Liz Stringer does things on gut instinct alone. Twelve weeks ago, she had an instinctual feeling she should open a second outlet of her hugely successful clothing boutique, Harry’s.
Baker Jordan Rondel’s new retail space, Salon de Cake, is a calm, tasteful space which she fitted out herself.
A young Auckland café lives up to the goodness in its name by serving a side of social responsibility with its coffee. Customers were asked to donate a can for the Auckland City Mission in exchange for a free coffee.
French woman Anissa Talbi and her Kiwi husband Joe Dobson launched their boutique chocolatier business in Hastings, Hawke’s Bay in 2012. Talbi tells all about her path to becoming a chocolatier and the pros and cons of running an artisan food business.
Small and medium enterprises make up 97 percent of Kiwi businesses. In this sponsored post, Westpac SME Lead Damian Sharkey gives us insight into some of the challenges these businesses are facing, and how Westpac is responding.
Fresh from the “Tell us something we don’t know” files comes an MYOB report indicating that more than half of all SME operators in New Zealand are giving up their spare time to prepare paperwork for the end of the financial year on April 1.