Customer stories
Hear from likeminded business owners and entrepreneurs and tap into their experience and insights from across the business lifecycle.
eTrucks: Keeping New Zealand’s economy moving – one kW at a time
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When eTrucks saw an opportunity to help heavy-vehicle operators reduce fuel risk and emissions, it set out to make electric transport practical for New Zealand businesses.
Te Mata Estate: Bottling global ambition
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Rooted in Hawke’s Bay, Te Mata Estate is growing a globally recognised wine brand – pairing winemaking heritage with quality, sustainability, and long-term thinking.
Cannulight: Improving successful vein access in medicine
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When Cannulight’s founder was studying dentistry, he noticed a small but important problem – he decided to make it his mission to fix it with a simple-yet-elegant solution.
Lawson’s Dry Hills: resilience in a bottle
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At a family-founded winery in Marlborough, long-term investment in responsible winemaking has built a brand that continues to stand out globally.
Jackson's Farm: Growth through generational planning
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Growing from 240 to 2,000 hectares over 70 years, Jackson's Farm demonstrates the importance of a clear vision, careful planning, and good partners.
Zempire: Building a global brand through innovation
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From a family-founded New Zealand business to a leading international outdoors brand, Zempire’s growth has been driven by innovation and bold decision-making.
AFT Pharmaceuticals: Building innovative treatments at scale for global impact
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In a competitive and highly regulated industry, AFT Pharmaceuticals has invested in long-term research, development, and innovation to improve treatment options for patients.
Better Packaging: Combatting plastic pollution, collaboratively
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Better Packaging shows innovation, collaboration, and fighting plastic pollution is a recipe for building resilient communities.
La Nuova: A new spin on innovation
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From a family dry-cleaning business in Inglewood to New Zealand’s most advanced AI-powered laundry, La Nuova proves how innovation and smart finance can work hand in hand.
Helping power Robomate’s growth
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Robomate had already identified the problem and the solution for tackling New Zealand’s tricker lawns with robot-mowers, but what he needed was the support to get it across the line.
Tranzit: From yesterday’s tech to tomorrow’s travel
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Tranzit’s journey from a small-town bus operator to a leader in the future of New Zealand transport shows how bold thinking and strong partnerships can drive meaningful change.
Recorp: Canning plastic for good
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Recorp is a startup on a mission to eliminate single-use plastic bottles in New Zealand. With cutting-edge technology and a world-first aluminium can production plant, Recorp’s setting new standards in sustainability and innovation.
SYOS Aerospace: How a Tauranga robotics startup has taken flight globally
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Developing some of the world’s most technologically sophisticated uncrewed vehicles for air, land, and sea, SYOS Aerospace is aiming high and scaling fast.
Sala Studio: Flexing small business potential
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Sarah Lindsay opened Sala, a boutique fitness studio in Ponsonby, with a vision to empower through movement and mindfulness. Today, Sala has grown far beyond what Sarah originally imagined.
Phoenix Recycling Group: The bright future of New Zealand’s circular economy
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Phoenix Recycling Group is reshaping how we think about resources. By processing metal scrap into vital resources for sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy, it’s driving change and supporting a resilient future.
Forest Lodge Orchard: Harvesting a zero-emissions revolution
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Mike and Rebecca, the owners of Forest Lodge Orchard, embarked on their sustainability journey with a bold vision – to build a farm powered by renewable energy and eliminate emissions.
Lauriston Solar Farm: Powered by collaboration, connection and capital
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New Zealand’s energy demand is set to double by 2050. New renewable power projects, like Lauriston Solar Farm, will support this growth and the drive to net zero.
ChargeNet: Powering Aotearoa’s EV future
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CleanTech and sustainability are about providing what we need now, while ensuring future generations inherit a healthy local and global environment they can prosper in.
Sustainable foundations paying off for Otis Oat Milk
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Driven by its vision for a thriving and vibrant plant-based industry in New Zealand, Otis Oat Milk aims to revolutionise consumer choices without sacrificing taste or tradition.
Thriving Southland: Communities creating a healthy environment from mountains to sea
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In Murihiku Southland, local farmers and communities are coming together to protect the land they love, supported by a community‐led organisation called Thriving Southland.
How government agency Callaghan Innovation could help fuel your high-tech growth
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Accelerate your business’s innovation by accessing experts, facilities, connections, and funding available from Callaghan Innovation.
How NZ tech company Modica Group used a business loan to their advantage
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Find out how Modica Group, a leading enterprise messaging platform, propelled their growing tech business forward with the help of a business loan.
Hard work pays off for fast-growing New Zealand technology company
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While it may not be a household name, Invenco’s self-service payment technology is used by thousands of New Zealanders, and millions globally, every day as they fuel up their vehicles.
Wayfare springs to success by putting people first
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The customer may always be right, but putting employees first is proving a winning formula for some fast-growing southern tourism entities.
Premium chocolate maker eyes up international markets
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When Lucy Bennetto was teaching drama in Dubai, she noticed that everything in restaurants was high end – except the drinking chocolate. With café culture continuing to grow, she realised there was a niche in the market.
No Ugly. Birth of a brand
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Start-up business, No Ugly, is out to liven up the ‘wellness’ world.