''They would produce a food from somewhere around the world and sit outside the shops down the Main Street... and then that organisation could benefit from that.''
The group had evolved from Shop Te Puke over the last four months, Mr Gunn said and ''it's morphed into something quite a bit bigger''.
''Shop Te Puke was very much a Main Street thing and suddenly we had other people interested so we looked at widening it to create events.''
The group had secured funding from the Western Bay District Council, hired a marketing manager and released new branding under EPIC Te Puke.
''EPIC can stand for anything because we can play on the letters like E for entertain or P for perform. We are coming up with some neat ideas and hope to do four events a year, which is exciting.''
Te Puke Economic Development Group managing director Mark Boyle said it was supportive of the group and it would work alongside them.
''They will be of considerable value to Te Puke and the fact they are doing a multi culture food festival is a winner. And securing Karena and Kasey is a real stellar move as they are on the global stage now.''