Māori and Pasifika-owned Supplier Businesses
How our service helps you
Manaaki
Gain access to exclusive and specialist resources and workshops what will help you develop your skills and knowledge in a wide range of issues that affect your ability to gain and grow business opportunities with buyers.
Customers
Find out more about Amotai Buyers through our online directory. Build relationships with Buyer Members by attending exclusive Amotai events. Understand their procurement processes and pre-qualification requirements to enable you to tender for work with them.
Whanaungatanga
Become a part of the Amotai whānau and meet hundreds of other like-minded Māori and Pasifika-owned businesses. Look to joint venture with, and buy from, each other, creating new opportunities and keeping more resources circulating in Māori and Pasifika economies.
How do we define a Māori and/or Pasifika business?
Amotai verifies that supplier members meet the below criteria.
Māori or/and Pasifika-owned business are defined as enterprises where:
* Partnerships: at least 50% of each class of partnership interest is owned by Māori and/or Pasifika person(s) and such ownership must be reflected in the partnership agreement; or
* Corporations/companies: Māori and/or Pasifika person(s) own at least 50% of each class of ordinary voting shares issued and at least 50% of each class of all other shares issued; or
* Trusts: at least 50% of owner(s) of securities or assets held in trust are Māori and/or Pasifika person(s); or
* Sole proprietorship/trader: 100% ownership by a Māori and/or Pasifika person.
Māori are defined as people with Māori whakapapa (verifiable genealogical lineage).
As defined by Statistics New Zealand, Pacific peoples are people who whakapapa to, and identify as, descendants of the indigenous Pacific ethnic groups of Samoa, Cook Islands, Tonga, Niue, Fiji, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and the small island states of Micronesia.
Statistics New Zealand recognises people with Indigenous Fijian ancestry as being Pacific peoples, however this does not include people of Indo-Fijian descent.
Amotai also recognises people who whakapapa to Hawai’i and Tahiti as Pacific peoples.
Who can join?
Businesses
Relevant enterprises can include sole traders, partnerships, incorporated companies, limited liability companies, social enterprises and franchises. They must meet ownership criteria in order to join.
Iwi
Iwi, hapū and marae who sell products, services or works can join.
Not-for-profit
Relevant enterprises can include trusts, incorporated societies, cooperatives, not-for-profits, social enterprises, and community-led enterprises. They must meet the ownership criteria in order to join.
