Exciting Companies Articles

Trees are HANGING TOUGH PF Olsen is a bright hope in depressed sector Graeme Kennedy [NBR] Rotorua forestry management business PF Olsen & Co is expanding profitably while many of its competitors are struggling in a sector widely described as depressed. The industry has been hit hard by escalating costs, low log prices and a high New Zealand dollar with forest investors seeing little...

Ancare - Parasite KILLER Graeme Kennedy [NBR] An agriculture industry report to be published next month will reveal that 95% of New Zealand cattle farms and 30% of sheep stations have animal parasites which have become resistant to farmers' most-used remedies. The startling statistics come as no surprise to Ancare managing director Colin Harvey whose animal health care company has spent...

Legal professor and work/life balance firm share top rank Lawyers named the researcher into the legal implications of human genetic screening and a boutique legal firm as the most exciting in the profession Graeme Kennedy [NBR] A University of Otago professor and a women-dominated boutique...

Smart surveillance shows face of the future Swiftlink systems are driven by a series of control centres, either implanted in large clients' premises or from the company's head office Graeme Kennedy [NBR] High-tech Auckland security firm Swiftlink is leading the industry to new levels of...

42 Below Vodka maker adds to the mix Dion Nash limbers up for a global launch Graeme Kennedy [NBR] Former test cricketer Dion Nash will use a vodka trail to bring his new 420 New Zealand bottled water to domestic and global niche markets. The smartly packaged product is scheduled for...

Helping older people keep active Presbyterian Services - Aged Care wants to keep the elderly out of rest homes for as long as possible Graeme Kennedy [NBR] Presbyterian Services is bringing a more youthful and active product to the aged-care sector with a goal-oriented model designed to be...

Export slump creates domestic bonanza Duncan & Co Venison marketer finds lucrative market Graeme Kennedy [NBR] Whitford venison exporter Andrew Duncan of Duncan & Co turned to the domestic wholesale market two years ago after the offshore trade slumped in the wake of the mad cow and...

Chaffers set to transform capital Wraight & Associates landscape architecture will turn ugly inner-city land into a recreation and garden area. Graeme Kennedy [NBR] Landscape architect Megan Wraight of Wraight & Associates is heading a $13 million Wellington City Council development...

The BIG HOOK The fishing and aquaculture industries are in a bad way thanks to the Kiwi dollar and lower revenues but Sealord is optimistic. Graeme Kennedy [NBR] Low export prices and a shortage of product has forced fishing giant Sealord to innovate - or die, chief executive Doug McKay...

Design Mobel - A CUT ABOVE Roger Parker Ever seen stacks of logs sitting on the wharf and wondered why we're exporting them raw instead of adding value to them? If we did, wouldn't that mean more jobs and income for New Zealand? The reality is not that simple, say timber manufacturers, the...

Orion Systems International - A HEALTHY PROGNOSIS Roger Parker and Adele Gautier The health services sector is like no other area covered by New River's research for The Search for New...

Fidelity Life - Insurance Industry is UNDERWRITING THE FUTURE Roger Parker and Adele Gautier The mature, highly competitive insurance sector has had depressed prices for most of the past 10...

Air Safaris (Tekapo) - AIR TRANSPORT SECTOR TAKES OFF Roger Parker and Adele Gautier This month's search for New Zealand's Most Exciting Companies focused on the air transport sector. As...

Resene Paints - POTENT Chemical Reactions Chemical product manufacturing is a sensitive sector. Roger Parker and Adele Gautier 'Chemophobia,' a fear of chemicals, is said to be behind rising...