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"BNZ Partners is delighted to be playing a significant role in The ICEHOUSE. By sharing our expertise and providing mentoring advice and assistance, we aim to help the entrepreneurs of the future grow their businesses."

"BNZ is committed to the improvement of business capability in our small and medium size enterprise client base. We see the development of entrepreneurship within the New Zealand marketplace as essential to the future growth of this country. A key way in which we do this is through supporting The ICEHOUSE business growth programmes"

John Hastings, National Managing Partner

  

At BNZ, we’ve always seen our role as helping clients to realise their potential; to support them through the ups and downs of business life. We’re a founding partner of The ICEHOUSE, and through the years, we’ve pointed hundreds of our business customers in the direction of The ICEHOUSE’s Business Growth Programmes. We’ve witnessed some staggering results too, including huge growth offshore, company expansions and acquisitions.

We’re committed to making it easier for our clients to get the support they need. This commitment has been strengthened by the launch of BNZ Partners – our way of bringing relationship managers and banking specialists closer to your business.

As a BNZ Partners client, you’ll have your own dedicated Partner who has access to specialist knowledge in the business, agribusiness, and wealth management sectors. Partners across the country work closely with their clients to get a deep understanding of their business. By knowing your business and the market you operate in, they’re able to help you make vital decisions for your business (and they have a high level of autonomy in the decision making process, too).

We look forward to talking to you about how we can work together to help your business be better off. To get in touch with a BNZ Partner today, check out our Partner locator, and if you’d like any further information about BNZ Partners, visit our Partners’homepage.

 

 BNZ Weekly Overview - Tony Alexander
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Andrew Hamilton contributes to BNZ Tony Alexander Weekly Overview.

A Cathartic Year for Small Business
As the 2009 year draws to a close and as the ICEHOUSE’s first contribution to Tony Alexander’s BNZ Overview I thought I would provide some reflections on what we have seen in the market and then some thoughts on the year ahead in 2010.

Business owners have told us that 2009 has been a tough year. It started with an interesting difference between the relative performance across the cities and regions. In the first half of the year we saw businesses in the main centres really struggling for pipeline, revenue, margin and ultimately cash flow. They could not get the costs in their business out quick enough while the regions did not seem to be affected at all and were bullish and confident. How quickly this reversed and changed through winter with the first signs of recovery coming as spring arrived in the centres, while my visits to the region showed quite a bit of paralysis and not the optimism that we saw earlier in the year.... Read Article

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