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Interview: Geoff Cundle, Steamships

5 Feb 2013 by
One of PNG’s largest and most diversified companies has a new Managing Director. We caught up with Steamships’ Geoff Cundle (pictured below) a few weeks into his new job. Business Advantage PNG (BAPNG): This isn’t your first time working in PNG …? Geoff Cundle (GC): I was here about 20 years ago, again with Steamships, […]
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‘Made in PNG 2012’ out now

24 Oct 2012 by Leave a Comment
Magazine showcases Papua New Guinea’s produce and producers The second edition of Made in PNG, the magazine that focuses on Papua New Guinea’s non-mineral produce has just been released. Published by Business Advantage International in partnership with the Manufacturers Council of PNG, the magazine covers not only manufacturing but also agribusiness, fisheries and forestry. Its content […]
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Twenty-five years of Nestlé in PNG

1 Sep 2012 by
2012 marks 25 years of successful manufacturing in Papua New Guinea for global food giant, Nestlé. Nestlé is one of the world’s leading food and nutrition companies, employing more than 330,000 people worldwide and with more than 460 factories across 83 countries. From its humble beginnings in PNG in the late 1970s, Nestlé operations have […]
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Lae: Papua New Guinea’s manufacturing hub

1 Sep 2012 by Leave a Comment
PNG’s second-largest city is the focal point for the nation’s downstream processing industries. Although it plays second fiddle to the national capital Port Moresby, Lae in Morobe Province is PNG’s industrial capital and boasts considerable activity in manufacturing, trading, agribusiness and, more recently, fisheries. Lae: the facts Despite being the second city in a country […]
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Profile: Niu Homes, new approach

1 Sep 2012 by 76 Comments
Niu Homes has a 30-year history of providing buildings for Papua New Guinea’s residential and industrial sectors, from 24-room complexes for mining camps to family homes. A division of PNG Forest Products, Niu Homes makes buildings which use renewable plantation pine and are entirely designed and made in Papua New Guinea. Its services extend from […]
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Profile: Cloudy Bay Sustainable Forestry

1 Sep 2012 by Leave a Comment
The Cloudy Bay Sustainable Forestry Company operates to a simple formula: ‘high quality at a fair price.’ Cloudy Bay Sustainable Forestry Company places high value on sustainability. It received a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Controlled Wood and Chain of Custody accreditation in 2011. Since 2006, it has been developing a Forest Management Area in the […]
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K K Kingston: 40 years old and growing fast

1 Sep 2012 by
K K Kingston, one of Papua New Guinea’s largest manufacturers, turns 40 in 2012. Paying a visit to its HQ in Lae, Robert Hamilton-Jones found the company evolving at a furious pace. ‘We’re bursting at the seams,’ declares K K Kingston’s General Manager Michael Kingston. We are sitting in the boardroom of the company’s head […]
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