Let’s Hear It For The Girls! New Plymouth

We had an event filled weekend here at VnC!  The Let’s Hear It For The Girls expo took place in New Plymouth, as well as the George FM Spring Thing in Auckland and Spring Break 2011 in Napier.  It was great to meet all the loyal VnC fans throughout New Zealand.

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The talented team at BodyFX New Zealand showed off their extreme makeover skills over a few VnC Cocktails!  Check them out at www.bodyfx.co.nz to be transformed this Halloween.. if you dare! 

Receive 20% off your makeup artistry by printing & presenting the voucher below. 

UPDATE // NZ distributor, Federal*Geo

VnC Cocktails are excited to announce it has teamed up with renowned company, Federal*Geo, for its New Zealand distribution.

After experiencing fantastic growth globally due to outsourcing distribution, VnC have decided it a made sense to replicate the strategy here in New Zealand.

Shane McKillen, Managing Director of VnC Cocktails Ltd sees Federal*Geo as an ideal distribution partner for the brand,

“Their portfolio has grown from strength to strength, giving them excellent reach in the hospitality and retail trade. Together we can leverage the increased reach to extend the VnC brand profile across NZ and offer greater depth of support to our customer base.”

Aidin Dennis, Managing Director of Federal*Geo adds,

“VnC is a welcome addition to our growing multi-beverage portfolio. It is a well-established premium brand that has been innovative and has a unique position in the market. We look forward to seeing its continued growth.”

VnC’s award-winning cocktails are a unique ‘bartender in a bottle’ concept, designed by a bunch of innovative Kiwis who saw an opportunity to combine fresh, natural ingredients with New Zealand’s best quality vodka and premium tequila.

About VnC Cocktails
Award winning mixologists have developed the VnC range, which features only the finest 100% natural juices and more importantly, no artificial colours, preservatives or additives and pure New Zealand Vodka. VnC Cocktails’ range of other flavours currently includes – Strawberry Daiquiri, Banana Daiquiri, Pomegranate Cosmopolitan, Feijoa & Apple, Vodka Mojito, Pacific Mai Tai and Margarita. VnC Cocktails contain 13.9% alcohol and are available in more than a dozen countries around the world, and at liquor stores throughout New Zealand. 750ml – NZRRP$16.99, 200ml – NZRRP$4.95

http://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=78104

‘Little Ladies & Likely Lads’ Exhibition

Kiwi artist Anmea Hoskin invited us along to her ‘Little Ladies & Likely Lads’ art exhibition.  The collection features beautiful paintings & ceramic tiles based on vintage fashion illustrations from the 1950′s – 1970′s. 

You can check out Anmea’s funky collection at http://littleladies.co.nz/index.php/shop/ and read what being Naturally Spirited means to her at http://www.naturallyspirited.com/interview-artist-anmea-hoskin.

Norway’s Tick of Approval

Follow the link to check out the fantastic press we received in Norway recently (if you can read Norwegian that is!) http://www.adressa.no/kultur/vin/article1677840.ece

RWC: Showing the world what NZ is all about…

The idea all along was to make New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup about a whole lot more than the game itself. And that’s why the country is using the event to showcase itself, its people and its produce and products to the world.

Call it “Brand New Zealand” — the push over RWC‘s 45 days covers everything from the feast of cultural, tourism and business-related events which come under the banner of the Real New Zealand Festival to the promotions being planned by individual companies across the nation themselves.

A Reserve Bank study released in August predicted the RWC would inject NZ$700 million (397 million euros) into the local economy from tourist spending alone as visitors take in all the host country has to offer. There are an estimated 90,000 of them planning to make it to New Zealand for at least some part of the action while viewing figures are expected to top the four billion who tuned in for at least some part of the last RWC in France in 2007.

In terms of viewing figures that puts the RWC up there with the likes of the Olympics and football’s World Cup but just how much of the goodwill leads to New Zealand products being snapped up by consumers overseas is a much harder proposition to pin down.

“You can’t really be sure what the effect will be other than to know that never before have so many New Zealand businesses been given an opportunity to get out there internationally,” says NZTE’s Rugby World Cup project director Bruce Gadd. “We are all aware that rugby involves a lot of business that is done between people in the crowd and away from the games and that’s why there are so many social opportunities being presented to them.”

Among the larger organizations hoping to use the opportunities presented by the RWC is New Zealand Winegrowers, which represents an industry that throws NZ$1.5 billion (851 million euros) into the economy each year thanks predominantly to the international sales of its sauvignon blanc and pinot noir.

“New Zealand’s two greatest assets are its tourism and its produce,” says NZ Winegrowers’ CEO Philip Gregan. “Wine plays a vital role in our economy and in our exports and it will play a large role at the Rugby World Cup. People will come here to eat and to drink as well as to watch the rugby and we all have to make use of that fact.”

So for those lucky enough to be heading down to New Zealand next month, you can expect to see more than just the rugby on show.

“I’m not really sure the full extent of the opportunity being presented to New Zealand has been realized until very recently,” says RNZ 2011 CEO Martin Snedden. “But it is building right now, which is the perfect time.”

Those hoping to use the event to shed more international light on their products certainly agree.
“Anyone, in any business across New Zealand not leveraging themselves to be part of this event is mad. Simple as that,” says Cliff Walsh, production manager at VnC Manufacturing.

Walsh’s company produces ready-to-pour VnC Cocktails, marketed now globally from their Tauranga-based and he says the RWC is providing a once-in-a-marketing-lifetime chance for New Zealand businesses to sell themselves to the world.

“New Zealand Trade and Enterprise are giving companies a chance to show what they can do, a platform for us to be involved in this event not matter where our businesses are based,” says Walsh.

http://technology.xin.msn.com/home-entertainment/article.aspx?cp-documentid=5214337

Get your NZ Fashion Week fix!

Katherine Lowe snaps of all of the amazing things & people (our new 200ml bottle for example!) that NZ Fashion Week has to offer – http://nzfwisawesome.tumblr.com/post/9577573857/too-early.

twenty-seven names, NZ Fashion Week

Give Back Hollywood: VH1 Save the Music Benefit

We were at Give Back Hollywood’s, VH1 Save the Music Benefit.  Some of Hollywood’s biggest names including Kelly Rowland, Drake, Far East Movement, Cali Swag District, Big Boi and many more turned up for an afternoon of music and cocktails to help raise money for the non-profit organization.

Vanessa Simmons of “Run’s House” (left) and Tamar Braxton of “The Braxton Sisters” co-hosted the Hollywood Foundation’s benefit for VH1 Save the Music Foundation at L.A.’s SLS hotel.

Far East Movement (above).

Singer Luke James, Dancer Model Kimmie Gee, Kelly Rowland and Chris Grant (above). 

‘Teach me how to dougie’ singers Cali Swag District (above) showed their support.

Alleged Rocker Andrew W.K. (left) and Cherie Lily, a musician and fitness professional  (above).

The band Carolina Liar (above) worked with famed-producer Max Martin. 

We had an amazing time at HOMELANZ 2011!

HOMELANZ is the annual one-day event that showcases the food, beverage, culture and entertainment of Australia and New Zealand. The festival offers Australasian’s the chance to reminisce about home (over a cocktail or two!) and enables the local population the opportunity to sample a small piece of Australasia in West London, the heart of the Australasian Community.

Festival goers sipped on VnC Cocktails & partied to outstanding performances from Sneaky Sound System, Katchafire, Ladi6, Jayson Norris, Melic, TownHallSteps, Lotus Mason and many, many more… http://www.homelanz.co.uk/