our mission
'To provide high-quality business development and government relations services to enable New Zealand businesses to succeed in Latin America'
company profile
Manning Group Limited is a diversified New Zealand company with over 30 years of in-depth market development & management experience in a wide variety of business sectors throughout Latin America including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Mexico & Uruguay.
Manning Group has the skill-sets, in-market experience and strong professional and political networks needed to ensure successful outcomes for our clients.
Manning Group successfully helps New Zealand exporters of goods and services grow their businesses with assistance in planning and implementing trade and foreign investment strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean by acting on international opportunities on our clients' behalf while limiting their risks with our expertise and local knowledge. We provide clients with the on-the-ground expertise necessary to conduct business in the region and by facilitating access to an experienced network of consultants and professional service providers and tailor market research and business plans to enable our clients to enter markets with realistic expectations. Manning Group publishes the 'Transpacific Business Digest' a complimentary fortnightly E-bulletin which aggregates market reports, video, economic analysis and business news from throughout Latin America with a view to facilitating the deepening trade in goods and services between New Zealand and the region. |
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Auckland - Bogota - Buenos Aires - Lima - Montevideo - Mexico City - Santiago - Sao Paulo - Wellington
MANNING GROUP executive
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Manning Group Governing Director, Thomas Stewart Manning is a passionate advocate for the growing potential for New Zealand exporters and service providers in Latin America. Thomas' strong project management and leadership skills and excellent working relationships with professional and government establishments in New Zealand and throughout Latin America ensure Manning Group's clients achieve their desired outcomes. Thomas has worked to build closer ties with Latin America as a member and long-standing director of the Latin America New Zealand Business Council (Executive Director 2011 - 2013 & Vice President 2010 - 2013) and as a member of NZ Trade Missions to Mexico with Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand & Foreign Minister The Rt. Hon. Sir Don McKinnon ONZ GCVO and Argentina with NZ Trade Minister Hon. Philip Burdon. |
With more than 30 years successful business experience in the Latin American region Thomas is a highly-respected columnist and commentator who writes in a wide variety of magazines and newspapers on New Zealand - Latin American trade, politics and cultural phenomena (print media archive).
Thomas founded and edits the 'Transpacific Business Digest, a free fortnightly E-Bulletin of Latin American business news, market reports and video which covers the mainstream media gap in business reporting in both Latin America and New Zealand.
Thomas founded and edits the 'Transpacific Business Digest, a free fortnightly E-Bulletin of Latin American business news, market reports and video which covers the mainstream media gap in business reporting in both Latin America and New Zealand.
Manning Group Advisory Board
AJ Hackett Bungy International & Manning Group Puerto Madero Development Project, Buenos Aires, Argentina
LATIN AMERICAN TRADE, POLITICAL & CULTURAL COMMENTARY
Editor & Columnist; Thomas Manning
New Zealand event MANAGEMENT
Latin American New Zealand Business Council 15th Anniversary Gala Luncheon for the Prime Minister of New Zealand The Right Honourable Sir John Key, Stamford Plaza Hotel, Auckland. Sir John Key above 2nd left greeting Dame Roseanne Meo DNZM OBE, Director NZ Forest Products, Television New Zealand, Mercury Energy, Sky TV, Ports of Auckland, and Baycorp. Event Director & Master of Ceremonies - Thomas Manning
L to R: His Excellency Isauro Torres Negri, Ambassador of Chile, Clare de Lore, Lady Mckinnon representing LANZBC Patron Rt. Hon. Sir Don McKinnon ONZ GCVO; Rt. Hon. John Sir John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Thomas Manning Vice President LANZBC; Clare Callow President LANZBC; Her Excellency Leonora Rueda, Ambassador of Mexico; His Excellency Ferndando Escalona, Ambassador of Argentina - Event Director Thomas Manning
LATIN AMERICAN event MANAGEMENT
Bungy Inventor AJ Hackett undertakes the first Heli-bungy in Latin America over Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires (top left) and toasts his success with Thomas Manning (top 2nd left). Event management - Manning Group Limited. Photos Courtesy 'La Nacion' - Buenos Aires Herald Interview.
Top right; Maria Isabel Sheraton Hotel New Zealand Lamb Festival - NZ Meat Board and Weddel Crown Corporation - Event Management Manning Group Limited
transpacific business tours
Transpacific Business Tours has a successful track-record of over 30 years in tour management in New Zealand and throughout Latin America with a focus on Delegations, Trade Missions & guided tours tailored for investors & business people in all sectors. |
GOVERNMENT & CORPORATE RELATIONS
Manning Group Limited's excellent working relationships with business, media, professional and government establishments in New Zealand and throughout Latin America help ensure Manning Group's clients achieve their desired outcomes. Government & Corporate Relations Archive |
'bad blood' - AUGUSTUS MAINWARING
Published by Manning Group Limited on behalf of Augustus Mainwaring Press
The author's opinions and themes in the 'Bad Blood' series are his alone and do not necessarily reflect those of Manning Group Limited
The author's opinions and themes in the 'Bad Blood' series are his alone and do not necessarily reflect those of Manning Group Limited
The much sought-after 'Bad Blood' series from the enigmatic New Zealand writer Sir Augustus Mainwaring Lynch Bt. 'Bad Blood' readers will be transported throughout Latin America on gut-wrenching journeys encompassing the full gamut of human relationships, unrequited love, horrendous violence and horrible betrayal. |