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Buy NZ Made, Roasted, Ground and Sold

August 13, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Manufacturing, New Zealand, Society

An excellent post over here about the recent Chinese made NZ peanut butter fiasco. I can’t add much to what has been said already other than that consumer apathy is a strong foil to the Buy Kiwi Made campaign,…

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MEA comes clean….

August 9, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Manufacturing, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

I posted a week or so ago about the Boiled Tuatara website. Today the NZ manufacturers and exporters association owned up to posting the adds and the site is now down and linking to the MEA main site. The…

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Auckland is thinking about infrastructure…..

August 9, 2007

Design, Economic Development, IT, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

And not just roads!…… Apparently they’re calling for proposals to set up a WIFI network around Auckland. While Malcolm Dick from CallPlus might criticise the execution, the fact that Auckland is even thinking along these lines is heartening. All…

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CMA please don’t do this to manufacturers…

August 6, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Governance, Manufacturing, My businesses, New Zealand

Jim pointed me to this article which discusses that fairly vitriolic attack that John Walley from the Canterbury Manufacturers Association made against Business New Zealand and the Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce among others. The gist of the attack…

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Business development – Government’s role…

August 4, 2007

Business, Design, Economic Development, Governance, New business, New Zealand, Strategy, Uncategorized

I’ve received a bit of feedback since my post the other day regarding the Government’s role in helping to grow enterprise in New Zealand. Jim in particular strongly feels that help should be given to medium size businesses instead…

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MED and NZTE take note…

August 3, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

Someone else has identified what I’ve been saying for years in that the Government strategies for supporting small and medium size businesses are woefully ineffective. For a long time now I’ve felt that the Governments strategy of creating 100*$100mill…

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Burger Fuel and uninformed investors….

July 31, 2007

Business, Economic Development, New Zealand, Society

Check this out. BF market cap plummets simply through the sale of $1000 shares. Apparently a number of investors paid for their shares with credit cards. Sheesh – I can’t believe how New Zealanders could go onto an IPO…

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Dubai and Auckland airport….

July 30, 2007

Business, Economic Development, Efficiency, Governance, New Zealand, Society, Strategy, Uncategorized

Does anyone else out there cringe at the diatribe currently spinning around regarding the proposed acquisition of Auckland International Airport by a UAE based entity? It seems to me yet another example of good old Kiwi tall poppy syndrome/xenophobia/parochialism.…

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Are our heads in the sand….

July 29, 2007

Business, Business and the Environment, Compliance, Economic Development, Manufacturing, New Zealand, Society, Strategy

A friend (OK OK a facebook contact) sent me this link. Without being all right wing and going on and on about how ACT was sent here to save our souls (god forbid!) it does have to be said…

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SaaS goes mainstream….

July 27, 2007

Business, Economic Development, IT, New business, New Zealand, SaaS, Strategy

I’m really going to have to find something new to blog about. Here I was thinking that SaaS was sufficiently esoteric and “backroom” to keep me a little aloof and what happens?, NZTE does a SaaS expose in its…

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