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

Mike Hearn, Executive Director for AmCham, says 2012 has seen another strong group of entrants, covering diverse range of products and services from water to wine, nutraceuticals to salmon, software technology to kilns and baggage handling systems. 

“Trade with the USA continues to run around $9 billion however over the last year we have seen more New Zealand companies entering the US market, setting up offices and hiring staff,” says Hearn. 

“It has also been a very positive year for inbound investment with a record number of nominations for the Investor of the Year to or from the USA award.” 

The finalists are:

Importer of the Year 

Cavit & Co Limited, 

Nature’s Sunshine Products (NZ) Ltd

Seychelle Water Filter Ltd

Tidd Ross Todd Ltd

Investor of the Year to or from the USA

Endeavour Capital Ltd

Fiserv, Inc. 

General Electric (GE)

Mighty River Power Ltd

Exporter of the Year to the USA $1 to $500,000

Abel Software Ltd

Red Witch Analog Ltd

Exporter of the Year to the USA $500,001 to $5m

BCS Group Ltd

Kono NZ LP

Mt Cook Alpine Salmon Ltd

Vista Entertainment Solutions Ltd

Windsor Engineering Group Ltd

Exporter of the Year to the USA over $5m

Natural History New Zealand Ltd

Serato Inv LP

TRU-TEST Ltd

Yealands Estate Wines

One of the above will be chosen as the Supreme winner. The awards will be presented at a black tie gala dinner at the Pullman Hotel Auckland on 9th August. Robert Tapert (Hercules, Xena & Spartacus) will be the keynote speaker with David Slack as the MC. For detail and tickets see www.amcham.co.nz

Previous winners of the Supreme Award have included Zespri International, Peace Software, Airways Corporation, HumanWare, Tenon, Orion Health, Zeacom, SMI Group, Fonterra and Pratt & Whitney Air New Zealand Services t/a Christchurch Engine Centre, Buckley Systems.