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Gilligan Sheppard has been supporting Cloud Union (New Zealand) Network Technology Limited to establish their New Zealand business and we were recently invited to their opening ceremony at MOTAT (Museum Of Transport And Technology). 150 delegates and investors came from China and another 150 New Zealand industrial and political leaders attended. Amongst the NZ supporters […]

My daughter’s school newsletter had an ad for ‘learn to skate’ classes so we turned up, hired some skates and started working our way through their badges at weekly sessions. We watched a demonstration of some young girls doing a routine to music from Pirates of the Caribbean and we were hooked. We both joined […]

A recent trip to India to meet with our outsourcing team led me to reflect on my experience of outsourcing, the benefits it has delivered to the firm and how it has become an essential part of our company. Outsourcing has become a common practice for businesses across a range of industries and services and […]

As part of a month-long family holiday in South Africa, Michael Vukcevic shares insights ‘out of Africa’. Quite an adventure so far. After fun and adventure in Sun City, we travelled south to Cape Town. Whilst there we experienced the worst storm to hit Cape Town in the last 30 years. Frankly, it was no […]

Recently I spent some time in Addis Ababa – I was on an IMF Mission working with the Ethiopian Customs and Revenue Authority. Addis is a city at 2,300 metres (so you notice when you climb stairs) and the climate is very temperate (I found it slightly cooler than Auckland and far less humid). Ethiopia […]