SERVICES OVERVIEW
Poutama seeks to facilitate economic growth for Māori and to create an environment in which Māori entrepreneurs and businesses can flourish. As a result Poutama provides a wide range of services including:
Service Delivery
Poutama has skilled professional business advisers who deliver advice and information on business development opportunities. The Poutama whanau have personal experience of operating businesses and clients will be talking to people who have faced similar issues.
Based in the King Country, Rotorua, Manawatu and Wellington, our Business Advisers are highly mobile and travel widely and regularly throughout the whole of Aotearoa - New Zealand. They can arrange a visit to assess a client's needs kanohi-ki-te-kanohi or face to face, wherever the business is based.
By working closely and directly with clients our business advisers ensure that Poutama is a hands-on, personal organisation that endeavours to tailor its services to match a client's unique business requirements.
Contact us freephone 0800 476 882 to speak to your nearest Poutama business adviser.
By 2020 Poutama will have supported (Pou) 10000 Maori businesses (Tama) to be thriving participants in the New Zealand & Global economies
Core purpose of why
Poutama exists
‘To support Maori to Succeed in Business’
Poutama will enhance sustainable economic development by supporting growth opportunities and accelerating Maori business innovation and entrepreneurship
Passion for Maori economic self-determination
Highly motivated
Lean & flexible
Continuous learning & improvement
Mobility & Technology
Globally astute
Leveraging & brokering networks & opportunities