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Built Here, Sold There: Inside New Zealand’s Game Studios

Built Here, Sold There: Inside New Zealand’s Game Studios

A New Zealander made one of the biggest games of the decade, walked away from it, and came home to build a studio in Dunedin. His story is the whole country’s games industry in miniature: build something the world wants, then decide whether to keep it or sell it.

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Charleez Chicken & Chips: The National Brand With No Stores of Its Own

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How a Volunteer Group Helped Win New Zealand's 1.5-Metre Rule

How a Volunteer Group Helped Win New Zealand's 1.5-Metre Rule

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How Graeme Hart Made His Money and Became New Zealand's Richest Man

How Graeme Hart Made His Money and Became New Zealand's Richest Man

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Off the Map: The Kiwi Businesses Google Barely Shows

Off the Map: The Kiwi Businesses Google Barely Shows

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OCC Apparel: The Ethical Apparel and Merchandise Partner for New Zealand Brands

OCC Apparel: The Ethical Apparel and Merchandise Partner for New Zealand Brands

Buying one ethical tee is easy. Buying five hundred, and proving the label holds up, is a different job. OCC Apparel has spent twenty-two years, and a careful set of brand partnerships, learning to do exactly that.

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Allbirds: The Kiwi Wool Shoe That Took On the World

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Allbirds: The Kiwi Wool Shoe That Took On the World

A wool trainer from a Kickstarter, built on New Zealand merino and a Kiwi footballer’s idea, became a six billion dollar Wall Street company. Then it had to learn the harder half of the sustainability lesson.

Noteworthy Staff3 weeks ago

Who is Les Mills? How an Auckland Olympian's Gym Became a Global Brand

Les Mills was the Auckland Olympian who opened a gym in 1968. He died on 29 June 2026, aged 91. The global brand that carries his name is what his family built from that room.

Noteworthy Staff17 Jul 2026

Made Everywhere but Here: New Zealand's Quiet Billionaires

Made Everywhere but Here: New Zealand's Quiet Billionaires

New Zealand's largest fortunes were built offshore by its most private people. What that says about the country depends on how you read the silence.

Noteworthy Staff6 Jul 2026

Replace the Cow or Build on It: What New Zealand Food-Tech Learned

Replace the Cow or Build on It: What New Zealand Food-Tech Learned

Three food-tech founders, three bets on how to change what New Zealand sells the world. One broke, one held and one bet on the movement itself.

Noteworthy Staff5 Jul 2026

Control, Not Scale: Six New Zealand Women Who Redefined Success

Control, Not Scale: Six New Zealand Women Who Redefined Success

The default measure of success is scale. Six NZ women defined it as control instead, from building an empire to keeping a label deliberately small.

Noteworthy Staff4 Jul 2026

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Kelly Tarlton

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Property Developer & Philanthropist, Mansons TCLM

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