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  1. Grant Thornton New Zealand’s Director of People and Culture and MBA student, Vicki Caisley has recently returned from a two-week Massey University study tour of the US looking at international business models and innovation. Stories abound of New Zealand businesses, large and small, falling over when they try to go off-shore and make it in larger markets. 
  2. The Asean New Zealand Combined Business Council (ANZCBC) and Export New Zealand are staging the Indonesia Forum 2012, with the support of the Indonesian Embassy in New Zealand. Scheduled for Friday 28th September, this is a high level forum intended to identify opportunities for New Zealand businesses in Indonesia.

  3. 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.

  4. 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. 

  5. 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. 

  6. Tighter market conditions provide new opportunities for New Zealand wines according to the June year end 2012 Annual Report of New Zealand Winegrowers.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. “The ExportNZ 2012 Survey shows the majority of exporters are still in a positive frame of mind despite exchange rate challenges and the lacklustre growth affecting some parts of the world economy”, says Catherine Beard, Executive Director of ExportNZ.

  10. The American Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand has announced the finalists for the 2012 AmCham-DHL Express Success and Innovation Awards. 

  11. los20cabos-3780225 There’s a little bit of New Zealand greeting visitors to Mexico, and the clever Kiwi technology will be seamlessly uniting airline passengers with their baggage as they head to popular holiday destinations. Grupo Aeroportuario Del Pacifico, which operates 12 airports in the Pacific region of Mexico has chosen baggage handling technology from BCS Group for its showcase San Jose Del Cabo and El Bajio airports.
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    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.

  13. Gallagher Group’s decision to deliver a single global identity has resulted in a company name change for prominent local business, PEC Fuel Pumps.

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    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.

  15. Immigrant businesspeople are poised to play a leading role in New Zealand’s efforts to build an export-led economic recovery, according to early findings from the country’s most in-depth business survey. 

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    Fonterra has announced the opening of a new innovation centre in Shanghai as part of the Co-operative’s strategy to help feed China’s rapidly growing appetite for top quality dairy nutrition.  

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    The outlook for growth in the Chinese wine market remains positive even after a rapid rise in consumption in recent years. However, while the growth story remains intact, New Zealand wine suppliers must be mindful of a number of apparent gaps in the market that will need to be navigated in years to come, according to new report by Rabobank. 

  18. 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.  

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    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. 

  20. 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. 

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