Exciting Companies Articles

WORLD CLASS STYLE Roger Parker and Adele Gautier Apparel may be glamorous but you need to be brilliant in both business and fashion to survive and flourish. The search for New Zealand's Most Exciting Companies focuses this month on the apparel manufacturing sector. Many apparel businesses were kneecapped by low cost imports after tariffs were removed in the 1980s. So the new breed has moved...

World - Apparel Manufacturing Sector "Outrageous" and "on the edge" is how industry executives describe World's designs. Now sought after across the globe, they are the result of continual exploration into unusual materials and applications - including grass, glass, paper and card. A recent collection included men's suits made from specially commissioned paintings -...

Snowy Peak - Apparel Manufacturing Sector Ever since Bill Clinton obligingly flashed the Untouched World logo on his shirt to the world's media. Snowy Peak founder and CEO Peri Drysdale has been in the news. But that was only a recent highlight for a business that has been successful for 23...

Designer Textiles - Apparel Manufacturing Sector Designer Textiles was the only public company to rank in the shortlist of this month's exciting companies. It spans a range of business areas. Their knit manufacturing division Designer Textiles International which develops merino fabrics for...

Trelise Cooper - Apparel Manufacturing Sector Fashion designer Trelise Cooper is renowned for her exotic fabrics and the rich femininity of her designs. Fabrics are her point of difference, she says. She is a notable exception to the implicit rule that designer clothing is for thin people....

HIGH STAKES IN SCIENCE Roger Parker and Adele Gautier The search for New Zealand's Most Exciting Companies went into the scientiific research industry. New River’s investigation found a high stakes game: science with huge promise combined with long treacherous paths to market. Four of...

Genesis Research and Development Corporation - Scientific Research Sector Genesis is turning the exciting science of gene mapping into a viable and potentially highly lucrative commercial model. The company started from nothing almost 10 years ago, chief executive Jim Watson says, and is now...

Virionyx - Scientific Research Sector Virionyx's work on a passive immunotherapy-based treatment for HIV has the scientific research sector excited. HRG 214 works entirely differently from traditional treatments for the virus, employing antibodies that have been made in goat's blood then...

Hill Laboratories - Scientific Research Sector Hill Laboratories is converting science into a growing multi million dollar earner by filling unserved spaces in the science market and finding better ways of doing things. The company has grown by filling the analytical services niche left...

Cawthron Institute - Scientific Research Sector Nelson-based Cawthron Institute rated exciting for the "amazing stuff it does with mussels." The privately owned institute positions itself as "the most trusted partner in science" for companies in the aquaculture and marine...

Building on a BOOM Roger Parker and Adele Gautier The construction sector is booming. The search for New Zealand's Most Exciting Companies, researched by New River, found the industry is...

Hiway Stabilizers - Construction Sector Hiway Stabilizers rated exciting because of the “work they have put into stabilising roads and soils.” General manager John Boocock estimates...

Winstone Wallboards - Construction Sector While others sell wallboards and always have, Winstone Wallboards sell branded solutions – quiet spaces, tough spaces, and dry spaces –...

Jennian Holdings - Construction Sector The owner of the Jennian Homes franchise band has built and protected a strong, well-respected and growing brand. It has 23 business owners from Kerikeri...