What could possibly lure someone away from a lucrative, prestigious, globe-trotting career in management consulting? Disillusioned by the prospect of spending years continuing to chase the bottom line, Kate Bezar decided to feed the starved creative side of her brain instead. Putting values before profit, she set out to create something that resonated with ordinary people. Dumbo feather, pass it on, is unique in the publishing world; the half-magazine, half-book features the stories of five unique individuals in their own words. Her story is proof that if you follow your gut, the money will follow.

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As an interview, it was a disaster. I spent seven hours with Bob Jones, during which time he ordered six bottles of wine and didn’t answer one of my questions.

I can’t say I wasn’t warned. Just before our lunch-time interview, he told radio presenter Mike Yardley that he was personally responsible for a recent increase in red wine consumption.

I walked away from an afternoon with Bob Jones with my head spinning, and not just from the wine. I couldn’t tell you when he got his OBE or how he got started in property investment, but I heard stories about him punching out the Czechoslovakian president and making a fortune by sending everyone in England a bill for 12 pounds. He spun yarns about discussing Rastafarianism with Lennox Lewis’s mother and meeting Haile Silassie - twice. 

Woman Today
By Kris Herbert

It’s hard to imagine New Zealand fashion without iconic Dunedin label, Nom*D, yet when Margarita (Margi) Robertson and her husband Chris started the company 1986, the words “New Zealand” and “fashion” were scarcely uttered in the same sentence.

Woman Today, September-October 2002

Trelise Cooper doesn’t apologise for doing business like a woman. In fact, her unorthodox ways and highly personal feminine values may go a long way towards explaining her success. The 44-year-old fashion designer, wife and mother steers one of New Zealand’s biggest fashion success stories.