Understand the path to export success with our new Export Essentials service and resources - whether you're starting out, or looking to get better results from your efforts. Plus a look at upcoming Techweek'17 events to help your scale your business globally, industry news, and careers with NZTE.

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Building an international business from New Zealand can be tough. NZTE's Export Essentials workshops and guides can help you arrive in-market better prepared, better equipped and more likely to succeed in competitive international markets.
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise
Export News
27 April / Paengawhāwhā 2017

Kia ora Max,

Nau mai ki tēnei Pānui Tuku Rawa o Rāwāhi. Welcome to this week's Export News.

In this special edition, we shine the spotlight on a new service designed to help businesses learn the fundamentals of becoming a successful export business - be it understanding your export pricing options, your in-market competitors or your export costs.

Building an international business from New Zealand can be tough - so Export Essentials has been created to help help you arrive in-market better prepared, better equipped and more likely to succeed in competitive international markets. Read on and find Export Essentials workshops in your area below.

We're also bringng you four exciting events as part of the upcoming Techweek '17, focussed on helping you successfully scale your businesses to deliver products and services globally.

Plus, our usual range of industry news, and some exciting new roles with NZTE for people keen to help us grow New Zealand businesses bigger, better and faster internationally.

Enjoy!

Introducing Export Essentials Introducing Export Essentials
NZTE's Export Essentials workshops are hands-on, interactive sessions designed to give you tools and skills you can put to work straight away in your business.
Learn proven approaches to global growth

We've launched a new service designed to help businesses learn the fundamentals of export success. Export Essentials includes two components - ten online guides that cover the basics of exporting, for you to work through at any time that suits, and a hands-on, collaborative two-day workshop where you'll learn proven methods for successful exporting and leave with practical tools that you can apply straight away in your business. 

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Export Essentials Guides Export Essentials Guides
Exporting places many additional pressures on you, your business, finances, your people, and your processes. Honesty is key when assessing your capability. If you identify limitations early, you will know precisely where to strengthen your business to put you in the best position to succeed.

Our online Export Essentials guides will help you cover all the fundamentals of becoming a successful export business  walking you through everything from logistics to pricing.

See all the guides on our website here.

Get started by taking a look at our guide to Understanding your Capability and Capacity. This Export Essentials guide takes you through key considerations to ensure you plan for the right people skills and production capacity to meet increased demand and growth.

Explore the essentials
Export Essentials Workshops Export Essentials Workshops
Attend one of our upcoming Export Essentials workshops and get the tools and confidence you need to select the right market, the right channel and the right partner to help you to understand the pathway to export success.
Register now for Export Essentials Workshops

Christchurch, Wellington, Napier, Nelson and Auckland - we're headed your way! Attend one of our upcoming Export Essentials workshops and get the tools and confidence you need to select the right market, the right channel and the right partner to help you to understand the pathway to export success.

Wellington: 10 & 24 May

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Chch: 31 May & 14 June

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Auckland: 21 June & 5 July

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Nelson: 26 July & 9 August

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Napier: 16 & 30 August

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Market Guides Market Guides
NZTE's market guides are designed to help you get things done in-market - from getting around, to securing meetings, navigating cultural differences and thinking about business models for market entry.

From Australia to the United Kingdom, our market guides are full of insights about opportunities available for Kiwi businesses, as well as tips and tricks for successfully doing business in over 30 countries.

View our guides
Market Research Market Research
Market research lets you look beyond the complexity of a market to figure out what's happening and how you can fit into the competitive landscape. Our market research is a great place to start.

From food and beverage in Russia, to the latest information about the Chinese food and beverage market, take a look at our research on specific sectors.

Browse our research
Tools and Templates Tools and Templates
Having the right tools makes any job faster, easier and less painful - and exporting is no different. Stock up your export toolkit with our resources available online now.

Our tools and templates are designed to accompany our Export Essentials Guides - giving structure and clarity to your thought processes and allowing you to reflect on your business needs. Use them to make well-informed decisions that are grounded in analysis, and to prepare yourself properly for new markets.

