The American Chamber of Commerce in New Zealand has announced the finalists for the 2012 AmCham-DHL Express Success and Innovation Awards.
Mike Hearn, Executive Director for AmCham, says 2012 has seen another strong group of entrants, covering diverse range of products and services from water to wine, nutraceuticals to salmon, software technology to kilns and baggage handling systems.
“Trade with the USA continues to run around $9 billion however over the last year we have seen more New Zealand companies entering the US market, setting up offices and hiring staff,” says Hearn.
“It has also been a very positive year for inbound investment with a record number of nominations for the Investor of the Year to or from the USA award.”
The finalists are:
Importer of the Year
Cavit & Co Limited,
Nature's Sunshine Products (NZ) Ltd
Seychelle Water Filter Ltd
Tidd Ross Todd Ltd
Investor of the Year to or from the USA
Endeavour Capital Ltd
Fiserv, Inc.
General Electric (GE)
Mighty River Power Ltd
Exporter of the Year to the USA $1 to $500,000
Abel Software Ltd
Red Witch Analog Ltd
Exporter of the Year to the USA $500,001 to $5m
BCS Group Ltd
Kono NZ LP
Mt Cook Alpine Salmon Ltd
Vista Entertainment Solutions Ltd
Windsor Engineering Group Ltd
Exporter of the Year to the USA over $5m
Natural History New Zealand Ltd
Serato Inv LP
TRU-TEST Ltd
Yealands Estate Wines
One of the above will be chosen as the Supreme winner. The awards will be presented at a black tie gala dinner at the Pullman Hotel Auckland on 9th August. Robert Tapert (Hercules, Xena & Spartacus) will be the keynote speaker with David Slack as the MC. For detail and tickets see www.amcham.co.nz
Previous winners of the Supreme Award have included Zespri International, Peace Software, Airways Corporation, HumanWare, Tenon, Orion Health, Zeacom, SMI Group, Fonterra and Pratt & Whitney Air New Zealand Services t/a Christchurch Engine Centre, Buckley Systems.
