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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 […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4TH WEEK JANUARY 2017 Often people start thinking about new ventures and new businesses at this time of the year. Traditional wisdom suggests that all businesses need a business plan. Particularly when someone is looking at starting out, they are asked where and what their plan is. Yet […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 2nd WEEK JANUARY 2017 Here at NZ Chambers of Commerce Northland we are often approached by incredibly passionate, innovative people wishing to start a business. This business is often the fruition of years of thinking about a particular problem that they believe they can solve to meet an […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK DECEMBER 2016 We constantly hear of businesses expecting to experience difficulty employing workers and the perception that a percentage of New Zealand’s potential workforce is not in fact work-ready. While there may be some truth in this; it is probably an over-simplification of the issues surrounding […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 2nd WEEK DECEMBER 2016 Measuring how successful a business is when compared to others is always very difficult. There are tools that can be used –such as the Baldridge Criteria- that assess the level of business excellence a business has achieved and the Westpac Business Excellence Awards are […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 4th WEEK NOVEMBER 2016 No region in New Zealand is exempt from major natural disaster events whether they be seismic, meteorological or some other form. Civil Defence does some amazing things in the country not only helping people when natural disasters strike but also by raising the awareness […]
ADVOCATE ARTICLE
01 Jun, 2017
ADVOCATE COLUMN 2nd WEEK NOVEMBER 2016 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 28TH October. It takes almost as much courage to hold […]
