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Wine & Dine event

wineNZ — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:38:59 +0000

29th April 2009, Southern Cross in Heemstede will host a New Zealand vs Australia wine and food pairing event! Read more: www.fortyfourdegrees.nl

INTRODUCTORY PACK

foodNZ — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:45:21 +0000

For 2008 we have lowered our minimum order from 12 to 6 bottles, so it is now easier for you to trail our great products. 6 different varieties can be ordered in any price bracket. Simply visit SHOP via www.44degrees.nl to place your order.

Vernieuwde formules Living Nature dagcrèmes

beautyNZ — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:42:08 +0000

De formules van de Living Nature dagcrèmes zijn vernieuwd. De zonnefilter is uit de dagcrèmes gehaald en in een apart product genaamd “Daily Defence” verkrijgbaar.

Voor de nieuwe formules is een aangename, nieuwe geur ontwikkeld.

Om de nieuwe formule uit te proberen kunt u een tester aanvragen op www.livingnature.nl onder het kopje contactformulier. Vergeet niet te vermelden wat de conditie van uw huid is.

Living Nature make-up nu verkrijgbaar in Nederland

beautyNZ — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:40:25 +0000

De cosmetica lijn van Living Nature is uitgebreid met een complete make-up lijn.

Deze make-up lijn is vanaf nu ook verkrijgbaar op de Nederlandse markt.

Bezoek voor een compleet overzicht van de producten de webwinkel op www.livingnature.nl.

Onder de categorie make-up staan alle nieuwe producten gerangschikt.

Macpac expeditions

outdoorNZ — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:02:00 +0000

Ice&Ocean Greenland 07
In August 2007 New Zealand’s Adventure Philosophy team of Graham Charles and
Marcus Waters set out on a 1300km sea and sled adventure across the world’s largest icecap. The expedition will leave Tasiilaq (Ammassalik) on Greenland’s
east coast and climb 2000m up glaciated terrain to the icecap. Utilizing
kites, when the wind allows, and pulling sleds, they will head northwest
across the freezing, magical world of Greenland’s icecap. Once at the coast
their expedition will become one-of-a-kind, by adding 600km of sea kayaking
(traditional Inuit mode of transport), travelling through the frigid ocean and
dangerous moving pack ice south along the coast to the capital city of Nuuk.

About the Team
Adventure Philosophy aims to ‘Inspire others in all walks of life to seek
their own adventures, pursue their dreams, be creative, and value the world
around them.’ Through personal adventure and inspirational role modeling they
aim to promote their values of respect and care for the environment. The team
are renowned adventurers with many outstanding accomplishments together and as
individuals. In 2005 Waters, Charles and fellow Adventure Philosophy team
member Mark Jones, completed the world’s first sea-kayak circumnavigation of
South Georgia Island. Other accomplishments include an unsupported Antarctic
traverse and world-first sea kayak/mountaineering expedition through the
Darwin Cordillera - one of the wildest places on the planet.

Graham Charles is one of NZ’s most versatile and well known outdoor
professionals. He is an accomplished outdoor photographer and the author of
NZ’s “bible” of whitewater destinations. Marcus is a skilled and qualified
outdoorsman. Growing up at New Zealand’s Outward Bound School, he later taught outdoor skills with Graham and Mark at The Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre. He has climbed and kayaked all over the world and recently completed the first traverse of the Antarctic Peninsula by sea kayak. Mark Jones has spent his life adventuring and working with people in the outdoors, notably at Tihoi Adventure School, The Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre and most recently lecturing at Auckland’s University of Technology.

