The Magazine behind NZ’s Export Drive
In the last seven weeks alone China has concluded Free Trade Agreements with South Korea and Australia. South Korea has also just concluded a Free Trade Agreement with New Zealand. India and Australia are...
Plans to create an integrated ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) were announced over a decade ago with the vision being “a free flow of goods, services, investment and a freer flow of capital, equitable economic...
Brands are a carefully crafted alchemy of logic and magic. Their ability to win over the hearts and minds of those they wish to influence makes them an important and highly valuable intangible asset....
The 25 finalists in the 2015 New Zealand International Business Awards have been revealed and the diversity of sectors, services and products is remarkable – everything from international volunteering, experiential tourism photography and pilot...
New Zealand exporters face significant constraints on their activity through distance from markets, which adds difficulty and expense to all aspects of market research and entry, and the small domestic market which reduces the...
She attracted media attention in 2013 for her plans to build a luxury hotel in Dunedin. Nowadays Jing Song is attracting Chinese buyers to premium New Zealand wine and food and forging business links...
Auckland based firm StretchSense took out the Sports & Fitness category at the prestigious WT Innovation World Cup 14/15, held recently in Munich. StretchSense, which designs and manufactures wearable sensors, was one of 22...
By Sheldon Slabbert. The Kiwi dollar has recently received a lot of attention having moved about 10% in January alone. Currently, it is stabilising, however uncertainty always looms as a number of domestic and...
Business success with China will be celebrated at the New Zealand China Trade Association’s HSBC China Business Awards 2015 on 7 May. Entries are now invited from individuals and businesses that export to China,...
The worldwide trend in shipping to use larger vessels, and the associated ‘hubbing’ of New Zealand exports to large ports such as Singapore, is creating new risks for exporters. The effect is ships colliding...
