Business case studies and stories in our region
The Waikato is full of innovative leaders and businesses, read about them here.
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It’s our cup of tea
When Gigi Crawford was growing up in Singapore, she never dreamed one day she’d be managing a tea plantation in NZ.
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Match made in Hamilton
Back the mid-1990s, three young blokes started in the hospitality business in Hamilton’s south-end, and made an immediate impact in a market hungry for decent coffee, food, wine, and service.
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A place where Hobbits hang out
They enjoy their food, their beer, their friends, and they typically make their home amid fruitful, rolling green farmland where they can grow crops, and throw the occasional humdinger party.
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Student video ‘star’ spreads word
Harshmeen Kaur has been in NZ for two years, but already she has aspirations to become the country’s prime minister.
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Vast vision based on values
To say Chris Joblin has big ambitions for the Waikato region, is like saying the All Blacks are okay at rugby.
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Each garden tells a story
Visitors from 20 different countries may pass through Hamilton Gardens in a single day, along with many locals, and this is part of the charm of the city’s unique, 54ha public garden.
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The world is their classroom
There are more than 70 different nationalities at the University of Waikato.
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Clean, green image matches precious product
William Zhao’s office looks out over the lower reaches of the Bombay Hills. In one direction verdant fields stretch to the bush-covered foothills.
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‘We’ve built our lives here’
Lance remembers driving past Rockspring Farm when he was a kid, admiring its noble stands of kahikatea, and the long tree-lined driveway, and thinking, “I’d love to have that place one day.”
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From Rio, with love
Mônica Senna Salerno is from Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil.
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Cave man living the dream
Angus Stubbs is the closest thing New Zealand has to a caveman.
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Giggles and grammar part of the mix
Mary and Martin MacKenzie always wanted to have a large family. “Twenty would have been nice,” says Mary.