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

Noteworthy Staff2 days ago
Who is Les Mills? How an Auckland Olympian's Gym Became a Global Brand
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Who is Les Mills? How an Auckland Olympian's Gym Became a Global Brand

Noteworthy Staff6 days ago
Made Everywhere but Here: New Zealand's Quiet Billionaires
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Made Everywhere but Here: New Zealand's Quiet Billionaires

Noteworthy Staff2 weeks ago
Replace the Cow or Build on It: What New Zealand Food-Tech Learned
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Replace the Cow or Build on It: What New Zealand Food-Tech Learned

Noteworthy Staff2 weeks ago
Control, Not Scale: Six New Zealand Women Who Redefined Success
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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 Staff2 weeks ago
Boring on Purpose: The NZ Founders Who Built Moats Out of Regulation
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Business Leader & Philanthropist, Gattung Foundation

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Boring on Purpose: The NZ Founders Who Built Moats Out of Regulation

New Zealand celebrates consumer app heroes. Its most durable tech is built by founders who embed in regulated systems nobody notices.

Noteworthy Staff3 weeks ago
Christchurch Founder Launches LDOO, the Tool That Lets You Ask Your Data a Question
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Christchurch Founder Launches LDOO, the Tool That Lets You Ask Your Data a Question

After twenty years in digital marketing, Gideon Banks has launched LDOO, a conversational analytics tool that answers plain-English questions about your data in seconds instead of building dashboards.

Noteworthy Staff3 weeks ago
Fix the Product or Fix the Person: How NZ Fintech Founders Disagree About Money
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Fix the Product or Fix the Person: How NZ Fintech Founders Disagree About Money

Four NZ fintech founders, two theories of why people are locked out of money. One camp rebuilt the products. The other set out to teach.

Noteworthy Staff3 weeks ago
Sell, Stay or Franchise: Three Ways a New Zealand Brand Goes Global
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Sell, Stay or Franchise: Three Ways a New Zealand Brand Goes Global

Five NZ brands, three routes to going global, and what each one cost. Sell, stay independent, or franchise the model.

Noteworthy Staff21 Jun 2026
New Zealand Food-Tech Startups to Watch
food-tech

New Zealand Food-Tech Startups to Watch

New Zealand’s economy runs on food, and a growing group of founders are now applying biology, engineering and data to how protein itself is made.

Noteworthy Staff20 Jun 2026
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Hengjie Wang

Co-Founder & CEO, Kami

Phil Thomson

Phil Thomson

Co-Founder & CEO, Auror

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