NBR Podcasts

Material Creative turns homes into hotels, offices into homes - Liv Patience

Material Creative co-founder and director Liv Patience talks to Dita de Boni. Material Creative turns homes into hotels, offices into homes Small Business Series: Auckland-based interior architects/design experts evolved their business between the GFC and Covid-19. Recorded November 10 2022. For the full interview, article and conversation; try out our free trial click link: https://bit.ly/3UUF4dY

 

From a $1500 investment to $300,000 revenue in three years - Jules Craft

Department of Art co-founder Jules Craft speaks with Nicholas Pointon. Department of Arts co-founder Jules Craft talks music festivals, mission statements, and the trauma of the pandemic. The Department of Arts is rapidly becoming a household name in the music and event industry. The Auckland-based creative experience agency – which designs, fabricates and installs stages, lighting and artwork for events – had become the go-to agency for big-name music festivals such as Rhythm and Vines and Splore, and is slowly making headwinds in the advertising industry, designing events for Red Bull and a host of alcohol companies. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Cardrona Distillery raises capital for international expansion - Desiree Reid

Cardrona Distillery founder Desiree Reid speaks with Fiona Rotherham. South Island distillery releases new seven-year aged whisky. Cardrona Distillery is releasing bottles of its seven-year aged whisky, Full Flight, to mark the latest anniversary of when it laid its first cask in November 2015. Founder Desiree Reid says her original plan was to wait until the whisky had aged for 10 years before releasing it on the market in 2025 but she changed her mind after a visit in 2018. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Seadon Baker’s ilabb drives into Canada - Seadon Baker

ilabb founder Seadon Baker speaks with Calida Stuart-Menteath. Riding to new heights: former pro motocross racer on capital raising, networking with big investors, and staying motivated. Former pro motocross rider Seadon Baker co-founded Kiwi apparel brand ilabb in 2007 as a response to the lack of identity in the action sports industry in New Zealand. Baker, who left school at 16 to pursue an international professional motocross career, started ilabb when he was 21, along with fellow pro racer Matt Saunders. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

From surf life saving to health and safety - Nathan Hight & Gerry Lynch

Safe365 co-founder Nathan Hight and Govn365 CEO Gerry Lynch speak with Will Mace. Safe365 founder on raising safety standards and launching Govn365 off-shoot. Two contrasting surf lifesaving experiences were vital in forming the basis for Nathan Hight’s career in health and safety technology and the development of Safe365 and its recently-launched off-shoot Govn365. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Life after Hatch - Kristen Lunman

Hatch co-founder and chief executive Kristen Lunman speaks with Jonathan Mitchell. Entrepreneur Kristen Lunman talks Hatch exit, fintech, and women in leadership aspirations. Hatch co-founder and chief executive Kristen Lunman decided to exit the investment platform after four years of building it from the ground up. Recorded October 19 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 https://www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

The weatherman aiming for better forecasts - Greg Bodeker

Bodeker Scientific CEO Greg Bodeker speaks with Fiona Rotherham. Climate scientist Greg Bodeker is something of a serial entrepreneur much more interested in chasing new ideas and delivering good science than making money off it. He has four companies on the go, has just shut down another joint venture, and admits it’s all a bit chaotic. Doomed to failure then, you might say. Maybe commercially, but that could come down to how you judge success. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Computer Recycling equipped for expansion - Computer Recycling

Computer recycling managing director Patrick Moynahan speaks with Kate McVicar in this week small business series. What started off as a chance encounter dropping off some electronic waste has turned into a rapidly expanding business with big plans for managing director Patrick Moynahan. Founded about 13 years ago, Computer Recycling, headquartered in Penrose, Auckland, takes electronics that would otherwise end up in the rubbish and recycles them by remaking the product or shredding it and separating the different materials. Listen to find out more! The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Accidental entrepreneur Terry Miller just wanted to play - Terry Miller

Eight360 founder Terry Miller speaks with Will Mace. Terry Miller may have accidentally designed the world’s first untethered, spherical virtual reality simulator in a Petone garage, but he’s now very purposefully going about commercialising it. It’s a “hobby that got out of hand”, he told NBR with a modesty that belies his recognition as Young Engineer of the Year and finalist in the NZ HiTech Awards’ ‘inspiring individual’ category for 2022. The goal has never been fame or riches, Miller said, but merely to indulge his lifelong fascination for playing with cool technology. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Local menu-planning firm offers the ‘Spotify of food’ - MenuAid

MenuAid co-founder Toby Skilton speaks with Dita De Boni. Meal kits have transformed dinner time for thousands of New Zealand families and while the big brands wax and wane in popularity, the segment continues to be worth millions of dollars each year. Customers who stick with the kits love the fact they remove indecision and lethargy over dinner options and come with everything needed to make weekly meals. Others however have fallen out of love with their inflexibility and expense. A Christchurch startup called MenuAid is aiming to disrupt New Zealand’s relatively new meal kit market with something slightly different, which it claims is better: a subscription, worth as little as $4 a week, to personalised recipes put together by high-profile chefs with automatic shopping lists attached. To see more of this content head to www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions