New Zealand update 18 April

Hi Everyone….. This is the first of a weekly update that we will get out to you to keep you in the loop with happenings in New Zealand.
The level of activity will start to pick up as we are start booking group meetings and other sponsoring activities into May and beyond.
Here are some of the highlights:-

Savour New Zealand

This is New Zealand’s premier event for food and wine lovers. This is an annual event held over 3 days in one of Auckland’s premier hotels The Langham.
Savour New Zealand is a powerful showcase of taste experiences, new ideas and techniques. It provides greater understanding of the essence of great wines and truly great cooking.
Food presenters and chefs from around the world will be showcasing their talents over three days of classes where invariably the attendees will show their delight whilst being immersed in the complete food and wine experience.
The Chefs Toolbox is providing product for all the demonstration kitchens. We are also setting up the cooking shop on site. The shop will be equipped with a Fisher and Paykel kitchen and we will be demonstrating our cookware throughout the 3 days of the event.
Recruiting, Product sales and Party bookings will also be made from the shop and we are expecting a high level of activity with the 1,500 attendees.
Cath Jetter and Rhonda Ross will be joining us in New Zealand for this event; I think they are going to be two very busy ladies.

Netball New Zealand
We are continuing our demonstrations with the Regional Managers of Netball NZ. There are 12 regions throughout NZ ( North & South Island’s) and each Region is responsible for a number of Netball centre’s ranging from 2 to approx12 per centre’s per Region, covering all 140,000 Netball Members.
We are setting up a variety of activities with each Region including Fund raising events where TCT will have the opportunity to recruit, sell product and take party bookings.
May is the peak fundraising time for this sport so it is anticipated May will be a big month for these events.
There are a variety of other activities in place such as coverage in their Website’s, Centre Magazines, Awards presentations, sponsoring recipe books etc.
We are looking forward to a win: win ongoing relationship with Netball NZ.

Parenting Centre New Zealand
We are almost home on negotiating an agreement with this group and anticipate completion before the end of this week.
They have 52 Centre’s throughout NZ with 8,000 Members nationwide. They are all our demographic ie. Mums with children under 5, the majority does not work or only work part time.
They will provide us again with recruiting opportunities, Product sale and Party booking opportunities.
Will keep you posted!

Still to go are:-
Rural Women of NZ
Business Women’s Network
Contours Women’s Gyms

Wanganui High School
We have booked a fund raiser event with this school for 100 people for the 15th May 2008; this event actually came from our sponsorship with Netball NZ

We are also about to sign on with:-
Womenz The premier online group in NZ
Kiwi Families A large online group with the perfect demographic for us

May is shaping up to be a busy month. As we schedule events we will advise you. We will give you as much notice as we can. I am there next week to lock down dates of events with several of the groups so we will start to arrange trips after the ANZAC week-end.

Operations
NZ Post is ready to go as soon as we are online. We had a visit today from the Senior NZ Post Manager responsible for Australia, Rachael Manson and her Team. They love our Products and were very impressed with our facility and the care we put into our shipments. This has developed into a very strong relationship and I must say NZ Post is bending over backwards to assist us with our startup.

Banking
The NAB has come through with our credit card facility, it will still take a little time to set up but by the time we are online we should be set to go.

Website
We are still probably a couple of weeks from “Online”, but we are certainly working toward the end of the month……we will keep you posted.

Up coming
Next week we will put together a schedule of events to let you know how we are tracking and to give you the upcoming dates for training events.
We are conducting Team Leader Training for potential team Leaders in NZ on the 1st May. We will advise the venue in the next few days and we will be issuing the invitation to all NZ Consultants before the end of the week.
Samantha Farham will be in New Zealand for the sponsors meeting for Savour NZ this Thursday & Friday. We will let you know the latest news on this event next week
I will be in NZ on Monday and Tuesday next week for more meetings with Netball NZ to set up fundraiser dates. I will let you all know how we go!
Till next week………….Keep up the great recruiting work!

Rob