While Home Business New Zealand is the driving force behind, and a key stakeholder in The David Awards, the Awards themselves are a separate initiative, relevant to but not specific to home based businesses. Home Business New Zealand is well suited to initiating and managing The David Awards. Lauched in 2000, it publishes the popular, multi-award winning HomebizBuzz web site and has been active in supporting home and small businesses for nearly a decade. Its founder and Managing Director, Heather Douglas, was an inaugural winner of the Vero Excellence in Business Support Award (2005) for the individual who has contributed most to business support in New Zealand.  HomebizBuzz provides a wealth of information, support, resources and tools for businesses at the smaller end of the business scale, and has established an active, online, nation-wide community of home-based businesses (and those who have outgrown their home-based beginnings) which provide support, encouragement and inspiration to one another. Home Business New Zealand also provides those outside the home business arena with information, statistics, demographics and psychographics with regard to this increasingly significant but still under-recognised sector. Recently, it has teamed up with Nielsen Media Research to provide cost-effective, credible research to those wishing to better understand small, micro and home businesses.   The David Awards: an e-event In keeping with HomebizBuzz providing a virtual community for home and small business owners throughout New Zealand, The David Awards winners will be announced during a cutting-edge, technological first-of-its-kind-in-New Zealand virtual awards ceremony, comprising an online live broadcast (webcast) and a podcast of the event which will be available for on-demand viewing following the ceremony.  Sign up for the HomebizBuzz newsletters if you would like to be informed when and where this will be available, and of other developments as they happen. Contact us PO Box 32 610 Devonport Auckland New Zealand Email: info@thedavidawards.co.nz Phone (09) 445 2899 Fax (09) 4459679

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