Several mighty Waikato businesses are among the finalists in this year’s ExportNZ Awards.
The Waikato is represented by 11 businesses in five of the seven categories:
- Best Large Business (goods exporter): Gallagher Group
- Best Medium Business (goods exporter): Hunter Filling Systems
- Best Emerging Business (goods exporter): Helix Flight Manufacturing, Progressive Hydraulics Ltd, Spring Sheep Milk and Loadscan Ltd
- Best Medium Business (services exporter): Company-X and More4Apps
- Excellence in Innovation for Export: Spring Sheep Milk and Endace Ltd
Waikato has done well in the past two years, taking out many categories including Supreme Award by Waikato Milking Systems in 2016.
The aim of the ExportNZ awards programme is to inspire New Zealand firms to expand their business horizons, engage in exporting and grow internationally.
The ExportNZ Excelerator website showcases 144 amazing stories shared by finalists and winners of the ExportNZ Auckland & Waikato awards programme from 2009 – 2017.
Seven businesses from the ExportNZ Awards will go through to compete in the NZTE International Business Awards, but first they have to win their category.
The event is run by ExportNZ and businesses wanting to participate in NZTEIBAs must enter the respective regional awards.
Waikato and Auckland will be joining together to hold the Air NZ Cargo ExportNZ Export Awards on 28 June at ANZ Viaduct Centre, Auckland.
To see all the finalists and categories click here.
While you're here, don't forget to search through the Waikato Story's Toolkit to see if there is anything you can use for your business!