London: New Zealand technology in the UK is becoming a big deal with new figures showing small businesses are turning to Kiwi Information Technology expertise like never before. It’s now worth more than $60 million.
It’s not easy to find a good coffee in the UK, but a Kiwi company, Volcano Coffee Works, is trying to change that – roasting its own beans and selling them online to restaurants, cafes and coffee lovers in London.
When it’s comes to IT for things like paying staff and the company website, Volcano is turning to another Kiwi firm, web design company Rocketspark, for help.
Volcano general manager Onny Loisel says they use Rocketspark’s web IT, “to update products, to change content, to do something simple like a blog post that you want to add a picture to.”
Rocketspark started up in the UK two years ago and is growing fast. “We’re expanding very rapidly and probably in the last six months we’re really seen it accelerate,” says Grant Johnson, Rocketspark director.
Exporting Kiwi technology has gone up 14 per cent and in the UK alone is worth more than $60 million. So why are Kiwis good at IT?
“I think it’s a mixture of our DNA, our number eight wire mentality,” says Daniel Taylor, New Zealand Trade Commissioner in London.
