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Business - Pride and Prosperity

Businesses that believe in the growth and prosperity of the region join with Southland Spirit of a Nation to provide funds and support for the promotion of Southland. These businesses identify with the Southland values of community spirit, hard work, teamwork, innovation and reliability. They support the region they are proud to call home.

 

In return there are many benefits for a local business from association with the regional brand:

  • To support and be associated with Southland Spirit of a Nation activities
  • Express pride in Southland through the business
  • Engender pride and community values in workplace
  • Build customer loyalty by positioning the company as local, proud of Southland, connected and contributing to the community and being seen to contribute
  • Sponsor functions discussing current local economy, pending investment and market trends 
  • Networking opportunities with fellow sponsors
  • Positive PR for individual companies

 
 In the Words of the Spirit Sponsors Minimize
Nick Hamlin, Arrow International
Nick Hamlin, Arrow International
“Southland Spirit of a Nation allows us to grow our company profile in the region. Despite being a national company, our offices are locally based, locally staffed and are part of the community doing community projects. Spirit is a great way of encapsulating and promoting this while giving back to the region we all call home.”
Keith Mason, Fonterra Edendale.
Keith Mason, Fonterra Edendale.
“One of the responsibilities we have being a global manufacturer is creating a sustainable business that benefits both future generations of Southlanders and our Shareholders. The Spirit brand allows us to support the development of future leaders through the work Gerry does with local schools as well as create a strong link into our community with the alignment of our organisation values with the character of our region; teamwork, honesty, volunteerism, heritage & community spirit.”
Robert Michelle, Fulton Hogan Southland
Robert Michelle, Fulton Hogan Southland
“We use the networking opportunities of Southland Spirit of a Nation to build and establish client relationships with businesses of a like mind and attitude. Also Gerry Forde helped our profile with a media story that had amazing reach and benefit to our standing in the community.”
Andrew Roe, Vet South Ltd
Andrew Roe, Vet South Ltd
“As well as using the Spirit of a Nation brand to re-enforce the fact that our business is strongly community focused we believe that there is an intangible benefit in being linked to positive, successful concepts. Why not try to piggyback on the all that’s great about the best province in NZ?”
Mike Wood, Computer Supplyline
Mike Wood, Computer Supplyline
“I love the fact that people can see that I am local. I support local business and hope local business would support me.”
  
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