Even as New Zealand emerges as one of the few global success stories, managing to successfully eliminate COVID from our communities, challenges remain for retailers and business owners. One such challenge (and opportunity) is the potential impact of future outbreaks, and how this affects the customers shopping experience. Following the second lockdown in Auckland, shoppers […]

New Zealand retail and hospitality investment company Tahua Partners has signed a binding agreement to acquire Antares Restaurant Group Limited (Antares), trading as Burger King New Zealand.  Subject to satisfying standard conditions, Tahua Partners will take over the business from 1 November 2020 with the existing Antares management team continuing to run the company’s operations. […]

Surprisingly, the growing appetite Kiwi dogs have for possum meat is helping not only to create more jobs but is putting a dent in New Zealand’s pest population. New Zealand’s largest possum meat dog food producer, Fond Foods, has seen growing demand for Possyum double since 2017 and has recently hit a milestone of 500,000kg […]

Two years in the making, it’s been a unique challenge for Allbirds who today launched their TrinoXO™ tee, made out of their signature Trino yarn spun with chitosan (pronounced “kite-oh-san”), a naturally occurring fibre derived from crab shells. Never before has pure chitosan fibre been used at this kind of scale in apparel, although chitosan […]

The world’s safest trampoline, Springfree Trampoline, has today launched a new global innovation, allowing customers to virtually place a trampoline in their backyard using their mobile device. The augmented reality tool is a first of its kind for trampoline retailers across the world and aims to bring families’ imaginations to reality by accurately showing Springfree’s […]