Ms Kaz Staples, of Auckland, MNZM for services to the food industry
Kaz Staples is founder, owner and managing director of pure delish, a producer of cereals, cakes and natural snack foods. She founded the company in 1997 as a one-woman enterprise to sell festive cakes at markets and through friends and family. Today, pure delish products are sold in hundreds of supermarkets in New Zealand and exported to Australia, Singapore, China, Thailand, and Tahiti. Ms Staples has been committed to the development of her staff, with an in-house incubator for upskilling her employees in their health, wellbeing, personal fitness, motivation and career. She continues to offer her 30 staff a healthy cooked lunch on site.