SAMOA: Growing the business with dough Nearly 30 years ago Tapusoa Malulaufai I’aulualo, along with his wife Vaotoga Lauaki I’aulualo, started a humble shop selling groceries […]

SOLOMON ISLANDS: Fresh ideas from Solfresh Products Solfresh Products is one of only a few registered commercial agri-businesses operating in the Solomons, specialising in farming layer […]

TONGA: Floating ideas become floating reality in Vava’u Joe Caesar and business partner Alan Morey have spent over 10 years slowly growing a boat storage and […]

NIUE: Wahoo Fishing Charters off to a flying (fish) start What a silly question. Do you catch different fish at night? Clifford Marsh, owner of Niue […]

RAROTONGA: A new tourist attraction – Vanilla!  In 2017 Lafala Turepu set up her vanilla plantation, in Matavera, Rarotonga. It takes about two years for vanilla […]

COOK ISLANDS: Digging deep to grow and thrive Teava Jnr Iro, Maria Maoate and family are the dream team behind AVA Excavations Ltd in the Cook […]

VANUATU: Vanua Soap – small business that just keeps bubbling along! Vanua Soap is a little soap business in Luganville, Santo. We interviewed entrepreneur Joelle Kamata, […]

Happy International Women’s Day 2024 from the BLP Network March 8 marks International Women’s Day 2024. This year, the theme is “Inspire Inclusion”, aspiring to create […]

KIRIBATI: 7s Ruby’s Accounting Firm – a family practice Etita Ruby laughs as she describes how her seven children named the firm. No prizes for guessing […]

VANUATU: Xero in Vanuatu – Understanding migration In our previous article on the benefits of Xero for small and medium-sized businesses in Fiji, we talked about […]