Founder not sheepish about success

outdoorNZ — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:59:17 +0000

If sheep are our national joke then young entrepreneur Jeremy Moon is having
the last laugh. Moon is behind Icebreaker - the Queenstown clothing brand
that’s made wool cool, again. Icebreaker is sold in more than 1,000 stores in
17 countries and Moon has been invited to speak next month at the prestigious
Harvard Business School. Entrepreneurial management students will analyse
Icebreaker’s business model - the first time a New Zealand company has been
used by the school as a case study. America’s top outdoor retailers recently
travelled to Queenstown to visit the Icebreaker “factory” - the ruggedly
beautiful high country where merino sheep thrive. And retailers like Jay
Michael Brown from Colorado want a bigger slice of the action. “We get calls
from Hollywood now because we have one of the best selections of Icebreaker in
the US,” says Brown. The Icebreaker recipe for success combines kiwi
innovation and stylish modern design mixed with marketing genius. Moon says
most wool is ideal for carpets but not against the skin. But he says the the
mighty merino’s super-fine fibre is perfect. Icebreaker took the wool and
spun, knitted and weaved it into one of NZ’s great business success stories of
the past decade. The company has just had its10th birthday, employs people all
over the world and is a far cry from the one-man business Jeremy Moon started
in 1995. “This year we will have more than half a million customers globally,”
Moon told Sunday. The story of Icebreaker really began when Moon was
24-years-old. Fresh out of university and armed with a marketing degree,
merino farmer Brian Brackenridge showed him his underpants (long johns). “I
didn’t quite know what to expect. But when you touch them, they’re wool but
they feel so beautifully soft, like silk, and you can throw them in the
washing machine. Suddenly here was a new idea. Everything in the outdoor
market was made of plastic. So I thought if we could crack this, we’re onto
something big,” says Moon. Moon mortgaged his house, bought half of
Brackenridge’s company and set off with a battered old suitcase to peddle his
wares. New Zealand adventurer the late Sir Peter Blake took a pair of
Icebreaker underpants on the ultimate road test - the sea - wearing the same
pair of long johns for 43 days and 43 nights in the Jules Verne Challenge. “It
was incredibly generous of him because here I was someone with no credibility
in the outdoors business…a product that was untested, and here Peter came
out and said he didn’t take it off for 43 days and it was the best thing he’s
ever worn, so without that critical ingredient it would have been almost
impossible.” Moon soon learned that pure NZ merino wasn’t enough and he needed
quality control. So he took another punt and signed farmers to contracts to
grow merino fibre just for Icebreaker. They would be paid an agreed price for
an agreed quality. “It’s a bit like wine, but because it’s from Bordeaux it
doesn’t mean it’s great. You can have Chateaux Petrus at $1500 a bottle and
also you can have chateau rot-gut and get change from $3.50.” The first
contract for just 700 kilograms was for four bales of wool delivered on the
back of a ute in 1997. Icebreaker now controls more than a quarter of NZ’s
fine merino clip. “We’ve just signed contracts for 2006-2008…about two and a
half thousand tonnes roughly of pure merino, so that is quite a big chunk of
the clip, worth about $30 million. It’s the largest merino contract in the
world and for many it has economically rescued the high country. Nokomai
Station has more merino than any other station in New Zealand. Covering about
38,000 hectares - an area twice the size of Auckland city - it produces about
20 tonnes of pure merino fibre every year. Rob and Linda Butson, the owners of
Mount Nicholas Station on the shores of Lake Wakatipu, were among the first
suppliers of merino fibre to Icebreaker. “He [Moon] looked a bit dreamy with
his battered old suitcase, had a bit of a talk to him and he was pretty hooked
on this merino fibre, and when we got home from the conference I said forget
about him, he’s not much use to us - looks like a dreamer to me,” says Rob.
But Rob now says Moon has been their saviour. “If you took contracts out of
the system, it’s probably as bad as it’s ever been. I think in real terms,
merino wool is as low as it’s ever been,” says Rob. Icebreaker has a huge
focus on marketing and had the brand before the product. When Moon heard about
Shrek - the daggy old merino wandering about in the bush who became world
famous - he seized on the opportunity. After footage of the recently shorn
Shrek wearing an Icebreaker jumper went global the website went ballistic and
icebreaker.com got a million hits the next day. “We started getting emails
from front pages in Switzerland and the US and all through Europe,” says Moon.
He says they have turned down some pretty big chains in the US “not because we
don’t want to do business with them, but because we want to do it when the time is right and when the strategy has been built.” He believes it is a mistake to try to scale a brand too quickly and either not be ready for it and
disappoint people, or burn the people who are the core partners. Icebreaker
doesn’t want to be a fashion flash-in-the-pan, it is a company with a 100 year
vision which should far outlive the natural life of its youthful founder.

Founder not sheepish about success

outdoorNZ — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:55:00 +0000

Icebreaker is about icebreaking

outdoorNZ — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:55:47 +0000

It’s about our relationship to nature, and to each other. And it’s about new
ideas and doing things differently; being an authentic natural choice in an
age of synthetics, and seeing how far we can develop this simple idea. We
think it’s a 100 year idea, and we’re just learning to walk. Ach year we
procure the best merino wool in the world, directly from the best growers in
the world, up high in the very pure Southern Alps of New Zealand. If the fibre
didn’t work, the animals would die every time it snowed. But it does, and they
don’t. From there our hand-picked pure merino goes in search of the best
technology, ethical manufacturing, and environmentally sound practices before
it completes its transformation into an Icebreaker garment. And then, maybe
you saw it and discovered it for yourself. Will you do something extraordinary
in yours? We believe in dreams, and in the human spirit. Put together, it all
makes common sense; a natural high-performance clothing system and a fresh set
of ideas based on respect for nature, ethics, and sustainability. We have
built a platform to prove that nature is cool, and not everything has to be
made of plastic. Yes, it is possible to build a company that doesn’t deliver
at the expense of our environment. We have, and you are a part of it.

Jeremy Moon, Founder and CEO

http://www.tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/620250 and ckick on video related
icebreaker for “These sheep are no joke (12:38)”

De Nieuw Zeelandse Keuken

foodNZ — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:26:28 +0000

De Nieuw Zeelandse keuken gaat over rauwe producten. Gestoomde, gegrilde ingrediënten. Stir fried of slow cooked of door de nieuwste kooktechnieken gekoesterd.
Pure, verrassende, vernieuwende en spannende combinaties……….
Allemaal gebaseerd op een gevarieerd aanbod dat je het water in de mond doet lopen.

Groente zoals zoete aardappel, yam, kleine aardappels, rood en geel, sla en kruiden, kiemen, artichok, truffels, olijven, asperges, avocado, NZ spinazie, wortels, mais, pompoen, peper en paprika, horopito, kawakawa, kelp, punga, bietjes, boerenkool, noten, enz.

Vers Fruit zoals kiwi, wilde vijg, fijoa, tamarillo, appel, peer, druiven, meloen, blauwe bes, veenbes, physalis

Vlees: rund, wild varken, possum, hert, fazant, gans, eend, muttonbird, lam.

Vis: zout en zoet water kreeftjes, paling, mosselen, pipis, cockels, whitebait, makreel, kahawai, pilchard, creamfish, rode kabeljauw, tonijn, zalm, tarakihi, hoki, lemonfish, tong, hapuku, kingfish, oester, kina(zee ei), paua, (abolone)

2007 CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE

wineNZ — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:37:06 +0000

Niet lang meer voordat de kerst weer voor de deur staat! Wij bieden een groot assortiment van producten en/of pakketen aangepast aan al jouw wensen. Je hebt keuze uit een box of pakket van 1 tot 3 flessen. Onze prijs varieert van een simpel lekkere wijn tot de meest elegantste optie.

Voor meer informatie: www.44degrees.nl, en bekijk onze FORTYFOUR DEGREES 2007 Christmas Catalogue