Better Exporting Meetup – Health & Beauty

Are you an ambitious and motivated Health & Beauty business with global growth aspirations?

We would love to see you and members of your team at our meetup to chat openly with fellow New Zealand exporters. Presenters for the morning are from Ethique, Lifestream International and Parrs Products. They will talk all things Health & Beauty, give a Covid-19 update and follow with how they have previously and are currently succeeding globally through the application of best practice across all elements of their international growth strategy.

ExportNZ is a community of exporters providing each other with the inspiration, collegial support and advice to allow their business to prosper. We see incredible power in companies learning from and listening to other companies’ experiences in different markets and sectors. These meetups allow great opportunity to gain insight and inspiration on international growth strategies and ability to talk to like-minded individuals to exchange ideas, gain support and obtain advice. To help facilitate the valuable exchange of ideas amongst the group, these events are run in a relaxed, less structured format, and are highly interactive.

Highlights of the meetup:

• You receive unexpected valuable information.
• You will likely hear about problems that you haven’t faced yet, but will in the future.
• Although you may not be aware of the issue yet, hearing solutions from other professionals will help you plan accordingly
• Input from many experts with varying perspectives which produces new thinking that challenges existing best practices

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Sarah Kennedy,CEO, Calocurb Ltd 

Sarah is a results driven leader with a proven record of growing companies through innovation and strategic acquisitions. She has extensive operating and management experience with two successful companies – Lifestream  International – a NZ Natural Health company, and Calocurb – a weight management product,  which is a direct to consumer e-commerce company which  was commercialized after 8 years of Government backed science with Plant and Food Research. The company currently sells in 6 International markets and continues to grow rapidly through product extensions and geographies.

Sarah was formerly with Fonterra and held roles as Vice President International Farming based in China, Managing Director of Dairy Nutrition, and Managing Director of RD1- Fonterra’s chain of rural retail stores. Prior to joining Fonterra in 2011 she had more than 20 years’ experience in dietary and animal nutrition, including ten years as Managing Director of Healtheries/Vitaco NZ Ltd. During her time at Healtheries, she trebled the company sales and then oversaw the merger of Healtheries and Nutralife to form Vitaco the third largest Health and Wellbeing company in the Australasian market.

Andrew Rainham, Business Development Manager, Parrs Products Ltd

With over 10 years’ experience retail and brand side selling local kiwi products to discerning buyers around the world, Andrew knows what it takes to stand out in a cluttered crowd, and own a unique kiwi story that deeply resonates cross-culturally to build a truly global brand community. 

At Parrs Products, Andrew leads a multi-functional team that is responsible for business development and marketing across the  Asia-pacific, Europe and U.S markets; working with some of the world’s largest retailers and distributors covering travel retail, grocery, pharmacy, health food and department store.

Joanna Guelland, International Customer Experience and Markets Strategist, Antipodes New Zealand Limited

Antipodes is a Scientifically Validated Organic Beauty™ brand pioneering a new niche in skincare globally: certified organic and premium natural products with skin performance proven by science. Featuring revolutionary Vinanza antioxidants from New Zealand.

Joanna joined the Antipodes team in 2018 as their International Customer Experience and Markets Strategist.  Her career has been in International Marketing with 14 years with NZTE, 8 years of this was in their office in Germany and later back in New Zealand in their Wellington office. Prior experience has been with Fonterra and BP to name a few.

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For this event, we are accepting registrations from Exporting businesses only.

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