NBR Podcasts

From biochemical engineer to RespirAq CEO -Sandra Grau-Bartual

RespirAq founder and CEO Sandra Grau-Bartual speaks with Fiona Rotherham. Sandra Grau-Bartual achieved a lot in her academic career before making the leap to entrepreneur and founder of respiratory technology startup RespirAq. The Spanish-born 32-year-old did her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering in Spain and then her masters in Belgium before travelling to New Zealand for a planned three-month holiday. Eight years on, she has become founding chief executive of a startup commercialising the first fundamentally new medical airway humidification technology in decades. Recorded August 31 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Juice wars heat up as Eden Orchards pushes hard into Australia - Eden Orchards

Eden Orchards general manager Cam Bignell with Jonathan Mitchell. Family-owned juice company Eden Orchards has an ambitious plan to disrupt the drinks market in Australia with its locally made products. The Alexandra-based business started life as an orchard 30 years ago by husband and wife Gary and Steph Bignell. Five years ago, the juice company was formed, with son Cam Bignell taking charge as general manager. With the local market now under control in specialty stores, a growing number of New World supermarkets, as well as online, Cam made the move to Australia in May to launch its retail footprint over the Tasman. Speaking to NBR from Melbourne, Cam said the pandemic had delayed its planned expansion. Recorded August 25 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Wild Dispensary mulls international markets as growth scales up - Ruth Vaughn

Wild Dispensary co-founder and managing director Ruth Vaughan speaks with Kate McVicar. Wild Dispensary mulls international markets as growth scales up - After five years, Otago natural health firm is profitable, debt free, set up to tackle next five-year growth plan. Take a drive through central Otago as the weather starts to warm and the days become longer, you might find the traditionally brown and rugged landscape dotted in pink puffs of wild thyme.  What started off as a passion project, after noticing an under-utilisation of wild herbs, has turned into a viable business with its eye on overseas markets.  Dunedin-based Wild Dispensary offers a product line of health tonics, from digestive bitters to specialised vinegars, formulated from local and foraged ingredients from around the Otago area. Recorded June 29 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Decentralising the internet from Kaiwaka - Joerg Buss - Entrepreneur Series

Darkscope founder Joerg Buss speaks with Will Mace. When Joerg Buss came into the NBR office this week to discuss his career as a cybersecurity company founder and search engine pioneer, it was only about the fourth time he’d travelled to Auckland this year. He mainly works from home at his property at Kaiwaka, a rural area on the shores of the Kaipara Harbour nearly two hours north of the central city. He hasn’t even been back to his homeland of Germany since making the move to New Zealand with his Kiwi wife in 2010, as his parents prefer to visit him in his new-found paradise. But despite his reclusiveness, Buss is potentially one of the most connected men in the country. - recorded August 16 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Walking the walk after talking the talk - Martin Bell

Java Hi-Fi founder and CEO Martin Bell speaks with Fiona Rotherham. Martin Bell has been working for the Auckland University of Technology for the past decade, the past four as director of entrepreneurship and innovation. He and others at the university try to ensure students with a business idea get support if they want to do a startup while studying or also the chance to develop entrepreneurial thinking as a tool for whatever career they ultimately choose. No wonder then that Bell didn’t hesitate to follow his passion when setting up a startup while still working a full-time job at the university. The idea for his high-end audio company Java Hi-Fi was germinated while Bell was in his late teens and first heard a high-end audio system playing in a store. Recorded August 10 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

From one million users in the first month to 70m worldwide - Entrepreneur Series

Lumin founder and CEO Max Ferguson speaks with Fiona Rotherham. Max Ferguson was working in construction in 2014 when he noticed some of the documents they were dealing with on site and in the office were getting lost. Either physically lost or buried deep in an online folder where those that needed them couldn’t find them. Like many entrepreneurs before him, he figured there had to be a better solution and built the original code for Lumin PDF over three weeks sitting in the bedroom of his parent’s West Coast farm, Waipuna Station. Recorded August 3 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Efforts to disrupt legal recruitment industry take flight - Your Business

Insource founder Jenn Little speaks with Dita De Boni. Contrary to hearing for years that the country’s law schools were pumping out too many graduates and flooding the workforce, there are, in fact, not enough – and those with the sought-after four to 10 years of experience are particularly scarce. Now the country’s borders are open, that perilously low number looks set to sink further, as mid-level lawyers flock to the UK and Australia for better money; in the UK, for example, starting at £125,000 ($240,000) – the same amount a senior might expect to receive this side of the globe. - recorded August 4 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

How to sell ’concepts and values’ as an entrepreneur - Entrepreneur Series

Drum Productions founder Stan Wolfgramm spoke with Calida Stuart-Menteath.

Stan Wolfgramm is a household name in New Zealand's film production scene. He founded Drum Productions 30 years ago as a theatre company, which has grown into New Zealand’s largest Pacific-owned-and-operated television broadcast, major events, cultural development and strategic communications company.

Drum Productions’ clients have included New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, NZ Film Commission, Tourism NZ, Te Papa, the US and UK’s embassies, the Rugby World Cup, Qantas, National Geographic, Armani, ANZ Bank and KPMG.

Recorded July 29 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Little ’Lato plots a path to growth in pandemic

Little ’Lato Founder Hannah Wood speaks with Jonathan Mitchell. Hannah Wood is a self-described gelato fanatic. She turned her love of all things gelato into a commercial business about five years ago, after working for some of the big players in the food industry, including dairy giant Fonterra. It was while on an excursion to Italy, after receiving a scholarship to study at the Carpigiani Gelato University in Bologna, where the seed was sowed to turn her love of gelato into a business. She opened a gelato bar and production kitchen in December 2017, before quickly expanding to other spots around Auckland the following year. Recorded July 27 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions

Māori boys going ‘full manu’ with Wai Mānuka - Wai Mānuka

Wai Mānuka managing director Joe Harawira speaks with Will Mace. Joe Harawira (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Te Rangi) is the managing director of premium non-alcoholic drink brand Wai Mānuka and part of the product’s founding triumvirate, known as the Three Māori Boys. From a young age, Harawira was struck with an ambition to be of service to his community, whether through joining the army or running athlete wellbeing programmes for the NRL and eventually New Zealand Rugby. His MBA study switched him on to entrepreneurship, while a casual New Year’s Eve chat with his friends Wayne Atkins and Lance Paora led to the birth of the Wai Mānuka drink brand.  Recorded July 26 2022. The authority in NZ business news since 1970 www.nbr.co.nz/subscriptions