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Case study · Cook Islands
COOK ISLANDS: Tavake - Aitutaki’s future community hub
A Tavake is a bird, a white tern with a long red tail, once highly prized for decorating traditional Cook Island costumes. The Cook Islands are one of the only places in the world where you will find this beautiful bird. Recalling happy weekends with his childhood family spent on Cook Island atolls surrounded by…
10 February 2025
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Case study · Papua New Guinea
PNG: SNS Tech leading the way in PNG tech support and advice
Samson Korawali of SNS Tech is more than something of a tech expert. With over 18 years of industry experience working across hundreds of technology projects both in PNG and internationally, Samson is well placed to provide professional IT advice through Business Link Pacific to SME businesses in PNG and across the 12 Pacific countries…
7 February 2025
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Case study · Vanuatu
VANUATU: Weaving a growing business
Tousong Kalsong has been selling locally made handicrafts in Vanuatu for nine years now, but Aelan Creations only really got underway when a local resort – Eratap Beach Resort – started offering weekly village tours to guests. This opened the tourist market to Tousong and her fledgling business based in Eratap, just five minutes from…
5 February 2025
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Case study · Cook Islands
COOK ISLANDS: Building resilient business in the Cook Islands, one SME at a time
As an accountant and Business Link Pacific business service provider Iokopeta Williams is known to many small business owners in the Cook Islands. With her background in offshore businesses and the tourism sector, ‘Yogi’ (as she prefers to be known) is perfectly placed to advise on what SMEs need to do to improve their access…
3 February 2025
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Case study · Tonga
TONGA: A picture tells a thousand words - the story of Tini Media
Tini Media provides any manner of photography services to local clients in Tonga but also international clients who seek Tini’s videography and documentary services. Anaseini and Robati Iotebatu discovered their love of all things photographic when Ropati did a course in photography at university.
30 January 2025
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Case study · Fiji
‘Elite’ success with quality, local, subsidised advice
With years of experience and a wealth of knowledge in the spare parts field, in 2020 Jitendra Kumar established Elite Motor Link, a motor vehicle spare parts business in Labasa Town. The convenient location ensuring accessibility for customers seeking reliable automotive solutions.
23 January 2025
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Case study · Papua New Guinea
PNG: It takes a network, to build a business!
We have all heard the saying ‘it takes a village’ to raise a child; in business, it takes a network.
21 January 2025
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Case study · Cook Islands
COOK ISLANDS: Printing plus, plus, plus
Located in the bustling heart of Avarua, Cook Islands Printing Services (CIPS) is a stalwart of the business community. In operation now for over two decades, General Manager Abes Tuumaga states, “The business undertakes any and all printing, design and managed print services; no matter how big or small the job, the team at CIPS…
16 January 2025
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Case study · Samoa
SAMOA: I’aulualo Minimart & Marnitta's Bakery
Nearly 30 years ago Tapusoa Malulaufai I’aulualo, along with his wife Vaotoga Lauaki I’aulualo, started a humble shop selling groceries to passing customers through a street-facing window in their home. That shop is unrecognisable now as it has been converted to a walk-in minimart or supermarket in front and a rapidly expanding bakery at the…
16 December 2024
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Case study · Cook Islands
COOK ISLANDS: The Good Way Farm
COOK ISLANDS: Eat your greens - the Good Way to feed the community
6 December 2024
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Case study · Solomon Islands
SOLOMON ISLANDS: The Ginger Beach Retreat. Paradise just got better!
Like many small business owners supported by Business Link Pacific, Danielle Garo had never received financial assistance or advisory services before. BLP supported her business, Ginger Beach Retreat, with both a business grant and subsidised advice.
26 November 2024
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Case study · Samoa
SAMOA: C-Bloom Café – one cappuccino please!
Faith Purvis makes a great coffee out of her new machine, with her new coffee cannisters and her supply of fresh delicious coffee. Just ask her regulars! C-Bloom Café is perfectly situated to serve bank staff and customers and visitors to the township of Salelologa, Savai’i. “The C is for Coffee, and Bloom because it…
23 August 2024