Namaste
Thank you Council President Mr Chandar Sen for the introduction, and thank you, members of the executive committee, for the opportunity to be here with you today.
COVID-19
I would like to begin by acknowledging the challenges our Fiji vuvale
[ Voo-varl-lay ] are facing at this time in dealing with the current COVID-19 outbreak. As all of us in this room know, an outbreak of COVID-19 is challenging, frightening and unsettling.
On behalf of the New Zealand Government I would like to pass on my thoughts to the friends and whānau of those who have lost loved ones, and those whose loved ones are battling the effects of this awful virus.
Tuesday, 20 April 2021, 1:51 pm
Winning the “brand battle” is the key to success for
New Zealand’s exporters – making sure that consumers
know about their products, and why they should buy
them.
New Zealand Trade & Enterprise, the
government’s international business development agency,
has released research that highlights the key challenges
faced by exporters.
The research, ‘Exporting
Challenges and Responses of New Zealand Firms’, is now
available on NZTE’s website.
It
was commissioned to support the Productivity Commission’s
major investigation into ‘frontier
firms’, released today.
The NZTE research
revealed that the five major challenges for New Zealand
exporters were building brand awareness; finding the right
Source: New Zealand Government
I acknowledge our whānau overseas, joining us from Te Whenua Moemoeā, and I wish to pay respects to their elders past, present, and emerging.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you all today. I am very pleased to be part of the conversation on Indigenous business, and part of an event that facilitates relationship building between Aotearoa-New Zealand and Australian Indigenous businesses.
I came in to my role at a time of great challenge for businesses. Against the backdrop of increasing threats to the global trading system and rising protectionism in our key markets, we now also face an uncertain headwind that none of us could have seen coming – COVID-19.
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