Maggie Gray, one of the two co-founders of the Food Truck Collective, has always loved events. Maggie and her business partner Tim van der Werff set up the collective around six years ago. At the time she was operating her own smoothie truck, and having worked in events previously, could see the potential for getting people together over good, inexpensive food.
There's always something going on in the central city, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; Britomart keeps bustling long after dark and starts to stir well before dawn. There are waiters and bartenders taking care of customers until the wee hours; cleaners making things nice before thousands of workers stroll in; security guards saying hi and keeping people safe. Here, we talk to a few of the people from Britomart who are absolutely not living nine-to-five lives.
Dishes become iconic because they're so innovative they change the way we think about food, because they're so immaculately executed that they become best-in-class or because they're a popular fave that always hits the spot.
Everybody is asking questions about the future of the office and the future of work. Leadership coach Sandy Burgham says we need to look deeper for answers.
The global consulting firm's leader of People and Culture for Oceania says having leaders in the office is key to the rest of the team turning up.
Alma feeds the soul, and lifts the spirit with inspiration from Andalusia, wanderlust, and the bold simplicity of home.
Fresh Italian fare, vibrant Vietnamese, best-in-class coffee and delicious desserts – Britomart’s nine blocks are bursting with Auckland’s best food.
Playfully weaving together high fashion and street style, luxury and ease, Karen Walker has cultivated an effortless ‘high-casual’ aesthetic.
Britomart is home to the flagship stores of New Zealand’s best fashion designers, along with a bunch of boutiques showcasing the world’s best brands.
At Allbirds, Hana Kajimura is charged with making the complexities of climate change easily understandable to customers. She spoke to Melinda Williams as part of our Seven Plans for a Better Planet interview series to talk about how her firm is making sustainability part of its DNA.
Britomart is run according to the NZ Green Building Council's Green Star Performance Tool, and we're developing an emissions reduction plan with Toitū Envirocare. We're also looking to create more conversations about sustainability: our Seven Plans for a Better Planet interview series is part of that.
Westpac New Zealand’s headquarters opens onto Takutai Square, the vibrant public space at the heart of Britomart.
Diverse, dynamic and deeply committed to sustainability, Britomart is an innovative, modern neighbourhood in which to do business.
David Hall is a senior lecturer at AUT with deep interests in climate change policy and sustainable finance. Among many other things, he has a doctorate from the University of Oxford and is also one of the designers of Trees That Count planting initiative – so he’s got a good sense of the difference planting trees can make in addressing the challenges of climate change.
Britomart’s regular interview series features one-on-one conversations with guests with great ideas about how to make Auckland an even better place.
