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Taranaki startup Jobhop is on a mission to make the gig economy fair. The job-sharing platform went live in June  after getting through two years of work and overcoming plenty of pain points, and its latest achievement is winning the Innovation Excellence Award at the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Awards on November 14.    […]

Founder: Rob Elstone HQ: Hawke’s Bay What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Hortworx grows production through smart automation, increasing packhouse efficiencies and reducing labour reliance through the use of simple ‘back to basics’ engineering complimented with the latest technology. We produce a range of bin filler products, pack […]

Founder/s: Paul Simpson & Dominic Sutton HQ: Manawatu-Whanganui What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? StockTrim has a SaaS product, an online app that helps larger SMB’s save money with their inventory costs.  It’s really difficult for businesses that buy and sell products to know how much to order […]

New Plymouth’s Juno Gin is zero-waste from start to finish using Kiwi engineering and locally sourced ingredients.  To Juno Gin founders Jo and Dave James, the best way to conduct market research is by getting their gin into customers’ hands – served neat.  “It’s a revelation for them,” says Jo, “They often say, ‘I had […]

When lockdown hit economies worldwide early in 2020, New Plymouth medical bed and stretcher manufacturer Howard Wright Limited found a way to thrive.  Having become a significant but still relatively small manufacturer in the global market of medical beds and stretchers across 57 years – operating “Between the toes of elephants,” in the words of […]

After years of iterations, Palmerston North’s Peurgon successfully combined two hay-feeding methods, resulting in a product that’s saving both time and money for horse owners.  It’s difficult for company founder Chelsea Hirst to identify the exact moment she launched her business. She began designing and developing a product in mid-2014, but she would hardly call […]

Founder/s: Matthew Parkinson & Josh Ta̅kao HQ: Taranaki Wai Comply founders Matthew Parkinson and Josh Ta̅kao aim to deliver a high-quality service to the Drinking-Water sector, to help create safer drinking-water. Michael Botur finds out more. What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? M – In 2016, Havelock North […]

Christchurch-based Workable.app is a business-to-business platform enabling collaborative and flexible working arrangements to meet varying demand.  Eight years ago, Workable.app co founder Peter Dalman set up a painting and decorating company in Christchurch. Over the years, he continued to run into the same problem: finding help when he needed it.  A cycle of ‘peaks and […]