The recent disaster in Christchurch has made a number of businesses in New Zealand ask the hard question - if faced with such an event - how would we cope?  Sadly, a number of Christchurch businesses will fail.  A survey in 2005 indicated that almost two-thirds of New Zealanders had no confidence in our disaster management services to be able to cope.  As a slient viewer of the constant news updates I think they have done an outstanding job.  Could we say the same of our businesses ability to respond and cope?

This key issue in the spotlight highlights the need to have strategies and mitigation procedures already established, ensuring the business is in a strong position to be able to cope or recover from the effects of these events.

BPX are proud to be associated with all things sport.  When the question was posed “what does the value of sports sponsorship mean to our business” by a local Sports Trust it made me sit down and consider the “why” and what did we expect in return…