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May 22, 2012
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It takes a week to fully test the strength of a
new bike frame. It took 25 years for Avanti to start pushing into the
rest of the world. From home-made BMX frames to a high-tech racing
outfit, the bike brand is striding ahead – and now looking to steal more
than its fair share of the global market.
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The 2011 private equity deal of the year has been awarded to Pacific Equity Partners, which sold out from
Tegel Foods at nearly four times its initial investment. Poultry producer Tegel was sold to Affinity
Equity Partners Funds in May, generating an overall
return to PEP Fund investors of 3.9 times their money and an
internal rate of return of 101 percent.
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Vend has proven itself somewhat of an overachiever in the burgeoning Kiwi SaaS (software as a service) space (we say that with love). After claiming not one but two prizes at the Innovators Awards, founder Vaughan Rowsell waxed poetic about revolutionising retail and how to do technology from New Zealand. Or something like that.
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With
most of the talk ahead of November’s election on the downturn in the
economy and the rebuilding of Christchurch, the environment and
conservation are in danger of being seen as unaffordable luxuries in
these hard times. But Forest and Bird says they’re more important
than ever.
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Famine relief in the 21st century: eat like a refugee, stay off Facebook, set up a Twitter swear jar. Not one charitable project, but 50, this is the brainchild of social innovation lab Good for Nothing.
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AUT’s interdisciplinary creative technology centre, Colab,
has over the years hosted numerous handy workshops on all things creative. Its
newest venture? Marker, an
innovative public programme of hands-on, design and technology focused
workshops giving you the
opportunity to learn a unique set of skills, meet creative people and make
something to take away.
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