ABOVE: Labour list MP Angie Warren-Clark, Small Business Tauranga deputy chair Zita Cameron, Minister of Small Business Stuart Nash, and Small Business Tauranga chair Steven Farrant. Photo/David Porter. Small Businesses in New Zealand are young, dynamic and dominate New Zealand’s industries, but they face unique challenges, says Steven Farrant, chair of Tauranga Chamber of Commerce’s…
New Zealand’s small businesses are getting weighed down by costs and the Government should take a hard look at giving them a tax cut in next year’s Budget, an economist says. Former ANZ chief economist Cameron Bagrie said small companies are the key to the big economic transition Finance Minister Grant Robertson said New Zealand…
New data spells out when NZ’s vital small businesses can struggle most. If you know someone running a small business, or even working in one, be extra kind to them in January, March and May. That’s because they seem to be the most difficult months for small businesses when it comes to getting paid or…
Increasing productivity is top of mind for many small businesses but industry leaders say this year’s Budget won’t be a win for the sector. Health, education and housing will likely to receive the majority of Government’s funding this week, despite the Labour-led government’s clear small business bent, Sue De Bievre, chief executive of Beany, says….
Small businesses lack cybersecurity knowledge and few have a backup plan in the event of an online attack. According to a survey by Spark Lab, almost 70 per cent of New Zealand SMEs have no crisis management plan for cyber attacks and 40 per cent have no virus protection installed on their company computers and…
A Tauranga organisation has won a major technology award for its efforts to help keep children safe online. Safe Surfer has developed a new “Lifeguard” device which can be attached to any modem. It blocks websites containing pornography, violence, gambling and other harmful material. Their efforts have resulted in the organisation being named “Tech Innovator…
Confidence in the economy has fallen to its lowest level in three years amongst New Zealand’s small-to-medium sized enterprises (SMEs), according to the latest MYOB Business Monitor survey of more than 1,000 business operators around the country. Expectations for the economy fell from an overall net positive 21 percent in the March 2017 Monitor, to…
A new multimillion-dollar horticulture-focused regional research institute plans to be operational in Tauranga during the second half of this year. Last July the Government announced it would provide $8.42 million in funding towards the institute over five years with additional funding from the industry. The business case was put forward by Priority One – Western…
The Daily Café in Te Puke has been named Cafe of the Year. Meadow Fresh New Zealand Cafe of the Year Awards is in its sixth year. The Daily Café is owned by The Search Party Charitable Trust, a registered charity. The cafe’s not-for-profit ethos, focuses on giving back, with all profits going to the…
For as long as Rose McMahon can remember she has been able to see things through a frame. The Tauranga 17-year-old has an eye for it, shooting her first camera at the age of “about 8 or 9”, although she says she had played around with her mum’s camera even before that. With that in…
