Topic “In the News News” — Exporter Magazine

“Understanding the profile of our international Māori population is an important component to realising the potential of the Māori economy,” says Te Puni Kōkiri Chief Executive Michelle Hippolite.

Te Puni Kōkiri and Kea New Zealand are working together to create opportunities to connect Māori businesses to the large international network of New Zealanders based outside of Aotearoa New Zealand, and to better understand the Māori expats among them.

New Vodafone technology will open up global markets for Kiwi exporter Mi5 Security. The security and surveillance firm is the first New Zealand company to connect all its devices in North America and Europe with a single SIM card in each device. 

Marlborough’s Moa Beer is adding Canada to its export markets after upping its presence in North America. 

Canadian craft beer drinkers soon get their first chance to enjoy a Moa – the first shipment of a container is en route to Richmond in British Colombia. 

LanzaTech has been ranked as Number 48 in the Top 100 list of America’s “most promising privately held companies” by FORBES magazine.

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from gases, is the only clean energy or bioscience firm in the top 50. 

The New Zealand Africa Business Council launched this month has the support of initial founding members as well as New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the New Zealand Middle Eastern Business Council. In addition many New Zealand corporates that either do business with African based companies or want to start exporting to the region are also members.

A new global arrangement will make it easier for many New Zealand products to gain access to overseas markets, and vice versa. At the recent ILAC (International Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation) general assembly in Brazil, New Zealand’s accreditation organisation (IANZ) was one of the inaugural signatories to a new global mutual recognition arrangement (MRA).

While business leaders in mature economies are looking for international expansion opportunities in higher growth emerging economies, the same cannot be said of New Zealand businesses, according to the latest Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR).