Council News & Events
Upcoming Events
Presentation by Villa Maria Estate Ltd, 23 February 2012
Villa Maria was the initial and is now the largest exporter of NZ wines to Korea.
This presentation will be at their winery in Mangere.
Past Events
MOU with Export NZ, Signed 8 November 2011
Presentations from the 27th Joint Meeting, 28th June 2011
Economic cooperation between Korea and New Zealand - Yong-Koo Bae, CEO CY Global
Below are the PowerPoint slides used by Simon Bunn, Chief Technical Officer of Derceto Ltd, when he did a presentation to Council members on 14 April 2011.
Click here for the Derceto Powerpoint Presentation
KNZBC - Export Group Urges National Government to Bolster Trade Agencies, Not Cut Them
The Korea New Zealand Business Council, representing the business interests of New Zealand exporters to Korea strongly urges the National Government to be very careful when addressing funding issues to the state sector to ensure that New Zealand’s key trade Agencies, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise continue to be well funded.
Philip Eustace, Chairman of KNZBC states, “New Zealand needs to sell its goods and services to the world; the staff of both MFAT and NZTE do a great job and are under-resourced as it is”. “There are FTA’s under negotiation with a number of countries and our trade offices struggle to be heard overseas when competing with the big budgets of larger economies”.
There needs to be a clear strategy employed by the government if it is looking to bring the private sector efficiencies to the public sector and they need to look closely at how we derive our income and how we can bolster the “New Zealand sales force”.
“There are huge opportunities in Korea and other Eastern economies for New Zealand to develop its business, but there is still an underlying lack of knowledge about New Zealand and its resources in those countries”,says Philip Eustace,” and we need our trade officials to be working hard in the field with the appropriate resources to tell the New Zealand story to as many potential customers as possible”
“Quite frankly if New Zealand was a business along with cutting expenditure in unproductive areas, management would be looking hard at what the business could do to lift sales. Having a well-resourced sales force in the field would be one of the first measures to be taken”, finishes Mr Eustace.
For Further Information Contact Philip Eustace on 0274 950 874 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Fergus McLean, Executive Director, KNZBC on 0275 718 178 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The Korea New Zealand Business Council is a voluntary group of New Zealand companies, organisations and Government Agencies involved in promoting increased business between Korea and New Zealand It provides useful networking opportunities for members and a forum for information and discussion of issues relevant to the commercial relationship between the two countries.