Explore our tools
Techweek '17 Techweek '17
Techweek’17 is a unifying platform for curated events, conversations and initiatives throughout the country - and it's just around the corner! This is your unique chance to be part of a conversation that champions NZ tech, innovation and design brilliance to the world.

Techweek’17 is a unifying platform for curated events, conversations and initiatives throughout the country - and it's just around the corner! This is your unique chance to be part of a conversation that champions NZ tech, innovation and design brilliance to the world.

We're hosting four events during Techweek'17, to help you learn how to successfully scale your business and deliver products and services globally.  From a webinar focussed on raising capital in South East Asia, to live interviews with Kiwi tech companies who have successfully created a scalable export sales model, there’s something for everyone. Check out the events below.

Find out why South East Asia should be on your radar as a potential source of capital, which markets you should focus on within the region, how to make the right decisions, and how to navigate each market's regulations and processes.
9 May: Webinar - Raising Capital in South East Asia

Find out why South East Asia should be on your radar as a potential source of capital, which markets you should focus on within the region, how to make the right decisions, and how to navigate each market's regulations and processes. This is open to any business (tech or otherwise) wanting to learn more about raising capital, with a South East Asian focus.

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We've designed this event to nurture relationships between SaaS companies and CIOs. Get a chance to pitch your SaaS business to CIOs, gain insight into the CIO mindset and build capability and networks to strengthen your foundations to compete on a global scale.
9 May: Know the SaaS in your Backyard - Wellington

We've designed this event to nurture relationships between SaaS companies and CIOs. Get a chance to pitch your SaaS business to CIOs, gain insight into the CIO mindset and build capability and networks to strengthen your foundations to compete on a global scale.

Register
Join a live interview format event for founders, CEOs, Cx, and investors of Kiwi technology companies with big export ambitions. Delve into the detail of a scalable sales model, and learn how to strengthen your sales operations to compete in export markets.
10 May: Play by the Book - Auckland

Join a live interview format event for founders, CEOs, Cx, and investors of Kiwi technology companies with big export ambitions. Delve into the detail of a scalable sales model, and learn how to strengthen your sales operations to compete in export markets.

Register
Based on our well-known NZ8 Summits, this special, wider-format version will take you through the big rocks for scaling in the North American market. Inspired by a recent NZ8 Summit with Garage Venture’s very own Bill Reichert, we'll distil Bill's 10 Scale Up rules to live by with Kiwi business leaders who have been there, done that, and have the scars to prove it.
12 May: NZ8 Basecamp - Auckland

Based on our well-known NZ8 Summits, this special, wider-format version will take you through the big rocks for scaling in the North American market. Inspired by a recent NZ8 Summit with Garage Venture’s very own Bill Reichert, we'll distil Bill's 10 Scale Up rules to live by with Kiwi business leaders who have been there, done that, and have the scars to prove it.

Register
Industry news Industry news
Auckland-based Healthy Breath Ltd launched its new anti-pollution face mask, known as the MEO, last week in Auckland. Designed in collaboration with Walker for export to international markets – particularly China, India and South-East Asia – Healthy Breath Ltd president David Gao says a key differentiator for the MEO range is its use of a unique wool blend scientifically developed by Lanaco in New Zealand.
MEO - a fashion-forward face mask that could save lives

Karen Walker has lent her talents to help design a face mask with a simple goal: to help people in polluted places live longer.

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New Zealand to participate in Expo 2020 in Dubai
New York Times: NZ looks globally to grow its tech industry
Meet the Kiwi chef introducing our cuisine to Chinese diners
Premium NZ lamb hitting its stride in India
Manawatu family skincare business breaking into Singapore
Careers Careers
Business Development Manager, Moscow - closes 21 May

Got what it takes to support New Zealand businesses to grow in the Russian market? We're recruiting for a business development manager to work independently from our Moscow office, leading NZTE's Russia efforts (on a fixed-term, part-time basis).

Apply now
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Business Development Manager, Shanghai - closes 5 May

We're looking for a commercially savvy, well-networked business development manager to help us grow New Zealand FMCG businesses in China - if this sounds like you, join us and put your know-how and know-who to work in our Shanghai office.

Apply now
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