Guide to success overseas

By SELWYN PARKER

Want to expand the company? Victoria University's business school has spent two years learning how little New Zealand acorns grow into international oaks.

It has studied Tait Electronics, Formway Furniture, Gallagher Group and other home-grown successes and concluded: "They are not small-scale copies of overseas success formulas."

Instead, they had found their own way to turn unique New Zealand-born capabilities into global competitive advantage.

And you can find out how they have done it - and why less successful businesses have not - at a presentation of the Turnaround Management Association in Wellington on May 22.

The guest speaker is the study's project leader, Colin Campbell-Hunt, reader in strategic management at Victoria University. For details, phone (04) 494 6403.

* Contributing writer Selwyn Parker is available at wordz@xtra.co.nz