth is? This is the moment of truth. I'm asking for a flexible OD of 0.01% of their pledged amount and have so far been turned down – for a niche kindergarten that I've opened on the smell of an oily rag! Will the words become reality in the bank accounts of these kiwi entrepreneurs, or just more dollars lining the pockets of bankers?

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