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Idealog—in the ideas business

  • Leitíssimo strikes dairy gold in Brazil [Leitissimo strikes dairy gold in Brazil]

    2011-08-01 12:06:13 // // Idealog #34: features
    A combination of Kiwi practices, verdant land and cash from clued-up investors like Sam Morgan yields Leitíssimo three times the production it would generate in New Zealand. Is this the end of our dairy industry - or the next step for IP?
  • Business at the speed of slow

    2008-01-21 09:34:51 // // Idealog #13: workshop
    Londoners refuse to be rushed by an upstart from the colonies, but you can do business at British pace
  • City slickers

    2007-11-30 05:58:57 // // Idealog #12: now
    They may be making our tourism ads over there, but we’re branding their cities back here
  • The joke's on us

    2007-11-28 12:56:57 // // Idealog #12: workshop | 1 comment
    New Zealand-ness is in demand. So why are we importing it?
  • It'a jungle out there

    2007-11-28 12:55:40 // // Idealog #12: workshop
    A Kiwi institution is set to go global. Can it keep its homegrown mojo?
  • Poor fortune

    2007-11-16 14:06:18 // // Idealog #12: features | 2 comments
    A meeting with Fred Hollows set Ray Avery on a new career. Kiwi entrepreneurs are breaking the Third World poverty trap with money, new business models and smart ideas—and selling the same things to the pampered West. Lauren Bartlett unearths the fortune at the bottom of the heap. Plus: The startups sparking Third World innovation.
  • Patronised painter

    2007-11-08 05:56:31 // // Idealog #12: now
    Leonardo da Vinci had one. So did Raphael. Now our own Kelcy Taratoa is flourishing under the creatively liberating breeze of the patron’s dollar
  • In search of a happy ending

    2007-09-25 13:04:42 // // Idealog #11: features
    Some hard touring and an inspired collaboration with Taika Waititi are building The Phoenix Foundation’s profile Stateside. The question is, can they make it pay?
  • Disney's Kiwi misfits

    2007-08-30 09:56:21 // // Idealog #11: features
    Taika Waititi’s movie about a couple of Kiwi misfits, was never intended for an overseas audience—but it’s showing on screens across the US courtesy of The Walt Disney Company, complete with a killer soundtrack by fellow Wellingtonians The Phoenix Foundation. Peter Griffin follows their road to the Magic Kingdom
  • Good golly, Miss Hollie

    2007-07-11 23:00:00 // // Idealog #10: features | 2 comments
    Hollie Smith’s debut album is probably the most anticipated Kiwi release this year. Sassy, smart and local, good golly, could Miss Hollie go global? The first step: turn down iconic label Blue Note and pick a subsidiary instead. Russell Brown talks to Northcote’s next big thing