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5 good reasons to "Buy New Zealand Made"


Buy New Zealand Made and you will:
  1. Keep your money circulating here and not disappearing overseas. One way to reduce rising national debt from trade deficits is to buy local.
  2. Support local communities. When businesses do well it benefits the whole local community.
  3. Keep our country unique. Our one-of-a-kind businesses are important in making New Zealand distinctive. This has the added benefit of helping our tourism businesses too.
  4. Reduce environmental impact. Our environmental standards for businesses, products and services are often better than those overseas. Also freighting goods from longer distances increases their carbon footprint.
  5. Help create more jobs.

Posted by Michael Lockhart on 30th October, 2009 | Comments | Trackbacks
Tags: Business Sustainability

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