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The Hello Cup founders to speak at Napier business breakfast
17 May, 2021 04:04 AM
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The Hello Cup founders Mary Bond (left) and Robyn McLean. Photo / Supplied
Hawkes Bay Today
Two business owners who turned a small side project into an international business will be the first speakers at Napier City Council s 2021 Business Breakfast series.
The Hello Cup founders Mary Bond, from Wellington, and Robyn McLean, from Havelock North founded the company on the belief that sustainable period choices are needed.
They had no business background between them, but their small start-up began getting noticed.
American retailer Urban Outfitters emailed out of the blue asking to stock The Hello Cup and they now have US equity partners and more than 150 retailers globally.
Expedition leaders L-R: Jason Edmunds, Anja Erdmann-Rutten and Adam Rheborg A big challenge in expedition cruising is matching and exceeding guest expectations in the field, says Anja Erdmann-Rutten, expedition leader with Poseidon Expeditions.
21 years in the business, Erdmann-Rutten was talking to Seatrade Cruise group director Mary Bond during Seatrade Cruise Virtual: Expedition Cruising.
Poseidon Expeditions
Poseidon operates 114-guest Sea Spirit seasonally in the Arctic and Antarctica and in summer, sails 50 Years of Victory to the North Pole.
She has experience of working both in the office and onboard and is well placed to see the view from both sides, she relates. ‘Guests want to see wildlife and nature close up like the imagery that is often portrayed in the sales brochures but is it realistic? she asks. ‘Can it set wrong expectations? Definitely,’ she feels and do these pictures make life onboard easy? ‘Definitely not,’ she claims.
Winners in the 2020 Grantham Journal Business Awards are revealed
| Updated: 17:17, 25 January 2021
We are proud to reveal the winners in the 2020 Grantham Journal Business Awards.
The Covid-19 pandemic has made it more important than ever before to celebrate businesses in the Grantham area, where teams have put blood, sweat and tears into keeping going in what has been unprecedented difficult times.
Sadly, we have been unable to hold the usual glittering awards night, nor a more low-key presentation event, due to coronavirus restrictions.
Grantham Journal Business Awards (3286651)
Instead, we are today revealing the winners and will publish a 16-page special supplement in Friday s Journal.
A firm believer in the power of education, Mary Bond McMahan encouraged her students “to open windows to see out, open doors to get out and open books to find