Presentation by TCI

1. 2000
2001

2. 2002
2003

3. 2004
2005

4. 2006
2007

5. 2008
2009

6. 2010

7. 2011 Auckland New Zealand
Welcome

8. Auckland
New Zealand’s commercial hub & largest city

9. New Zealand – Home of major events
Source:NZ Herald

10. New Zealand – Home of major events

11. New Zealand – the new world hub

12. PAGE 1216 October 2010
Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland:
• 35% of New Zealand’s GDP ($48bn)
• 4th best city to live in the world (Mercer's Quality of Life)
• 6th most ethnically diverse city in the world
New Zealand:
• 2nd for overall Ease of Doing Business
• 1st for Protecting Investors by the World Bank
• 2nd on 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
Free trade agreements with many countries
1st country to sign with China;
Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Thailand, Viet Nam,
Brunei, Singapore, Phillipines

13. New Zealand Statistics
Economic indicator Total Year end
New Zealand population 4,367,700 Jun 10
Nominal GDP (NZ$ billion) 186.1 Mar 10
Nominal GDP growth 3.5% Mar 10
Nominal GDP per capita (NZ$) 43,031 Mar 10
Real GDP (NZ$ billion) 133.1 Mar 10
Real GDP growth -0.7% Mar 10
Real GDP per capita growth -2.6% Mar 10
CPI inflation 1.8% Jun 10
Unemployment rate 6.8% Jun 10
Total exports (NZ$ billion) 40,655 Jun 10
Total imports (NZ$ billion) 40,016 Jun 10

14. Interesting Facts about New Zealand
• First western democracy to give women the vote 1893
• Nobel Prize Winner, Ernest Rutherford is known as the
father of nuclear physics for ‘splitting’ the atom 1919
• Sir Edmund Hillary - first person to climb Mt Everest 1953
• Invented bungee jumping, electric fences, refrigerated
shipping, first powered flying machine , the Hamilton Jet,
tranquilliser gun, disposable syringe , JetPak,
•NZ has won more Olympic gold medals, per capita, than
any other country
•A kiwi is not a fruit – it is New Zealand’s native flightless
bird and a slang term for a New Zealander. Kiwis call the
fruit “kiwifruit”

16. Cluster Tours – Marine
•Auckland accounts for 58% of sector activity in New Zealand
• Auckland’s Westhaven Marina – largest in the Southern Hemisphere
•Exports are expected to triple over next 15 years
•New Zealand is a leading builder of superyachts
•New Zealand builds more boats per capita than any other country

18. Cluster Tours – Food and Beverage
• 90,000 enterprises employ 400,000 people
• F&B account for 52% of total NZ exports
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• 7.4 percent of Auckland’s GDP and 20 percent of
national food and beverage sector GDP
• NZ Food Innovation Centre due to open June
2011 – a highly innovative product
commercialisation facility for Auckland businesses
• Home of Fonterra, the world's leading exporter of
dairy products and responsible for more than a
third of international dairy trade.

20. Cluster Tours – Bioeconomy
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• 42% core bioscience companies (Auckland)
• 3,000 people employed in sector (Auckland)
• World class facilities -Liggins Institute & University of
Auckland & many more
• Expertise in human health, medtech, cleantech,
functional foods & agbio
• Medtech growing fast: 16% per year, exports $510m

22. Cluster Tours – Agritech
LACTANZ, Western Australia - $30m JV between
Spencer Trust, and WMI, PKW & Mawhera Inc
• Agritech is a $3 billion industry, Export sales in excess of $700 million
• NZ one of the top 5 dairy exporters in the world which supply around 90
percent of dairy products traded on the international market
• Pastoral farming - 13.5m hectares - more than 80 percent of occupied land
area and nearly half of the total land area
• Global partnerships and IP servicing models

23. Programme Themes
1. Global interaction: The role of small open economies in
leveraging economic relationships with major trading partners
2. Urban competitiveness: creativity and innovative drivers of
urban competitiveness
3. Next Generation: Innovation Systems and Sustainable Business
Models
4. Growing the eco-system : Internationalisation of Small Firms

24. Conference Venue
SKYCITY Convention
Centre
Located in the heart of New Zealand's
premier entertainment destination with a
multitude of 18 restaurants and bars, casino,
Australasia’s tallest building, the Sky Tower,
theatre, SKYCITY Hotel and SKYCITY Grand
Hotel.

25. Welcome
You’re invited to Auckland.
tci2011.org
Pre-register by 20 December to be in draw to win
an Auckland prize pack