ADVOCATE ARTICLE
08 Jan, 2018
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK JULY 2017 Business exists to serve a market need. Generally they have been established to earn an income for someone or some group. So it is important for the business owner to understand that the customer or market is their only source of income and as […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
08 Jan, 2018
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK AUGUST 2017 The upper North Island accounts for a large portion of New Zealand’s overall economic activity and productivity. So, in many ways one of Northland’s competitive advantages is our proximity to New Zealand’s largest market and New Zealand’s main air and sea freight gateway. Because […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
08 Jan, 2018
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK NOVEMBER 2017 International research has shown that failure rate among start-up business can be very high. One report recently suggested that only one in twelve start-ups succeed in the long term. People intending to start their own business should ensure that their decision is as well […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
08 Jan, 2018
ADVOCATE COLUMN 2nd WEEK NOVEMBER 2017 I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who were involved in this year’s Westpac Northland Business Excellence Awards which culminated with the award’s gala evening at Forum North on the 27TH October. It was the Chamber’s 40th year of involvement […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
08 Jan, 2018
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK SEPTEMBER 2017 When you look at the future well-being and prosperity of the Far North, most of us can relate to the fact that there is a lot of work to do and many historical wrongs to be righted. However, the potential and future opportunities are […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK MAY 2017 Although the Whangarei and Northland is vastly different from Auckland in so many ways, this does not mean recent conversations in Auckland in regards to issues such as bed tax hold no relevance to provincial New Zealand. With growth in visitor numbers putting pressure […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 2nd WEEK MAY 2017 To those people fortunate to own property then paying council rates is going to be an unavoidable fact of life. For those that do not own property but rent then they also will contribute indirectly to this source of council revenue. For this reason […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK MARCH 2017 Earlier this month government announced further investment in State Highway 1 south of Whangarei. Obviously most Northlanders, particularly those based in Whangarei have welcomed the prospect of improved road links between us and the rest of New Zealand. At the same time commentators from […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK APRIL 2017 Small and medium enterprises employ 20 people or less but make up 95 per cent of registered businesses and are responsible for about 50 percent of New Zealand jobs. They are often referred to as the engines of economic growth and they make up […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 2nd WEEK APRIL 2016 For the last 40 years NZ Chambers of Commerce Northland has been organising and coordinating the Northland Business Excellence Awards. For a large part of this time Westpac has been the event’s major sponsor. The Awards provide an opportunity to celebrate business excellence and […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK FEBRUARY 2017 Given that a vast majority of businesses in New Zealand are very small and that a big portion of these very small businesses don’t actually employ anyone, it is not difficult to see why isolation of the business owner may be as much of […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 2nd WEEK FEBRUARY 2017 Whenever the conversation turns to what makes it hard for businesses to operate or what constitutes a business-friendly environment the focus generally falls on local and central government and the regulatory framework and organisational cultures they sometimes create that make doing business harder than […]
